Speaking of Amazing... This Quarter!

Im half way through my third quarter and I have learned and achieved so much at Sullivan University! Including becoming one of your new Sullivan University Student Ambassadors! As part of my first blog post I thought I would show some of the baking items that my instructor, the wonderful Chef Woolums taught us so far this quarter. 

This is a carrot cake with an amazing cream cheese frosting and masked sides of coconut and nuts. This  was our first cake we did and it is still one of my top favorite things we've done.

Beer Cheesecake, and yes it was amazing especially when you paired it with that amazing pool of chocolate ganache! Or the Raspberry Coulis (Sauce) we also had that day. Also we learned how to do that super pretty plate painting with the sauce. 

To close this up I want to tell you about Cupcake Wars, used as part of a teaching exercise to get students to use team work to come up with their own creation cupcake using the knowledge they have gained about cakes and toppings. My team did a baked alaska cupcake filled with carmel, vanilla ice-cream and our surprise ingredient presented to us at the start of the war, Whoppers! We topped it off with an italian meringue. 






My name is Alexandra Cruikshank and I hope this got all of you future baking and culinary students coming to Sullivan pumped for when you start! 
                                                                                                                                     -Alexandra