Happy Birthday Chef Bocuse!

during my schooling, i had the amazing opportunity of helping decorate Chef Paul Bocuse’s 87th birthday cake. He would be celebrating it at the Culinary Institute of America at the dedication of The Bocuse Restaurant (where i would later have my final class). It was a 5-tier styrofoam monster, but it was such a great experience for me!

covering the cake in Tiffany blue fondant

gumpaste cheese!!

gumpaste grapes before…

gumpaste grapes and apples (pre-final coloring)

the “Bocuse” rose

the finished cake as presented to Chef Bocuse

me with the cake on display at the Student Rec Center

The Bocuse Restaurant

for my final class at the CIA i worked at their new restaurant, Bocuse, on the pastry line plating desserts. here are a few pictures of the desserts i worked on:

canales

chocolate sensation

gateaux exotic

strawberry vacherin

goat cheesecake with baumkuchen center

mulled wine “soup”