Week 5 is our Midterm!
Wanting to do a "resurrection" theme for our Midterm, we planned on making a sugarwork phoenix, sitting on a pastillage base.
Unfortunately, it was disaster after disaster.
First: One of my teammates put the our colored sugar in the oven to warm it up to a workable consistency. Except he forgot about it. Alas, this was the result...
So he had to make new ones, which took up some time. I was busy making our truffle filling the entire time. But finally he got our sugarwork done on Day 1.
We let it set up overnight. The next day, we carefully assembled everything together.
It turned out pretty cool! Then a few minutes later, the same guy who melted the sugar toppled it over and broke it...
And if that wasn't enough, the chocolate that he tempered wouldn't set. I'm guessing it was contaminated with other stuff. We were running out of time, so we had no choice but to use that to dip the truffles.
Even after an hour, they were still not set. At least they tasted good. I had to roll them in cocoa powder so I can take them home without making too much of a mess.
And we still managed to put everything together. But I think everything worked well with our theme of resurrection--the phoenix was "born", died, and then came back to life (albeit with disheveled feathers).
Hopefully we'll do better for our final...
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