The Practical Pâtissier: The Art of Living (AOL)

This weekend I was able to attend a conference at Shellbourne Conference Center in Valparaiso Indiana. This conference was designed specially for high schooler to learn how to take ordinary tasks and raise them to the level of an art. For example, cooking and baking is culinary arts. It was a lot of fun! Over 75 high schooler girls from around the country took party in it. There were different seminars and competitions. The seminars included how to garden, use tools to make a stool, make different types of salsa from around the world, and how cheese is made and what is paired well with it! I learned a lot from the seminars and the were a lot of fun! The competitions included great cakes, culinary mystery basket, be our guest, and skills gallery. I competed in the great cakes competition with my friend Katie . We made a flour less chocolate cake with a raspberry filling, and we got a silver medal! I was completely blown away by all of the incredibly artistic talent that I saw. This was an incredibly experience and I can't wait to go back next year!