6/1/12 Jessica's Finally Cupcakes

These cupacakes were one of the easier things that I have made.

After not being about to make the cake because of the difficulties of using modeling chocolate I resorted to making individual cupcakes with chocolate horse, a barrel of hay, and green frosting piped to the cupcake to look like grass.

Piping grass is quite simple, all you have to do is squirt small bits of grass evenly so that you cant see any of the cupcake underneath:

 Making the chocolate horse is simple too. All you do is make one drawing and put it under the wax paper and trace the outline and fill in the drawing with the chocolate in a plastic bag.  After you put it in the fridge and wait about 2 hours and then you can easily peal the chocolate off the wax paper:

THE FINAL PROJECT!!!!!!:

5/16/12 Nutella Cupcakes

Today I decided to make these delicious Nutella Cupcakes.  This was my first time carving out the middle of a cupcake and putting in chocolate ganache for a filling.  This cupcake included putting Ferrero Rocher on top crushed up on top of melts chocolate as a frosting on top of the chocolate cupcake.  Essentially this is a chocolate lovers cupcake.

5/12/12 Ithaca Bakery

After quiting Papa John's I was quickly on the job hunt again.  With help form my mother, I recently got a job at the Ithaca Bakery Catering Company.  After getting a full tour of the kitchen at the Ithaca Bakery I was amazed at all of the wonderful equipment that put this operation together.  Earlier in my project I had a post about different prices at B&W Supply for all the necessary components for operating a bakery.  At the Ithaca Bakery they had huge mixers, bigger than the 60 gallon ones I had earlier researched, and it was really cool too how smoothly they whole operation ran, making hundreds of cookies, pastries, and cakes a day.

5/10/12 New Findings

Today after school I decided to go to Michael's to find some new baking tools.  There were so many interesting baking tools to try out!  A lot of them I have seen on television on Cake Boss but have never had a chance to try out in my own kitchen.  So many of them were either too big or expensive for this small project but would be something I would invest in if I ever made my own business.  But, finally I found the perfect thing to accent all my butter cream flowers.  It is called Sparkle Dust, it is a very thin powder that you can can apply to the butter cream flowers with a paintbrush and a small bit of water.  It had dimensions and makes the flowers look so real.