French Cakes
French cakes are very different than what we usually make in the USA - they are more often much lighter, made with fluffy layersof cake or cookie-like “biscuits” such as génoise, joconde, daquoise or cuillère, and usually contain creams that are lightened (in texture, not in calories) by whipped cream or egg white, and stabilized with gelatin.
Stephen F Austin State University - Kitchen Lab
1936 North Street
Nacogdoches, TX 75962
Friday, December 11 · 1-4pm - Click to Book
Fraisier - Strawberry Sponge Cake
Chocolate Mousse Entremet
In this class we will make small individual fraisiers, a classic strawberry cream cake made with crème diplomate and gènoise, and a chocolate entremet featuring a decadent chocolate mousse on top of a crunchy feuilletine layer and a biscuit dacquoise . Believe me, a new world of desserts will open up to you!
Price: $99
Monday, December 14 · 6-9pm - Click to Book
Raspberry Pistachio Charlotte
Pain d’epices
Join Chef Justin making a Raspberry Pistachio Charlotte, a light raspberry mousse wrapped in a wall of airy red and green lady fingers (biscuit cuillère) as well as the traditional holiday Pain d’Epice, which literally translates to “Bread of Spices” - a dense, moist loaf cake made with a mixture of flours (wheat, buckwheat, rye and almond), jam (usually orange marmalade or fig) or honey, and holiday spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, etc. It’s basically the grandfather of our gingerbread and it smells like Christmas!
Price: $99
tuesday, December 15 · 6-9pm - Click to Book
Exotique fruit Pavlova
opera
Have you ever went a long concert or theatre production and became a bit tired and sleepy halfway through? The Opera cake was invented just for that reason, in 1960 by the famous French Pastry Chef Gaston LeNôtre and is a cake of thin layers of espresso infused joconde cake, chocolate ganache and coffee buttercream. Just one bite and you will wake up and say “Ooo-la-la”!
In this class we will also make a pavlova, a light, crispy meringue filled with mascarpone chantilly cream and exotic fruit such as mango, passion fruit and pineapple.
Price: $99