12.4.11

Stations

Last week we started our "station" groups where we are assigned into one of four groups of four peers. We are now to work solo and create at minimum two products a day. This may seem easy but considering the fillings and doughs which are to be made, it is a good amount of work. So last week I was assigned to cookies. It was crazy on the first day but then you really get into time management and it ended up being really fun. I made two versions of chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter, fruit bars, brownies, apple squares, diamond, snicker doodle, date squares and sand (spritz).

This week I'm on puff pastry. So far it has gone smooth, and getting more practice at making the classic puff dough is great. So far I made some turn overs, palm leaves and sausage rolls; this on top of two fillings and two doughs, it has been busy. Hopefully i can get more than four products out tomorrow but we shall see...

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Mmmmmmm......
Do you use a rolling pin or a sheeter for your puff pastry?

Marco said...

we use both. The sheeter speeds up the process of rolling it to a certain point but we get the dimensions with a pin. We also use the pin to roll in the butter and folds.