Week 13 Raspberry White Chocolate Gateau

This was a confusing day in class. There were too many people in the class and at times, I didn't even know what I was doing. 

First off we made jaconde, which is actually a component of a cake that we will be baking the following week. 

When I read the recipe the night before class, I couldn't understand how it was made. How did they get the brown stripes to stay separated from the white? The next day, our trainer showed us how it was made. Ah.... seeing how it is done is much better than reading the long winded recipe.

Basically, the brown stripes are made of a paste consisting of equal portions of butter, icing sugar, egg white and flour. In this case, some part of the flour is replaced with cocoa powder in order to get the brown colour. 

It was a thick paste that we then spread on a baking paper and made designs with a comb. 

Then the tray was put in the fridge while we prepare the jaconde batter. The jaconde batter was like a sponge batter really. Then we pour the batter over the brown stripes and tried to spread it evenly. Then it went straight into the oven for only about 7 minutes. 

After that we wrapped it up and froze it for next week. 

Jaconde

The next one was a Raspberry White Chocolate Gateau. Honestly, I don't remember the whole process of making this mousse. I remember that the mousse took a long time to set. I remember we made the chocolate designs with a transfer sheet. The peacock design is actually a piece of transfer sheet, where the white chocolate is poured over it and let to set. Then a plastic layer is removed and the design sticks on the chocolate. 

Raspberry Couli was poured on top of the mousse. 

I wanted to make the sides to have uneven heights of chocolate tiles but it looked better in my imagination than the actual end result. 

Raspberry White Chocolate Mousse Gateau

The last was a citrus bundt cake. I didn't like this cake. It didn't have much lemon flavour to it, the cake was dense and way too sweet. The only lemony flavour that I could get was from the lemon icing that we drizzled on top. 

Overall it wasn't a very good day. The cakes didn't look very nice, didn't taste very nice and I didn't feel like I learnt much.