Week 11: Debrief and Certificate

Last Le Cordon Bleu update and it’s a short one. Sorry! I hope you enjoyed hearing about my time at patisserie school. Would you like me to keep doing updates on baking related life or just go back to recipes and reviews? Let me know in the comments!

Last week I “graduated” from Le Cordon Bleu with my Basic Patisserie Certificate. We went in on Monday for a personal debrief in which one of our chefs broke down how we had done in our exams. It was basically a five minute conversation where they told you your grades. Truly thrilling. I cleaned out my locker and headed home, knowing that the next time I would be in that building would be the last time. For a while anyway.

On Thursday we had the certificate “ceremony”, which to be perfectly honest wasn’t very exciting. We turned up, there was a short speech, drinks and the chefs took a section of certificates each to give out. It wasn’t a graduation ceremony where you walk across a stage or anything, just a big group of people mingling and chatting, going to get a piece of important paperwork. It was lovely to get to say goodbye to my group and a few others, but that’s all it was really. Not much more to it. Months of baking with quite an abrupt ending. I feel at a bit of a loss to be honest. I absolutely loved Le Cordon Bleu and am pretty proud of myself for how I did, but it was never going to last forever!

Nevermind, on to other things now.

New recipe up later this week!