Erin and Wally's Engagement Cake

I was asked to make a cake for my cousins engagement. They wanted a 3 tier cake with bright colors. I used a few techniques I learned from the Wilton flower classes, and some from a new gumpaste flower book i recently purchased.

Beach Bridal Shower Cake

This cake was made for a beach themed bridal shower. The palm tree's are pretzel rods with gum paste leaves, the seashells, wedding ring, and fish are a mix of white chocolate and milk chocolate, and the crabs are fondant.  It's a bit cutesy, but thats what I have fun doing.

Wilton Cake Class

I recently took 2 Wilton cake courses at Michael's Craft Store. Both were 2 hour session, once a week for four weeks. The first class was basic cake decorating, which consisted of making icing, icing the cakes, piping borders, buttercream roses and other simple designs. The second class was gumpaste and fondant, where we learned how to make a number of different flowers, cover cakes in fondant, and quite a few different decorating techniques. I had a great time taking these classes, and I plan on taking the other courses they have to offer in the future.

France!

This spring I was in France for 5 weeks. The first 4 weeks I was in a town in the south of France, Cap D'Agde and it was probably the best experience of my life so far. The last week I spent in Paris. It was an amazing learning  experience and just an overall great time. I love France, and I cant wait to go back. I have alot of pictures, I figured I would post some of the best, the rest are on my facebook page.

Cakes, Cakes, Cakes

The title is pretty self explanatory right? Cakes from birthdays to babyshowers and graduations.

Avatar Cake

So, my boyfriends sister is a fan of the Nickelodeon show Avatar so I made this cake for her birthday. The fondant is just marbled blue to look like the sky, Ang is made from fondant, and the blue and white circles around the border are just white chocolate candy melts.

Culinary School

Culinary School

So here is some work from when I was in culinary school in New York. I graduated from the French Culinary Institute, it was amazing.

First Blog

Hello all! Welcome to my blog! My name is Jess and I am a pastry cook. I graduated culinary school in the spring of 07 , but I have been having fun in the kitchen since I was about 14. I love to cook for friends, family, anyone that will try my food really. I wanted to get this blog to show some of my work, trade recipes and techniques with others, and just for fun really. Over the next few weeks i'll be posting pictures and more blogs so check back in soon and I hope you like it!

Jess