Now that I know what I have to do… I’ll post my list of required baked goods and my firing list.
Required products:
3 dozen Croissants
2 dozen eclairs, filled, chocolate covered and garnished
2 Tres Leches scratch cakes, soaked, filled, decorated and garnished with strawberries
2 Frangipane apple tarts, garnished.
Here’s my firing list.
I finished everything on “Day One” in four hours. Tomorrow I have three.
Day One
Mix and laminate Croissant Dough.
Mix and retard Short dough for tarts.
Make and chill Pastry Cream.
Mix and chill frangipane filling.
Mix, bake and store Tres Leches Cakes.
Mix Tres Leches brandy mix.
Cook pate a choux. Pipe and bake éclairs. Store.
Mise for Ganache
Day Two
Roll out tart dough and place in shells. Retard.
Roll out croissants, make up, proof, eggwash and bake.
Peel, slice and cook apples for tarts.
Fill tarts with apricot filling, frangipane filling, apples and bake.
Make stabilized whipped cream for Tres Leches cakes.
Soak, fill and assemble Tres Leches cakes. Chill.
Pipe pastry cream in éclairs and dip in ganache. Garnish with shaved white chocolate.
Decorate Tres Leches cakes with whipped cream and strawberries.
Piece of cake eh?
I’ll post a gang of pics manana.