Blog #19: Senior Project and ESLRs

1. I think that the ESLRs that I have excelled in the most are being an effective user of technology, effective learner, and effective communicator.

2. I believe that I am a successful at being an effective user of technology because I am learning how to use new types of technology at my mentorship, like using new settings on the somerset roller. Also, being able to communicate with the customers I help and the students that I teach at classes proves the fact that I am being an effective learner and communicator because I not only had to talk to these people, I also had to be trained in order to fulfill these jobs, when assigned by my mentor.

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This is a photo of a group of girl scouts that I had taught a class too.

This was my first time making a sculpture for an order by myself. I had to input all that I had learned from Ashley when making this.

Blog #18: 2 Hour House, Answer 3

1. My essential question is:
What is the best way to create a decorative art themed wedding cake?

2. The third answer to my essential question is simplicity.

3. Examples/ evidence:

- Ex. If we were having a wedding, and it was a simple black and white theme, you would not want to have fireworks made of fondant and the whole cake covered in flowers, it would not only look like a hot mess, but it would also look to busy and complicated for anyone to really enjoy.

- Evidence: My interview #3, with my mentor, Ashley McNeal. She had mentioned to me that we want to keep things nice a beautiful, but at the same time, keep it simple and clean.

- Ex. Simplifying as much as we can in an order for a cake is one of the best ideas because we want to be able to do the order without having to call and bother the customer by calling them if it seems to complicated to the cake decorator. We make sure that is the case in all of the orders we do in the bakery.

4. The main source that helped me reach this answer if my mentor, Ashley. She always tells me that when we take an order for a cake, that we want to stress that keeping the design simple is important so that we do scramble in the bakery, and get confused on what is written down on the order itself.

5. I plan to study more on other cake decorators styles to broaden my horizon about different cake decorating styles. I hope doing this helps me find my niche in cake decorating.

Blog #16: 2 Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. My essential question is:
 What is the best way to create a decorative art themed wedding cake?

2. What I have decided to make my second answer to be is color.

3. The reason I believe that color is so significant to my essential question is because of three main reasons. The first reason that color is so important is that color can define what is going on, for example, when you typically think of elegant colors, like white, black, or silver, you would think of a wedding, not typically a birthday or Valentine's day. Another reason that color is so significant is that color can bring life to what can be a possibly dull cake. Just like in any art, not only is the way the artist does his or her painting or photography, without the use of color, it can possibly be a dull and boring image or sculpture. The last reason that color is my answer is because during my research, I had found an article that I plan on using (Click here), it had said the color cannot only add unity and contrast to a design, but the colors we use can actually affect the emphasis you piece has.

4. Like I had said, the link I had mentioned before has definitely helped my realize that color should be my answer, but also from talking to mentor, Ashley, about the topic while working in the bakery.

5. I plan to continue my study on my answer 2 by finding my articles on why color is useful in art, and asking more questions during mentorship to get more information from an expert in the field.

Blog #10: Senior Project Update

1. As of now, I am currently working on getting a baking class in Fullerton, and also trying to get an internship at a bakery named Patty Cakes.

2. The most important research that I have gotten recently was my interview two because my mentor told me a lot about where I should be going and what I should be taking up in order to further my education in Pastry Art.

3. To see my interview notes, please refer to either my Turnitin.com submission or my Working bibliography (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgvBrtYSqMR6dFlZdGNPdWpMVjljWkN2cWwxUGZnRHc) Source # 27

Blog #9: Working EQ and Possible Answers

Content:

1. During my presentation, my working Equipment was, " What is the best way for a pastry chef tobtell a story though their food?"

2. I did not make any changes to my working EQ.

3. Some possible answers that I have thought of for my working EQ is simplicity because I have read in one of my pieces of research that going over the top with what you are doing on a cake can make the art unnoticed or unattractive. Another answer is creativity, and by this,  I mean that the pastry chef needs to be creative with what ever they make, but not to crazy in design. So far, those are the only answers I have come to and I hope to either edition or change them when I find what I am looking for.

Blog #2: Topic Choice

Content: 

A: 
- What is your topic and why?

•  The topic I choose to do was Pastry Art, meaning that I am going to look at the creative side of being a pastry chef and how they are able to create a story through cake or other confectioneries based on a certain event or party. The reason I decided to do Pastry Art was because I always enjoyed seeing cake and other types of pastries and seeing how beautiful it looked on a plate or cake. Most of the time, I could tell that a pastry chef's creation was trying to tell a story through the food they made, and I instantly got the idea that I wanted to introduce that aspect of a pastry chef in my senior project.

B:
-And what do you hope to accomplish this year with this topic?

• iPoly Citizen: I plan to create many cakes and other  confectioneries for other people, and this relates to me improving as an iPoly citizen because every time I bake something and I give that creation to someone, I always see a smile on their face, that is what I enjoy to see. I want to be able to make people smile when they seem down or sad.
• Effective Communicator: I plan to be able to listen to my mentor and anyone else I work with in this field. This will make me more effective as a learner because from those people that I work with, I will learn more and more about how to bake, work in the kitchen, and also more techniques in this form of art. I will be able to take this to school because I will need to listen not only in class, but also to others.
• Effective Learner: I plan to learn as much as I can during my mentorship. By doing this, I will become more effective as a learner because I will have to learn as much as I can for my senior project, and I also have to learn many things in my classes. I cannot just pretend to pay attention to anything, and then end up doing the wrong thing, this goes for being in both the classroom and in the kitchen.
• Effective User of Technology: I plan to help learn more about basic equipment other necessities in the kitchen, but also use technology to help my mentor's business take off. By doing these things, I will become a more effective user of technology because I need to be able to understand how the equipment works and what it is used for, but since I will also help in advertising my mentors business, I will need to use different mediums of technology for her business to rise.