Christina Snow and Gino Grisby showing off products from Advanced Pastries. German Chocolate Cake!

Topics covered: Icings and frostings, Italian buttercream, French buttercream, simple/American buttercream, foam icing, fudge icing, fondant, glaze, royal icing, ganache, assembling and decorating cakes.

Demos: Showed how to Italian buttercream and American buttercream, how to fill and ice a cake with crumb coat and final icing with decorations

Lab Activity: Students prepared a three layered checkerboard cake with chocolate Italian buttercream filling, frosted with American buttercream, as a well as a german chocolate cake with coconut pecan filling and whipped ganache

KU MLB advanced pastries class 2