Long day- but so fun!

Got up this morning and headed out to buy some chocolate for tour du chocolat (more on this later). Went right from there to school. Arrived at school at 10 and started working on our chocolate showpiece for the tour. Went from that to watching a Guest Top Chef Brian Malarkey (originally from Bend!) make some magic with food for us! He was great- so hilarious and normal! After that demo, went back to work on tour du chocolat things. Did that until 5 when I went to my "capstone" class (basically just getting experience in what a baking kitchen would be like through the culinary schools restaurant). Because we are the first baking capstone class, we get to come up with and design the Culinary school's restaurants dessert menu! SO excited to be a part of this as it will be in play for years to come and students coming in after us will be using the things WE created! Legit right? Right. Was in class working on menu items until 9:30 tonight...and now i'm home, too excited to sleep thinking about TOUR DU CHOCOLAT! Yes! It's basically super legit, and any one able to make it needs to! It's a competition where you make a chocolate showpiece, and chocolate samples of your choice. My fearless bakers (Elise, Brook and Yuridi) and I are representing Elise's business "Fearless Baking" and the Culinary School as they have been so amazing with letting us use the kitchen space to prepare everything in. Annnnywho- we have made sponge candy (ahhhh, i've always loved this stuff, and even more so now that I know how to make it! haha), rolled cinnamon vanilla truffles, molded earl grey truffles and Elise's signature butter cookie dipped half way in ganache. I'm telling you- this stuff it to die for. Our showpiece is going to be kinda of an artistic/mad hatter/English tea party theme. I can't wait to get it all assembled! Can you tell by all the exclamation points that i'm beyond excited?!!? :) Alright- time to go wash my "whites"! Gotta have them bright and starched for the morning- which right now, they are covered in chocolate and marionberry sorbet! haaa. be jealous. :) Goodnight moon!