Last Monday on Pastry class we tackled the base of all cake bases – the sponge cake. As it’s so boring on it’s own we also learned to make Créme anglaise and then turn it into Vanilla ice-cream and made some “cigarettes” cookies.
Ingredients for today, had a lot of eggs
Getting our station ready in the mise en place
Butter the mold
Then flour
The hard part of the day was to beat the eggs over a bain marrie until it gets white. It took so much time, and my hand got very soar. We gotta know how to make everything manually
Chef makes it look easy
Turned white-yellowish
OMG it was so hard!
Folding in the the flour
To the mold and to the oven
In the meantime -créme anglaise starts with egg yolks, six of them
Half cream and half milk boiling with a vanilla pod
Adding the boiling milk to the beaten yolks and sugar bit by bit and then return to the stove, mix thoroughly
I tried to be fast this class and be one of the firsts for a change, what made me do this first, chef says it's overcooked. hmmm... The punishment of pretense
After baked, the cake has to be pulled from it's mold, keep upside-down to chill out
Always good to put some powder sugar
For the cigarettes, whisking butter until creamy and not seperating
We screen the powdered sugar
To be mixed with the butter
Mixed
Egg whites added
It's notmal to have this weird texture
Pass the flour
Pouring the flour and not whisking, just fold in to keep the soft texture
Ready to be molded into cookies
Preparing the pear to decorate
In a pot with sugar
After caramelized
Cut to a fan
Drip the cigarette dough to a baking paper
Slam it to get a flat circles
With a plastic mold doing some flower shaped
To the oven
When still hot it can be shaped to a cigarette shapes or a little bowl
Half of our créme anglaise went to the ice-cream maker to make a beautiful vanilla ice-cream
Chef crazy about plating
Chef's second plate
My plate, including everything!
Ice-cream melting away makes it hard to present and plate
Close up
I loved the cigarettes, the créme anglaise (overcooked was so tasty anyways) and the ice-cream was phenomenal but the sponge cake is just a sponge cake.
האגס הכי מתאים לי אבל הכל מוציא לי את כל הריר
Savta Jean better not hear you call a sponge cake JUST a sponge cake!
It sucks that you can’t use an electrical mixer! Maybe I won’t come on a Monday…. 🙂
Gotta say that Safta’s sponge cake with a bit of orange and sugar is so much better than this one. I don’t know how she does that. About the mixer, it make sense, think that in order to get a diploma in cooking one has to be able to make everything from scratch, even all the whisking creams and doughs etc. Like learning to drive with gir and then driving on an automatic car. After learning the basics we can use whatever we need.
great plating – looks yumi!!!
I liked your plating very much too!!
Until the end of the post that I saw the pictures, I couldn’t guess what you were going to do with that cigarette cookies..
Actually it was a free design we could use the cookies for the plating how ever we wanted to. Glad you liked it, Thanks!