Week 9
Only two weeks before the quarter is over! Next week, on Week 10, we'll be making the components for our final tortes. We drew a lottery to determine which tortes each of us will be making. I got the White Chocolate Mousse w/Raspberry. That was one torte I haven't taken home to my parents, so I was OK with it...at the same time, I'm not a big fan of white chocolate. I was really hoping to get the Whiskey Hazelnut Mousse...
But here are the pics from Week 9. We ended up making two finished tortes and 1 plated dessert.
Raspberry Creme Brulee Macaron. The creme brulee here actually isn't baked, but set with gelatin. The addition of cake flour to the batter made the macaron more stable and cake-like. Even Mom, who doesn't like macarons a whole lot, liked this torte.
Empress Torte. Layers of raspberry mousseline, lime curd, and almond biscuit. Decorated with white chocolate planks. Finally, I figured out how to properly temper chocolates... for now...
For our desserts, we plated the Chocolate Mousse with Sweet Risotto. The risotto is basically a rice pudding flavored with citrus and vanilla. Quite tasty while warm, but once chilled....
...proved to be a formidable dessert layer. This is our group's plating, but we could not put a fork through this thing. We ended up wrestling with the cake, and turned it into a goopy chocolate mess.
Here are other group's plating.
Here are other group's plating.
Next week: the Final!!
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