Two Tart Day!

Technically the second day back (we had a seminar about how to temper chocolate yesterday) and we had to make two tarts today in 2.5 hours.

It was rough because instead of 10 cooks in the kitchen, there are now 15 of us (though only 13 today). It was a gong show in there. I finished on time (phew!) with about 30 seconds to spare. I think considering how foggy my head is (I got wolloped with a big fat sore throat chest cold last week and am still living it out) I did a pretty good job.

The only thing wrong is that the passion fruit one (yellow) needed to be in the freezer longer before I glazed it (true) but otherwise everything was good and lovely. Sorry I didn't take a picture before the chef brushed the fruit deco aside to cut into them...but ah well, they have character now, all cut up, no?

We had to make one big and one little of each the passionfruit and raspberry tart (frozen jellied raspberry coulis sandwiched between 2 layers of passionfruit cream) and a strawberry black currant tart (almond cream with currants in it, baked...then pastry cream...strawberries on top...meh. Much less delicious than the passionfruit)...

I like how the small passion fruit one looked like a smiley face. Cute.