Le Cordon Bleu

Yesterday, I went to Le Cordon Bleu. In case you do not know what that is, it is probably the best cooking school there is, and the place Julia Child went to learn to cook. We took a mother - daughter class together, in French but translated into English. There were supposed to be four families, but only one other group came, a mother and a girl my age from the United States. We finally were brought upstairs. There we met the Chef, assistants, and translator, and we started working. The first thing we made was a plain circle of sponge cake. We then made a pastry cream (which I put too much vanilla in) and finally cut up some strawberries. When everything was ready, we assembled it in a metal circle with some thing that looked like whipped topping and put it in a refrigerator. When it came out, we torched the top making it look like desserts you would see in a expensive pastry shop, and then removed the metal circle. Above is the final result of my cake. They let us keep the aprons and hand towels that we used, and we even got a certificate. We each made a cake, so we got to eat my mom's with some guests that night, but I 'm saving mine for when a friend visits. Overall, a fun experience.