Marian,

Just out of curiosity, what tip are you using to ice the cupcakes? They look great!

Suesue; thanks for another great idea!! I’ve never tried making the praline sauce… it sounds delish!
Linzy and Amanda; thank you!

STUNNING!!! How did I miss this post??? Just amazing!!

@ suesue:
I like your thinking suesue, I love bread pudding, especially in the winter

Everything looks so professional and yummy!! Too funny-I thought of bread pudding too. Must be because it’s what I love when it’s cold out-nice and warm from the oven. Maybe a white chocolate one with praline sauce? Or a chocolate one dusted with confectioner’s sugar? Making me hungry!!

Lisa; I love Ina’s recipes; it’s true – they always turn out!

Linzy; Thanks so much for your bread pudding suggestion! We’ll start experimenting with recipes this semester, so we’ll begin with the b.pudding. We can’t use 180 ramekins, but will try the sheet pan and biscuit cutter. If you have any more ideas, I would LOVE to hear them!!

Thanks for the compliments as well, Lisa, Linzy and babskitchen!

Hi, M! I have been so busy lately (lots going on with my parents) that I haven’t had much chance to check in. Finally did tonight. Just wanted to say how really lovely your cabaret turned out. Wow, everyone did a fantastic job!

Hey Marian! An idea for next year…what about bread pudding? My favorite is when the raisins are exchanged for chocolate chips of course. But you could make large batches in full sheet pans, or even jelly roll pans and then use a biscuit cutter/large cookie cutter to create cute single servings. Then you could plate it with a browned butter vanilla bean sauce. Or if you had a ton of ramekins you could make them all individual, but I doubt a school would justify 180 ramekins hmm…I will think about some other ideas! By the way, I am so impressed with your class, we made microwaveable monkey bread in my cooking class, way to go Marian!
xox
Linzy

I am so inspired by what you did with your students. My first memories of baking began with my class in junior high. I never looked back. Thanks for what you do.

And Ina’s recipes always seem to be the best! She rocks!

Thanks Laci and Jenn!

Laci, I’ll get some more information about the recipes up in the next few days. For now I’ll just let you know that we played around with two brownie recipes, and the favorite was Barefoot Contessa’s! (Ina Garten’s recipe). I’ll post the coulis and vanilla sauce recipe here soon.

Here’s the Chocolate Decorating Technique DVD we watched to learn how to make chocolate cigarellos – it’s excellent! Ewald Notter (of the Ewald Notter School of Confectionary Art), published this choclatier video … it’s so inspiring and he shows so many chocolate techniques! We unfortunately ran out of time though and ended up purchasing the cigarellos from Qzina’s in Toronto.