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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]

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]