Mike Anthony's Remarkable Cakes
This blog is here to show people my work. My company is called Mike Anthony's Remarkable Cakes, or MARC for short. I am trying to make as big of a mark in the baking and pastry world as possible, and try to make a mark on every person's life I make a cakes for.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Intern Graduation Celebration Cake
To represent The Mix, I create a book and wrote one of the recipes each of the five interns created that were implemented in the actual dining facility. Then, each student was given a color, and with the help of Marisa's sugar flower making skills, symbolically showed how much the students grew together while in The Mix. Each student was also made a seed packet that corresponded to their flower that they could remove and take home. It was a lot of fun, and the students really liked it. It was really great to see the smiles on their faces, and to know that we made it.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Experiments with the Boy Scouts
A couple of weeks ago, Chef Gary came up to me with the opportunity to teach a few boy scouts a cool new trick. Knowing I wanted to pursue education in the near future, Chef let me teach the boy scouts that were here for the weekend how to bake outdoors out of a cardboard box oven. All you do is wrap the box in tin foil at least four layers so that the box doesn't burn. Then create shelves out of more cardboard wrapped in tin foil held up with some green wood so that it wouldn't burn as easily. Lastly, the coal is placed at the bottom of the oven, with each coal bricket representing about 45 degrees of heat.
It was really fun to not only teach the scouts how to make it, but to also educate them on healthier pizza toppings like broccoli, peppers, and onions which made the lessons that much more important. The best, and worst, part was when the green wood turned to black wood and started to burn, causing the oven to smoke. I then turned the culinary lesson into a fire safety one, explaining the importance of doing this away from dry plants and having water near by.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Not Urinal cake...urinal Cake, theres a big difference
Since that stupid urinal made our house float on water, I wanted to make the urinal float on water. The scouts loved it, gave me a standing ovation, and even awarded me with a Urinal cake as a sign of gratitude. I love it here. :D
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Coach Purse Cake
Saturday, May 21, 2011
GRADUATION!!!!
Friday, May 6, 2011
2nd Annual Extreme Cake Competition
was as a chef. From the top to the bottom - The top is a sugar blown sphere that changed colors because we put a special light on the inside. The top blue tier represent his award. The following black tier is a hexagon and has bamboo on the edges to represent the Asain theme of The Setai. The next white tier has antique paintings of the Ritz logo going around the outside. Hanging in the middle is a sugar pulled spike ball to represent The Viceroy Hotel logo (A Sunburst). The next blue tier has a collection of Common Red Poppy Flowers, the national flower of Belgium, Chef Yannis' home country. The bottom tier represent where Chef Yannis is working now, The Fontainebleau, and has a monogram of his initial going around the rest of the tier. The cake is floating on a bed of truffles to represent Chef Yannis' home country again.
In the end, my team WON!!! We beat out over ten other cakes. This was a huge retribution from last year. My partner and I competed in the last Extreme Cake Competition, and didn't place, so this year, we wanted to show everyone that we could not only place, but win, and
we did! :D Also, in the picture the right, this is Chef Yannis, my partner Lindsay, and myself
Monday, May 2, 2011
Pebble Beach 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
DVC WINNER
After I put it on, which took forever, I noticed it needed ironing. I wish would have noticed before.