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Felicia Yoder, pastry terminator, creates the most beautiful, and delicious works of art you may have never seen. Listen to how she got to Lady Yum. Books should be written about her journey. Her favorite music is also on our Spotify Playlist. https://pod.link/coffeeroadshow https://bit.ly/LadyYum #parisfrance #100acrewoods #entremets #frenchpastryschool #idealism #honduras🇭🇳 #empathy #dontsmile https://www.instagram.com/p/CB_A2iLBMiX/?igshid=duj1wos78nnl
More bites from last night: chocolate, entertainment, and more chocolate at the #FortheLoveofChocolate gala benefiting pastry scholarships! ☆ Here: delicately smokey s'mores parfaits by #nomichicago, the vibrant and enticing dance floor and performance space in the grand ballroom of the #palmerhouse, and classic chocolate mousse domes topped with edible gold leaf from the #frenchpastryschool! ♡ This was a Halloween costume chocolate gala, and this is the next clue to my costume representing a 1967 classic film character: animal print! (at Palmer House)
Good Bye!
The Official end to this blog. Thanks for following my journey from Nuclear Engineer to Pastry Chef.
The End of the Journey
As usual, I’m late getting the pictures up here. I finally got the official photos downloaded from my final graduation last month.
These are just a few of the awesome people I met while in the program.
Some of the wonderful chef instructors and support staff at the school
The parents, who drove all the way to Chicago AGAIN, even though my mom hates traffic. And my neighbor, who made living in Chicago tolerable and fun!!
Couple shots of the after Grad super snack session! The Pastry classes did all the hard work on the bottom two pix.
Here we are, the whole graduation group from the French Pastry School 2015.
Part 3 - Successfully Ended
Well, it’s with excitement, trepidation and abject fear that I tell you my pastry journey has come to an end with the completion of the third section of my education at the French Pastry School. On Friday 18 December, I received my certificate for the L’Art du Gâteau program.
This time last year, I was just moving to Chicago, getting settled and getting ready to embark on a weird and crazy journey to change my career path mid-life. I left a successful and well paying job to go to school full time. And when exiting school there was no guarantee of a job making more than minimum wage waiting for me. (and I actually have no job right now. As my parents have came to call me - JBL - for JOBLESS…)
It has been a wild ride with many up and many more downs. Over the course of the year I have learned more about bread that I ever thought I would know, I found that there was even more math in dessert than I suspected, and I realized that miscounting your sugar flowers leads to a gorgeous but HUGE poinsettia. 🌹
The biggest thing I learned in this portion, besides how to make sugar flowers and that real butter cream is slimy, is that I really like the detail and precision that is required to make a beautiful cake. I was concerned that my personality wouldn’t mesh well with the cake world. I move too much and have an urgency to myself that is very apparent. But I found it very easy to focus my energy to my hands for the fine detail work. And that every now and then I needed to go in the cooler and scream.
I am continuing the job hunt in the field I love. Hopefully there is someone out there that needs me to shape and bake bread for them, or needs me to cover some cakes in fondant. Wish me luck!! 🍀And if it you that needs me…send me a message!! 📩
I don’t have the official pictures yet, but will post them once I get them next week. For now this will have to do! I finished with honors (again, see the second rolling pin!!) 🍾
This was the crazy group of misfits I spent the last 16 weeks with day in and day out for MANY hours a day!! They made it so much better. 💚
Selfie with my final project wedding cake!! (and part of Rhiannon’s cake) Woot!! 😃
Missing @frenchpastryschool today. Making their nougat, pistachio, apricot and passion fruit entremet cake. I am forever thankful for the time I spent as a student there and the mentors that changed my life/career forever! #frenchpastryschool #frenchpastryschoolalumni #bestschoolintheworld
