well cooking and baking shows are all
the rage and many dream about becoming a
professional chef and you could to just
follow the path of our next guests who
are gold medalists state champs we want
to welcome our from our friends The
Culinary Institute of Michigan at Baker
College of Port Huron first chef Paula
Reston Ella and to students who brought
home the gold
we've got Laura buen dia and Robert
Brooks aka Robbie you guys thank you so
much for being here I'm so excited for
them because they killed it in this
competition didn't they chef absolutely
that's what happened well we're very
proud of them again they competed this
was their second time they wanted one
more chance at taking that gold and they
both did so they are heading to Kentucky
at the end of June they have a lot of
work between now and then they'll be
practicing two to three times a week to
be ready for it
Robby's competition is in culinary arts
and it's actually three market baskets
so he won't know which one he is going
to do the day of the competition until
the night before Robbie that's a lot of
pressure we do a lot of practice
whereas Laura actually knows what she
has to prepare so she'll be preparing
exactly that but hers is six hours okay
so I feel like should I ask you what we
don't want to give it away we don't want
to give it away okay so you're gonna
show me a technique right yes I'm gonna
start off with roses I usually color my
roses okay and the way you start off is
you and most like they have a nail and
then a 104 tip what I usually do is
start off with a little dome and make
sure it's high enough okay and with me I
do three rings around it so I got one
two and then the third one you're gonna
go more and closed because that's gonna
be like your rosebud okay and then the
first row of petals is going to be three
so I go around the flower
and then you're gonna go to five one two
three so as you're doing it you're
slowly twirling the nail around so you
can she can get the petals just right
Wow so do you want me to try this if you
like yes I do that's right
so just ever try the next layer on there
next way keep going they start here and
we're gonna have the bag um yeah I'll
show you how I rested on my hand I have
it like this way so when you're piping
you're gonna go around and just have a
little curve got it got it little curve
people I'm about to get the little curve
so like so right sure okay felt to save
this we're gonna go around in like a
rainbow I'm just trying to save if
you're falling over see that was my
technique what do you think you got I
think is good what are you gonna prepare
for the national championship what's it
gonna be
do you know yet oh you said everyone's
gonna make this anything right yeah they
have to bake a pie just to decorate a
cake cookies scones eclairs and French
bread okay so here's the thing you have
to prepare all of those things okay so
if you need a test taste tester call me
you know Tammy and J are producers I can
come YouTube Robbie us well I can come
in I can taste we can work it a lot of
stuff to taste by the time we need
somebody else to do the tasting so again
what are you guys doing to prepare for
the competition two to three days a week
practice what else that's the big thing
there's a lot of organization planning
we have to create three menus for him
because he has the three market baskets
so we're gonna strategize on that this
week and then they will start they're
gonna hit the ground running for you
guys congratulations on your win and
good luck in Kentucky seriously you guys
can do this if you're interested or know
someone who might be interested in
learning new
culinary skills at Baker College a point
Huron and its award-winning culinary
arts program visit their website go to
Baker dot edu slash Culinary Institute
of Port Huron thanks again everyone