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Hello again, huge fans of yammy tokyo!! We made donuts on this day! We only have 1 donut lesson a year. The classroom was filled with the smell of oil from the morning but everyone was excited with just the thought of making a donut. The first donut we made was made from the dough squeezed and shaped out of a piping bag. It was extremely hot since it was the middle of summer and the sizzling oil added to the heat but everyone was excited and started to make the donuts in shapes that they liked. I was confident with mickey-mouse and heart shape. Actually I made quite a few other donuts than that mickey-mouse but it all got… [More]

This was the first day we made ice cream!!! Wow! This was the only day we had ice cream class so for an ice cream lover like myself, I got so excited from the day before that I could barely sleep that night! It was a simple lesson where you heat up milk, cream, sugar and vanilla beans and let them cool then put it into a machine to mix the ice cream and it was done… [More]

Hello, it’s from Tokyo. I’m going to show you guys lovely bakery collection this week. This is a sweet called panier de fruit. It’s a dessert where you make mold with the cookie and fill the inside with cream and fruit. Making the mold is extremely difficult. You bake the thinly rolled out dough and put it into the mold to make the shape while it’s hot. I was able to successfully finish only 10 out of 20. Half of them broke while I was making them. Poor YUKI!! :-l You should mind something while you make this. The cookie absorbs moisture and goes flabby in no time so you have to eat them right after it’s made. Gimme me break!! This is a sweet called… [More]

This is Opera, a traditional French cake! So yammy!!! :)) This cake boasts of a wonderful harmony of layers of coffee cream, genoise and ganache moistened with liquor. It is extremely complicated and difficult to bake this cake. On top of a sheet of genoise moistened with syrup of liquor and coffee, you spread a layer of coffee cream and then another sheet of genoise and then spread ganache… you have to continuously repeat this procedure over and over to make this cake! And at the end, you coat it with chocolate! Now you know why operas are expensive. It’s a cake that requires incredible amount of time and attention… [More]

Professor Izumi, the greatest pâtissier in Japan! On this day, we had a class with professor Izumi, one of the most renowned pâtissiers in Japan. Professor Izumi is our school graduate. Maybe that’s why professor Izumi is so popular in our school. This is pistachio cupcake. It’s decorated with framboise jam so it was sweet and sour and really delicious. This is chocolate craft that the professor made in two hours. The shape is so abstract that I can’t really tell what it is trying to express but I was totally shocked by the fact that something like this can be made in only two hours! However, it was a really hot day and the chocolate that was used as glue… [More]

On this day, we had a wine class. I’ve had fruit wine a couple of times but it was the first time for me to drink the real stuff so I was excited from the morning. And for our class, we had professor Mitake – a master sommelier. We briefly learned the history and the basic manners of wine and went on to sampling. My friends drank the wine pretty excitedly saying that they feel like grown-ups, but once they took a sip, they all looked as if they were about to throw up. So did I. I guess I still have a long way to go before becoming an adult. Red wine, white wine and champagne, they were all bitter for me. Tears.. tears.. This is a mousse cake called… [More]

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… [More]

Today we made cheese mousse cake using framboise. I felt more than welcome to make this cake because I love cheese cake so much! Our school emphasizes using the least amount of gelatin as possible to preserve the natural flavors of the ingredients but maybe because of that when I was about to take the picture of the cake, the framboise jelly in the middle started to melt down and the pretty layer that I worked so hard on was destroyed~ But it still tasted delicious! This one is a chocolate cake layered with almond cream. The sponge dough is made with egg whites only so when it was baked it came out really hard… [More]

If you like to have some fun operating a camera, and want to take pictures easily with a stylish camera, Samsung compact digital camera, ST10 will be appealing to you. Especially, since many users are sharing pictures with others by uploading them on their internet homepage or blog, compact camera users are increasing. And they usually want to carry a camera everywhere. Now taking pictures have become a popular habit. Lots of users are female, and they want a small camera that fits into a petite purse. But so far, the compact cameras with high portability have been not so good in its functions. However, thanks to development of digital technology, recently released digital cameras have improved a lot in its functions… [More]

In 2009, Samsung Digital Imaging released a new lineup starting with WB500 and then a variety of series have followed. Recently, new lineup such as PL series, ES series, and ST series have been introduced to meet rapidly changing digital camera market and consumers. Especially, ST series is a multimedia digital camera exclusive form Samsung; there’re two kinds, ST50 and ST10. ST10 is a digital convergence camera like NV9 and has multimedia functions like MP3, PMP, text viewer, voice recorder, and portable disc. And it is a new digital camera with unique Haptic effect which was popular in Samsung cell phones. ST10, a new camera with Haptic effect, offers touch operation and vibration and sound… [More]

Today is the fun marzipan class. Marzipan is made of ground almonds mixed with sugar; like an edible version of clay~ But if you take a look at the process of how marzipan is made, you will probably loose your appetite~ To get the color and shape we squeeze the dough several times with our hands. So my advice to you is not to eat the marzipans decorations when you go out and buy sweets somewhere. But of course, I’m sure there are marzipans made in factories that are clean. This is first time I’ve made this rose. Considering that it is my first try, it turned out so well that I went around the class to brag to my classmates… [More]