Zebra cake

This cake is truly a freak of nature. Follow me closely here folks: On the bottom is ladyfingers. On the side is a combo of chocolate cigarette paste and Jaconde biscuit cake in a wacky zebra-like pattern. Then inside the cake the layers go like this: Blood orange syrup imbibes the ladyfingers, white chocolate mousse on top of that, flourless chocolate cake layer, blood orange mousse, glazing, decoration. Who the hell thought this combination was a good idea? Two kinds of biscuit-y eggy cake, two weird, polar-opposite-flavored mousses, a flourless chocolate cake layer? BARF! I didn't even pretend to taste this cake. The blood orange mousse was tasty, but I have no interest in the combination of flavors they lined up for us.

Today was tough. That's a lot of things to make in 2.5 hours. Especially when you overwhip your cream and have to add more and then rescale, and you overcook your creme anglaise becuase your electric burner is too hot and you can't do anything to cool it down. Chef got pissed because my piping was so ugly. I didn't plan on it being that bad, but the chocolate was too cold and it wouldn't stick to the glazing on the cake...so it was a bit Halloween-y. Not my prettiest piping, as you can see...need to buy some chocolate chips and practice some more this weekend...right after I move.

Plus we were all super tired today because we had a plated dessert class this morning. I didn't take pics because it was crazy. There are 15 of us in that kitchen and there just is not room to do the things you need to do cleanly. So the plated desserts didn't turn out as nicely as we wanted them to. Plus Chef had made the caramel ice cream for us and some asshole left it on the counter for 30 minutes so when the rest of us got to it it was soup. Genius. There's one girl in our class who is a selfish hoarding bitch. She hoards fruit and supplies and doesn't speak up when people call out asking for it. So some of us go without say, strawberries, or have to use rotten ones, and she has a ton of it "just in case" in her fridge. The ice cream sat in front of her for those 30 minutes. I'm not saying that she put it there, but it would have been nice of her to put it in the freezer for others. I'm just sayin'...a little help here.