Showpieces

Chocolate is the new cakes, i.e. the new thing I don’t like to do or talk about. I have a feeling sugar work is the new chocolate, but I’ll report back next week.

Just like my Irish ancestors, I’m a worker horse. There’s not much finesse in me (shock!) as there is power. I can’t help it! I’m not an artist, I’m a production worker. I’d rather crank out 25 pies, 25 loaves of bread, and a dozen different muffins in half a day than spend a week constructing a chocolate sculpture that no one gets to enjoy (except visually, but who wants that?) …

I’m a people pleaser! The main reason I love to cook and bake is to please the immediate audience. I like to see people smile when they bite into something I made, not stare at a chocolate statue and oooh and ahh. Screw that. Give me manual labor and throwing things in and out of the oven any day.

Today concluded our chocolate unit for level 2. Our written test is tomorrow (which I have not even begun to start thinking about), and our 2-day sculpture piece was due today. Mine didn’t turn out half as bad as I thought it would, so I can’t complain, but let’s just say I don’t think I can smell, taste or look at chocolate for a while.