Choux Pastry Star Bakers – Richelle, Raphael Natasha and Tara
Well done to Richelle, Raphael Natasha and Tara, who were awarded Star baker award this week, for collaborating to make a giant mountain of profit oles in Sweet Indulgence .They worked really well together to work out the most efficient system for preparing and shaping the batter, baking and filling and building the profiteroles and they were very pleased with their achievement. Many members of staff were also very pleased as they got to sample the delights after school.
Cupcake Wars – Star Bakers, Brita, Chris and Yu
Cupcake Wars is back and the theme is celebration, in preparation for the IS 50th anniversary block party. There were some spectacular;art looking cupcakes and it was hard to decide on the best, but Brita (11F) won star backer for her excellent fondant work, Chris (11D) for creative design in a glass with pick a mix at the bottom and Yu (11R) for the amazing flavour.
Complete Deelite Advanced Piping Skills class – Star Baker Chris and Natalie
This week the Sweet Indulgence class visited Complete Deelite to do the Advanced Piping skills workshop. This involved being shown how to make professional standard cakes and do a crumb coasting, before being shown lots of different piping techniques, before being let loose with their own cakes and an array of colours of butter cream and piping tips. The student then had 1 hour to create their on decorated cake masterpiece .
As you can see the student were in the zone and the results were fantastic
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Well done to Chris and Chris and Natalie who were awarded the star bakers by the the two instructors, for the best designed cakes with the highest level of skill
Puff pastry challenge – Star bakers, Krishna and Chris
Well done to Chris (11D) and Krishna (11R), who were awarded Star baker in Sweet Indulgence this week for their amazing Mielle Feuille, that they produced in the Puff Pastry Challenge. Chris product could grace any bakery and Krishna presentation dessert was stunning.
Enriched Dough Week
This week in Sweet Indulgence the students learnt more about the science of bread making, whilst making some superb breads, doughnuts, and Churros . The Star Bakers award went to Oscar (11E) and Jennifer (11F), who both made creative and perfectly formed ring doughnuts
Star Baker in Biscuit Week – Mallika and Natasha
Well done Mallika (11F) and Natasha (10E) who were awarded Star baker in biscuit week, as they successfully managed to make a uniform batch of shop ready biscuits. Natasha made melt in your mouth coconut biscuits with pineapple filling and Mallika made amazing jJammy Dodgers.
Star Baker in Cake week – Natalie Leung (11W)
Well done to Natalie in 11W who was this week’s Star Baker in Sweet Indulgence lesson on Sponge cakes. She decided to link in last weeks chocolate lesson in making the most amazing cake, that could be sold at any luxury bakery. It was almost too good to eat.
Chocolate Week – Star bakers Liana and Jordan
Well done to Liana and Jordan , who were awarded star bakers , in week 3 of Sweet indulgence for their collaboration in making amazing caramel filled chocolates. They challenged themselves and used knowledge from the previous week by making perfect caramel in stead of buying ready made and tempered the chocolate to perfection.
Star baker – Brita Cheng in confectionery week
Well done to Brita who was awarded Star baker in sweet Indulgence this week for the high level of challenge she set herself. She decide to attempt making pulled hard candy and even brought in her own heat proof gloves and mat and the her end product was perfect.
