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Poppy seed & cherry entremet – my own recipe inspired by a Hungarian dessert utilising bread and poppy seeds, and the pictorial side of it is one of my first attempts to food photography 🍰
[I am an amateur baker, teaching myself professional-level pastry at the moment, so helpful comments, opinions are very welcome! 🙂 ]
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Thank you 🙂
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I have prepared many modern cakes with mirror glass and it’s a slow, hard and painful process 😂. This looks real fine
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Thank you, that’s good to hear! 🙌
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Tiene muy buena presencia
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Thank you 🙂
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Welcome to the community, Réka! 👋
This entremet looks beautiful, the glaze has a lovely shine and that marbled effect is very eye-catching. The slice shows clean layers, and the contrast between poppy seed and cherry feels well thought out. For the photos, you could try a slightly softer light to reduce harsh shadows and bring out more detail in the textures.We’d love to know more about your journey and what you’re hoping to achieve as you teach yourself professional-level pastry. What are you looking to get from Scoolinary right now, and is there anything we can help you with along the way? 🍰
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Hi Sol! Thank you for this elaborate opinion – it is helpful, and I am glad that overall you like the cake. For the photos, I’ll look into how I can edit differently next time – I think it is right that the textures could have popped more!
I suppose the main reason I am doing this is because I enjoy baking a lot, but even more so it is a creative outlet for me that also brings a next challenge all the time. My goal – though far away now – would be able to reach the skill level of a good pastry chef with an ability to make my own recipes or even come up with interesting techniques myself. (On the side, I would be very happy if I ever got to the level that I could create Michelin star desserts by myself, but this is more for the sake of testing and pushing limits in my abilities than to actually ever work in a Michelin star restaurant.) So essentially I am here to be inspired/to see techniques I haven’t encountered before and absorb. I suppose there are things I would be interested in taking courses on that are not available yet (or I haven’t seen) – is there a platform to make suggestions on topics or people we’d be interested in learning from? 🍰-
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@rekahorvathr-e2c3b8 Hi! 😊 It’s lovely to read your reflection, and the way you describe baking as both a creative outlet and a challenge really resonates with the spirit of the community.
Your goal of reaching the level where you can create your own recipes and even develop techniques is such a beautiful journey to be on. And honestly, that curiosity you have, the desire to test limits and keep learning, is exactly the mindset that great pastry chefs share. Little by little, experimenting, observing textures, flavors, and presentation, you start building that creative voice of your own.
About your question, yes, this is actually a great place to share suggestions. We truly love hearing what our Scoolinars would like to explore next, whether that’s specific pastry topics, techniques, or chefs you admire. It helps us understand what inspires the community and what could be valuable to bring to the platform.
Now I’m curious, which chefs would you love to see teaching here? Or is there a particular pastry technique or dessert style you’d be excited to dive deeper into? 🍰-
@soldamiani Hi Sol! Thanks for your response, and sorry that I am quite slow however.
There are some topics that would immediately come to mind.
1) Mirror glazes – I’d be very excited about an advanced mirror glaze course where they show small tricks to make glaze styles successful. I suppose it may be a long-shot because she has her own online pastry “academy” per se, but I follow Ksenia Penkina and she is amazing at this. Alternatively, I came across Magista entremet and Undecimo entremet on Instagram, and I think their work is pretty stunning, too.
2) Science of baking & recipe development – Though probably this is more obvious to the trained chefs or people with more experience, but I’d love a course about the science of baking with a focus on the recipe creation side (not sure such a course exists anywhere) – e.g. some comprehensive walkthrough on the principles behind certain processes, and how to choose ingredients, ratios and techniques best with specific aims and underlying processes in mind. I think this would definitely be helpful for people with similar aspirations/level as me. E.g., I came across the work of Paula Figoni (author of How Baking Works) who has a very interesting systematic/experimental mindset, or Katarina Cermelj – she has a book about how to make recipes with substitutions for vegan, etc., which is excellent. I bet that both would have a lot to say/teach in a course about recipe development and baking science.
3) Sugar work – I have done the course “Sugar Art” on Scoolinary which I quite liked, but it was a lot more about how to incorporate sugar into plated desserts than the sugar work in itself. I would be very thrilled to have a course about sugar alone (even from the basics) and how to get from relatively simple blown sugar or the pulled sugar ribbons to do very delicate sugar flower bouquets, etc.
4) Hyperrealistic cakes – As an amateur self-teaching person at least I think it would be so cool to have a course on main techniques and principles of making realistic cakes (similar to ones on “Is It Cake?”, for example). I have watched the Fruit and Nuts course (not sure this is the exact name) on how to make realistic-looking pastries, which I loved, and I think some other ones on similar subjects would interest me a lot. On the food looking like other food side, I think for example Cedric Grolet has very cool work, though I don’t have anyone in particular in mind for the food looking objects side.
5) Showpieces – I, for example, love the work of Amaury Guichon about chocolate work, and making very stunning showpieces. Maybe this is a similarly long-shot because he also has his Pastry Academy (though mostly in-person) but I’d like to learn how one can do and come up with similarly cool things as he or other chocolatiers do. Similarly, the sugar showpieces for me are equally interesting – I’ve seen some from this year’s Pastry World Cup and they were very cool. I’d love to see a course on them, the equipment they need, the tricks of how to create very nice ones.
6) Plated dessert design principles – This probably again is more for the less professional audience but may be great. I have seen similar courses available on plating canapes, plating in general, etc and found them useful. I’d be interested to see a version where they show the though process of design (e.g. Jade Nina Serkhel did a similar approach in her course for photos, telling principles and then walking through great examples of composition step-by-step with solutions to specific problems, which I liked).
These are ones that I could think of now – hope it is partially helpful. Sorry for the very long explanations – these may be highly subjective opinions/preferences, but I thought I’ll share just in case. 🤗 Thank you if you consider making any of these happen!
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@rekahorvathr-e2c3b8 Thanks so much for taking the time to share all these ideas and explain them in such detail. We really appreciate it! 😊
We’ve passed your suggestions along to the team so they can take them into account for future courses.
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this looks so god for an amateur baker..well done
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Thanks a lot! 🙂
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🎉 Congratulations Réka!
Your first photo has just earned you the Scoolistar Badge and 100 Scoolipoints for being absolutely amazing!
It truly deserves the spotlight, so we’ll be sharing it in our Instagram Stories.😉.
Thanks for the inspiration—and well done! 👏-
@soldamiani Oh – thank you so much! I am very happy! 🙌🤗🎉
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@rekahorvathr-e2c3b8 Congratulations!
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