DAY 42

OFFICAL COUNTDOWN TILL MY BIRTHDAY: 8 days
Since I like fruity desserts the best, don't get me wrong I love chocolate, but fruity ones are my favorite, I enjoyed making todays desserts just like yesterday. Were making Chocolate Tarlets and Mini Savarins in Passion fruit syrup (let's all say YUM!) We, as usual, started with the sweet pastry dough for the tartlets. Once we got those into the oven we went onto the batter for the mini savarins. We made the batter, put them into the molds and then into the oven. Once we got the oven things done went onto the stove top stuff. First we worked on the passionfruit syrup, since it would need a while to simmer on the stove. In this concoction consisted of passion fruits, orange juice, apricot glaze, sugar syrup, orange zest, lime zest, some vanilla, and star anise. While that was on the stove we also made the chocolate ganache, chocolate icing, and the vanilla ice cream. I think that if there wasn't a plastic cover of the the ice cream machine that there wouldn't be any left by the time that it had actually turned into ice cream there wouldn't be any left. The last thing that we made today was the poached cherries. For the poaching syrup, we take water, sugar, vanilla bean, cinnamon stick, and orange zest. After all this came to a boil we added the cherries, you see if we added them to early then there probably wouldn't be anything left by the time it was done. We then put the chocolate ganache in the tarts and put them into the fridge to harden into a solid mass. Then onto the fun part, putting all the parts together. But before we did all this we had our tea and coffee break. Afterwards, we started with the chocolate tart, and laddled the chocolate icing on tarts. Then did a design with the poached cherries put the tart on the plate, then put on some red sugar candy. Then took some cocoa bean nougatine left over from last week, and don't worry there still ok, they haven't gone bad or anything yet. After eating the chocolate goodness we got out the mini savarins and put a couple on a plate, well actually a bowl, well it was more like those bowls that are kinda flat, but not. Anyways, we then took the, now finished, passion fruit syrup and laddled some onto the mini savarins. Then for some color took some of the syrup from the poached cherries (minus the cherries) and drabbles a little bit around. For a last little touch put a scoop of ice cream and some sugared currants. Was a bit tired so went home and just played with the cats till dinner.

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