Weblog Entry - 12/07/2002: "Chocolate Centerpiece"

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12/07/2002 Entry: "Chocolate Centerpiece"

I’m so glad the week is over. We had another 9 hour session yesterday, ending with another Examen Blanc, this time making a chocolate centerpiece of our own design. I thought I was the only one nervous about this test, but my friend was telling us she couldn’t sleep because she kept thinking of her chocolate centerpiece. I was meditating in the morning in the hopes that some divine intervention would inspire me to create something impressive; but alas, 10 minutes into the test, and I still had no idea what I was doing. I just started tempering chocolate and went from there… I came up with this futuristic chocolate centerpiece.

Some Outer Space Thing with Chocolate
We also made a floral centerpiece using chocolat plastique (cocoa butter, icing sugar, white chocolate) and orange coloring earlier in the day. I was surprised because my chef actually thought it was pretty.

Chocolate Roses

--some chocolate hearts from the chef
--Chef Nicolas's gigantic centerpiece and other ideas