Okay, I've waited long enough and nagged long enough. I am now high jacking this blog!!! Hi, I'm Linda, Sam's wife. I really enjoyed this blog and I hope you did too, but it is apparent the motivation to keep this up is gone. And since I am much better at bragging about Sam then he is, I thought I would try my hand at blogging. I will slowing fill you in on what projects Sam did in that last semester of school and what he has done since. But I want to start by sharing my favorite. This is Sam's final project for Plated Dessert class. I love it because it is completely original. I have always told Sam that he has the greatest ideas, and projects like these prove it. He thought this all up himself and how to execute it and it turned out beautifully. Well, I hope the new tone isn't too strange for you and I'll see you in more posts later.

I know it's been a long time since my last post, school is half over and I feel like my head is in a whirl. This semester I have plated desserts and the art of pastry, which means I make a lot of very sugary sweet things like pies and cookies along with cheese cake, Panna-Cotta and Creme Brulee.

Today I had the pastry class and we made Éclairs and Cream puffs



This is the cake I made for my grandmother for her 80th birthday. I love her, what a great lady.

This is the cake that we made at the bakery that I'm interning at, it was a joint effort getting it decorated. I did all the whipped cream frosting and made it all square and nice looking and we both worked on the fruit arrangement. It is a white chiffon cake with two layers of Raspberry filling and Frosted as you can see with whip cream and fruit. We coated the fruit with an apricot glaze to help keep the fruit from browning, this is the final product.

Since school has stopped a lot has happened. I got approved for an internship with a very good friend that I meet at school. Things are continuing to look up, My boss is trying to move her bakery into her home so we have been doing a lot of plumbing and things like that to try and get her kitchen ready to be inspected for commercial use. We are still baking and filling orders when they come in at the old kitchen. We made a blue and white Penn State cake for someone that got accepted there. We have two more cakes to do this week along with hanging doors and cleaning up equipment. I thought I was getting out of construction, I guess it's good I like working with my hands.

These are my grades that I got this semester they are as follows A,A,B,A,B

We made a cheese cake today before our final it's really good.


This is the cake I decorated for my final. We had an hour and a half to decorate. we had to make three roses and do some writing or printing. I got a 98 on it. this is one of the better pictures of it but I don't think pictures do it justice.



Last week we made Boston cream pie and German Chocolate cake and a Chiffon layer cake.

In our class on Wednesday we decorated some cakes for Easter this Sunday. We didn't do any baking which is that part that I like but that's Ok with me too. We decorated pound cakes in the shape of lambs. We decorated cup cakes to look like Easter Baskets and put flowers on chocolate covered egg cakes.

The nose got smashed against the box on the way home.