Buttercream Pro

        Today when I walked into the kitchen the board was completely full of tasks that all had to be done today.  If I said I was overwhelmed it would be an understatement.  I started off with a completely new task today: cream cheese frosting.  The cream cheese frosting is the second most important frosting made at Luna.  It is used mostly for red velvet and carrot cupcakes.  The buttercream frosting is used for the majority of cupcakes and cakes.  Cream cheese frosting only has 4 ingredients, obviously there is cream cheese but also butter, vanilla and powdered sugar.  The only difficult part is sifting the powdered sugar.  I sifted a total of 12 pounds of powdered sugar and made a pretty big mess to say the least.  Once I finished this the rest of the recipe was very easy.  Basically all of the ingredients mixed in the mixer for a while.  Usually at the end of making the frosting it has to be sifted again.  Thankfully I was told that I didn't have to sift again.
        Once I finished this I was told by Lindsay (one of the cake makers) that she needed a lot of buttercream for this weekend.  So I started on my first batch and ended up getting a total of three done today.  Because I know the recipe by heart, I've pretty much got it down and can time out each batch pretty well.  Meaning that once I put in my last round of butter in the batch in the mixing bowl I can put my next batch on the double boiler so that it sits and is ready once I'm done with the batch in the mixing bowl.  The cafe was insanely busy today.  The funny thing was that it was very slow and then all of a sudden so many people walked in.  So it took a while to get lunch.  I ordered a barbeque pulled pork and coleslaw panini with a side of quinoa (in the picture below).  It was very yummy and I highly recommend it.