A Sweet Sunday Surprise!

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

I'm a big fan of the blog Cake Wrecks. The blog focuses on hilariously hideous professional cakes gone wrong. Ugly decorations, weird airbrushing, strange spelling mistakes... it's all there, and it's all so, so funny. It is everything I (as a professional baker) aspire not to be!

Every Sunday, though, Jen (the bloggeress), runs a feature called "Sweet

Random Updates

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

I realized I have some random little tidbits that I keep forgetting to tack onto other blog posts.

I'm very excited to tell you that I have finished up my externship hours (as far as the school is concerned), all my paperwork [...]

Blog Award and a Question

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

So, while I was on vacation, I received an award from Blonde Duck over at A Duck in Her Pond. She's really fabulous and if you haven't been to her blog before, go- she's funny, adventurous, a wonderful writer, and have I mentioned she's funny? In addition to quirky food posts, she also posts original short stories that are real page turners... or would be if computers had pages you could turn. I was so flattered that she'd think of little ol' me to give an award!

Showing Off a Little

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

I just finished my very last kitchen class of pastry school! I'm obviously excited, as it means I'm almost done with school, but it's a little bittersweet because the kitchen classes are the best part of school. All I have left are some classroom classes- cost control, computers, a wine class amongst others. I do have a three week break from classes in September, as some of my credits from my BFA transferred and I don't have to take English.
I thoug [...]

Pour Some Sugar on Me

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Well, last week while the site was down, I had my final week of chocolate and sugar class. We were on the sugar module, which was a very different experience. I've made edible sugar- candies, caramel, spun sugar, but this was structural sugar. This was [...]

To the Moon!

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Recently at pastry school, I've been in a chocolate and sugar class. It was divided into two sections, chocolate and sugar. (You probably could have guessed that...) We just finished the chocolate section Wednesday, which ended with a final project- a chocolate centerpiece. I' [...]

Oh, I Know I'm a Tease!

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Last night was perhaps the most glorious night of my pastry school career... We made marshmallows. I have to, perhaps, explain my deep, passionate love of marshmallows. As far as I am concerned, marshmallows are a tangible manifestation of joy, goodness and light. And I'm just talkin' about store-bought Stay-Puft type marshmallows... Homemade marshmallows, I learned last night, will turn your world around and will change your life. Maybe I'm being over-dramatic, maybe I'm [...]

A Wedding Cake for the Bride of Dracula

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

For the past three weeks, I've been in an advanced cakes class at culinary school. It's been quite an enjoyable class, except for this week, when I was freaking out about [...]

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