Emily Thomas's Pastry Performance Test

All the pastries on this page were prepared by Emily Thomas for her final performance test in the South Seattle Community College Pastry and Specialty Baking Program. She was allowed 16 hours total to prepare everything shown in these pictures.

Note that all of the pictures are followed by two links. The first, "Big", leads to a big copy of the same picture (about 720x480). The second, "Huge", leads to a huge copy of the same picture (about 1440x960).

If you'd like to contact Emily, you can send her email.

Croissants
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Croissants

Flaky butter pastry.

Brioche Coffee Cake Ring
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Brioche Coffee Cake Ring

Filled with cinnamon, sugar, pecans, and struesel and topped with simple syrup, and fondant.
Brioche Coffee Cake
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Brioche Coffee Cake

Herringbone with almond horn and cinnamon filling. Topped with struesel, simple syrup and fondant.
Napoleon Slices
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Napoleon Slices

Butter puff dough layered with vanilla pudding, topped with chocolate and white fondant.
Gateau
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Gateau

8-inch chocolate cake layered with chocolate butter cream, apricot jam, and croquant.
Bouchees
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Bouchees

Butter puff dough shells.
Boxes
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Boxes

All edible materials used to make these gift boxes such as marzipan, macronade, pastillage, and couveture.
Pithivier
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Pitivier

Butter puff dough filled with almond flavored cream and a thin layer of jam.
Emily's Purse
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Emily's Purse

All edible materials used to make this sculpture such as marzipan, pastillage, and couveture.
Shoe
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Shoe

All edible materials used to make this sculpture such as marzipan and couveture.
Swans
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Swans

Eclair pastry filled with a mixture of vanilla pudding, whipped cream, and powdered sugar.
Petit Fours
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Petit Fours

Baked frangipan with jam, quarter-sheet roulade, thin layer of butter cream, topped with marzipan dipped in petit four fondant, piped with a chocolate simple syrup mix.
Roulade Squares
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Roulade Squares

Jelly roll filled with a thin layer of jam and butter cream, covered with toasted sliced almonds, coconut, or chocolate vermicelli topped with piped butter cream.
Lemon Curd Tarts
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Lemon Curd Tarts

Sugar dough tart shells filled with lemon curd, topped with violets and a dusting of powdered sugar.
Bavarian Cake
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Bavarian Cake

Topped with strawberries.
Roulade Circles
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Roulade Circles

Jelly roll with plain butter cream and strawberries coated with chocolate ganache.


Beautiful (and delicious! Trust me.) food by Emily Thomas
Photos and Web design by Jeff Youngstrom
Text by Jeff Youngstrom with assistance from Emily Thomas
All errors of spelling or terminology are sure to be the fault of the computer geek who typed it all in.

All content of this page is copyright 2001
Please seek permission before using any of the text or images for anything but personal use