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Pear Cake for a wedding

This is Pear Cake that I made for a wedding today. I made a hundred of them, and delivered to a location. It took me a good time to get ready to make this cake since I didn't have a flame to make cakes like this big, and my fridge is not so big too keep that much cakes. I tested few times which version of pear cake is the best for this wedding. Today, I carefully cut them, glazed them, and most importantly, very carefully delivered them with two big sheet trays of very delicate cakes to the location. When I got there, all the people preparing the party was in the cranky mood(I don't know those people...), and they didn't care if the cake I brought is staying in fridge or standing out in the room temperature. They were not helpful at all. That made me very sad and I was very discouraged about what I have done to those cakes. I know that those people don't care about my work as much as I do. That is fine. I guess I wasn't just prepared to have the situation. It is all good lesson. I am not going to change the way I care about what I do. That is for sure. I just need to learn from today that I should expect that situation like this can happen....... Does anyone have similar experiences?

Another try...

This is my second test for the pear cake...
This time, there is pear sauce layer in between the biscuits. It was good...

A test baking

For my cake baking for next week, I did test baking this week.

It is pear william cake. The mousse in the middle has Italian Meringue in addition to regular mousse ingredients. It is very airy and yummy.

Big cupcake !

Last week, I went to a birthday party of my friend. A friend of his baked a giant cupcake for him! I thought it is so cute.

Blue party, Blue cake

After having dinner with my friend at Nyonya on Grand street, (http://www.penangusa.com/location_nyonya_grand.html) we went to a birthday party. This party, theme was BLUE. Every body was wearing blue dress. I took a picture of blue cake, off course!!

A party with good friends

A friend of mine came from Japan to visit.
She brought all the fun people with her.
We had a party together a day before they leave to Japan. It was such a fun time.
Here is one of desserts her friend made. Bread pudding with chantilly and vanilla ice cream.

A gallery opening

On every Thursday, there are something going on around Chelsea area, usually gallery openings.
Today, we found something very interesting.

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A demo at FCI

I attended a demo today about desserts with VALRHONA's new chocolate lines. Class was very fun and so many tastings.
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A birthday cake.

I made this cake for my friend's birthday.

When I just started pastry, my dream was making cakes for friend's special occasion. I still haven't done wedding cake yet, but did cake like above couple times.

Making cakes for friends or someone I know makes me so happy.

I remember when I was little, I always liked to add personal touch to everything make. I liked the feeling of being unique (in the good way....). 

The cake consists of Walnut Biscuit, Light Ganache, Biscuit Chocolat, and Coffee Butter cream.

macaron!

After learning Spanish, I finally made Macaron.

I am so glad that it came out well!