Week of Wonders

This week as I was in my school holidays, I spent 3 of the 5 days cooking and managed to knock over a fair amount of food while making a little bit of money on the way. My new business is getting off to a great start and I completed a few orders during the week, you can see the facebook page here or the instagram account here. I began the week by making a trial version of some blue blueberry macarons which I have been asked to make for a Jeans for Genes day fundraiser next month. I packaged them up into some small gift bags and gave them to family and friends, you can see the pictures on my last blog post. On Tuesday and Wednesday I baked and iced some cakes:

4-inch vanilla and Oreo cake

8-inch blueberry and vanilla cake

mini vanilla and Oreo cupcakes

4-inch vanilla cake
no photo :(

On the Wednesday, I used up the egg yolks which were left over from making the swiss meringue buttercream icing by making some vanilla bean ice cream which I was going to use on Friday.
On Friday I completed an order of macaron gift packs and the flavour was pink marshmallow.

Later in the day I made dessert of poached pears. I had been contemplating the concept for some time now and thought that when plated, looked very good, so I got to creating a dish for dessert and this was the final product.

It was raspberry poached pears along with shortbread crumble, homemade vanilla ice cream, almond praline and freeze dried raspberries. I was really pleased with the way the flavours came together because I had used components from many different recipes and brought them together to create a dessert which wasn't too bad. I was however disappointed with my ice cream quenelle but I suppose I will just have to keep practicing...

Blueberry

Today I trialed some blue macarons which I have been asked to make for Jeans for Genes Day morning tea next month. I thought I would try a new flavour and that was blueberry. I got the recipe from my Adriano Zumbo cookbook. The recipe was for Blueberry and Lavender however I chose to leave the lavender out and adapt the recipe that way because I haven't found anywhere that sells culinary lavender yet (although I must admit I haven't really looked). I was really pleased with the way they turned out and can't wait to make them again for such a good cause.