Ambers finished swan with bubbled sugar water backdrop ... this was the size of a figurine!!!!

Bill Hodges showing Jones tow to make sugar ribbons by heating the knife with a torch to cut the cooled sugar ribbon strip.

Pulled sugar to make ribbon

Jones finished yellow rose and ribbon

Blue Rose (not mine)

Fred's Pink Rose BEAUTIFUL!

Almost there half way finished abstract centerpiece. Used cast sugar, pulled and blown sugar. (by: Evelyn)

Finished abstract centerpices (by: Evelyn)

Ambers mini swan it was the size of a porcelain figurine! SUPER!

"Mo" Monica working her sugar centerpiece under "the lamp!"

"THE PULLED SUGAR WARMING BOX" @ El Centro / This warm box is to mantain the sugar at a working temperature not to mention it keeps YOU nice and warm TOO!

This is how cooked Isomalt sugar starts out after boil and color... from here it is pulled until it acquires the shine and plasticity needed to start creating your pieces. Needles to say IT IS VERY HOT!!!!! after a few days of working with it I thought I was so used to the amount of heat that I went ahead and decided to pull it bare handed OHHH NOOO!!!! was I wrong I ended with a huge blister on my left thumb... not funny! of course I noticed/felt I was burned after the class was over in the mean time because of the heat I couldn't tell I was cooking my hands! LOL LOL LOL Don't try at HOME! LOL / For good cotton gloves to protect your hands visit the spa section on the grocery store or in "Bath and Body Works" and look for those nice cotton gloves used for hand spa treatment they work wonderful! they are the perfect thickness to save your little hands.

free form casts with marble effect used white, black and orange food coloring

LOL forgot what this one is called! ANYONE PLZ??? anyway it is sugar poured over wrinkled parchment paper to give the sugar a bubbly dripping effect.

cast sugar in silicone molds cooling off also casted some in cookie cutters and custom made metal molds by: Bill Hodges

Cast sugar demo by our instructor Bill Hodges / Marbeled effect and clear cast with color

Magic!

These are magical cookies indeed!!! one because they disappear before your eyes before you can say: "who wants another one" and second because they bring any guy you give’em to, to their knees! PROVEN spell (recipe) just ask! LOL :)

Healthy Food

Healthy Food: Homemade Whole wheat Chocolate chip cookies (suagr-free)

Healthy Food: Homemade Banana-Nut whole wheat bread

PASTILLAGE

Pastillage @ El Centro College Dallas,TX

Amber cutting pastillage

Jones air brushing his gazebo

working on pastillage gazebo

Amber's Rooster

Alison's Gazebo circa 2000!

Air brushed pastillage rooster

Pastillage Rooster with royal icing

Swiss Clock made out of pastillage

Kellogg's rooster!!! in pastillage by Monica

Fred's detailed gazebo

pastillage centerpiece

pastillage purse

Esther's pastillage house

my gazebo

My pastillage gazebo back detail

My pastillage gazebo front

colorful pastillage gazebo

Pastillage Piano

Sunflower gazebo

VEGGY FEST!!! @ El Centro many thanks to the Basic Food Prep next door for feeding us!

PASTA DAY!!! @ El Centro many thanks to the Basic Food Prep next door for feeding us!

Mom's EMPANADAS

Painfully weighing the dough balls...perfection don't come easy you know!

making the empanada disks with the "tortillera"

CAJETA or Dulce de Leche / Magical filling of my childhood!!! As a child I used to sit in the table of the kitchen where these where been made and I would patiently wait until my mom or my nanny who would help make'em get distracted and I would gulp on a spoon full of cajeta� of course after that I was kicked out of the kitchen BUT NOT FOR LONG!!!! LOL

"repulgo" the Spanish word for the delicate curl to seal the empanada... a true art in it self as not everyone knows how to do it... I inherited my repulgo from my mom, would not let me make empanadas sealed with a fork!!! G. forbid! Repulgo can also be used to make pie crust edges.

lined up and waiting for their journey in the oven

Cinnamon & sugar bath

128 !!!! HANDMADE empanadas... FYI ( ( 70 ) ) of these disappeared in the first minutes of me announcing they where ready!!!! THE POWER OF FOOD! LOL