Buy me a Spaceship and Fly

The subject of today’s class was tarte. To make a delicious pie crust, our teacher put in the same portion of cake flour and butter so I had a really tough time fitting the pie crust into the tarte mold.

The crust was so loose that I had to sprinkle huge amount of flour to prevent it from sticking to the board, and eventually the tarte ended up becoming hard. I wouldn’t have gone through so much trouble if I had added enough flour in the first place!

This chocolate tarte is the finished product after all that fuss. It’s sprinkled heavily with cocoa powder so when you bite into it, the cocoa powder gets all on your teeth but it was so sweet and delicious.

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This is a banana walnut tarte. It’s filled with banana boiled down in caramel syrup and decorated with walnuts on top. It’s so~~ good.

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I never imagined that banana and walnuts would go so well together.

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This is cream puffs pie. On the edge of the pie crust, I’ve squeezed out the choux paste, filled it with custard and topped it with whipped cream. The savoriness of the pie and the cream puffs and the sweetness of the cream make a fabulous combination and it was so delicious!

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This is the mini version of the cream puffs pie made with leftover crust. They look like spaceships, don’t you think? :) In Japan, people buy lot more of the individual pieces as to a whole cake.

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I’ve made a simple cake in a long time. It’s layered with whipped cream and chocolate cream between the sponges and then the surface is coated with caramel. It’s simple to make but totally delicious.

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Look at the layer. Isn’t it luscious?

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This is a blueberry cake with lots of blueberry jam in it.

On the bottom layer are apples boiled down in sugar so it’s refreshing and delicious.

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This is a chocolate cake made with using the same sponge as the one above but layered with different cream. It wasn’t easy to spread a thin layer of cream on each layer but definitely worth the effort.

This is ‘Tenya’, a restaurant where I work part-time.

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It specializes in tendon (shortened word for tempura donburi) and it’s absolutely delicious. It’s so good that I would recommend tendon over sushi to foreign tourists.

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Doesn’t it look delicious??

 

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