#bread diary

The First Judgement

Today, we had a self-assessment, means no guidance and we have to do it all ourselves with no hint and tips, and so we did our best.

At first, we were given the ingredient and thEY GAVE US MARGARINE AGAIN. I know the instructor must be right that there wont be problem, but thats not the case since a lot if group is having a problem because of the ingredient, but I dont want to deal with it again, so our group decided to buy actual butter in our own expense.

And I was right!

After using the butter as ingredient our frosting looks a lot more like... frosting, no issue whatsoever, though I wanna know for someone who knows baking if I am actually right to use butter instead of margarine for this. But ye, all in all were not having anymore problem, though our design is kinda.. bit messy? or lacks presentation, eitherway, we succeed, we passed and enjoyed this moment.

One came out flat, the other rose so well!!

The top of the good rise has a bit of char on it to add texture but it isn’t burnt at all.

The inside of the flat one is soft with some good pockets. The sour flavor is very good.

A new week and also the last week.. honestly I dont think the days were fast, feels slow a bit. Today, we got Chiffon cake for preparation of cake making in the following day, then after that were gonna have self-assessment day, means no guide so were on our own. Not like its much of an issue since most of it are easy to follow.

Today is quite easy, same as yesterday's cookie, chocolate chip cookie. I say it is really easy to do and I wanted to make this at home! Some of the chips on the cookie sank to the bottom before it was being baked, so we made on a separate pan that had to put the chips manually on top so the result was there.

Also, I had to make the bigger one from the extras, and it do really big ahaha

We finally started the Bread and Pastry Production training, we started off with simple Soft roll.

It the new week, means more training days ahead! Right now were still baking Soft Roll, but they let us do anything to give it a little extra.

I present to ye, Soft roll with butter cream on top and some cheese, supposed to call it "Ensaymada" but the bread is different. Though to be honest, we kind of overbaked it a bit so its a bit brown-ish... but hEY! Practice makes perfect, and were still satisfied regardless! <3

Today is Pie day! The pie for today is called Buko Pie, or Coconut Pie. Quite the struggle making this tbh because of flattening process to make it work and often times breaking off, in the end it went pretty alright, the instructor told us its cooked, but the dough on the bottom is still somewhat undercooked.

I am somewhat believing that its the problem with our oven that cant control the heat really well or the thermometer is kind of not working properly, because were baking them way too quickly than the instructed time (Ours baked for 35 mins, while the instruction says 45 min-1 hr)

Uh... So this is the day where I have been stressing out, cause were haning hard time to make the frosting right of the cake cause apparently they gave us wrong ingredient of using margarine instead pf butter, making the frosting more melted and wont stay on the cake itself. and even after that we somehow messed the frosting so bad it looked ugly XD