I'm working on a new project based on cute little pops I encountered on a recent trip to Mexico. It's something that I've really seen here in the US yet and that's why I'm being a little vague about what exactly these "pops" look like. So the main decorative component is sanding sugar. I volunteered to make some of these pops for a friend's son's birthday party next weekend and I need red sanding sugar and allot of it! I tried making my own and it didn't work out so well so I guess I'll have to give in and just go and buy some!
On another note this past Thursday was the 1st day that we actually got to bake in my Quantity Baking Class and well....I didn't do so great. We made Jaconde sponge which is made with almond flour and powdered sugar and the Chef had us warm up all the dry ingredients and the eggs in the mixing bowl directly on the stove. Everything seemed fine until it started to smell really "nutty" he thought someone was burning the eggs. Well when I poured the mixture out into a bowl I realized that "nutty" smell was coming from MY bowl!! I could tell there was stuff stuck to the bottom but not how bad it really was, but when I went to rinse out the mixing bowl I saw there was charred black gunk at the bottom and no matter how hard I scrubbed it took a good 10 minutes before it all came loose and I could finally get the bowl back to it's normal state of cleanliness! So needless to say that I the one with actual hotel baking experience did not make such a great 1st impression. At least I have 14 more weeks to redeem myself!!
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