Desserts for 50 tonight!

So yesterday we made more and more and more bread!  Okay, maybe not that much more, but it felt like it!  I made Pain au Levain, Pane Di Como, and Pane Pugliese, all which are yummy and hopefully pictures will be up soon!  We lined all of our Pane Di Como up and they looked like a bunch of little clams!  I also got my Sourdough with Gorgonzola cheese and Walnuts checked off, though our loaves came out gigantic!  They are usually about half the size, but for some reason when Carly and I made ours on Wednesday, they proofed up extra big and seemed to just keep expanding, so we had extra large loaves!  We actually (wow) ended up with some extra time on our hands at the end of the night, so our group made some chocolate chip muffins, which we were going to color purple, but then realized there is cocoa powder in the recipe and so that would cancel out any coloring we had, so they were just normal chocolate chip muffins instead, but still yummy.  We traded with the other two groups who had made some cookies though, and they were yummy as well.  With all this bread though, my backpack is suddenly feeling very small!  Everyday it feels like I have less and less room!  I need to find a small, small back that can pack up very small until I need it, because our lockers aren't all that big either.  I saw one somewhere when I was Christmas shopping, so I will have to go wander again and find out where I saw it.

Today our group is in service and this term we are cutting down to only two people in service, because if not there is just too little to do for a group of 4 and so too much waiting around, so with only two people it will keep us busier.  If all goes well, then next term we will be down to just one person in service by ourselves - since we'll be pros at it, right?  :)  While only having two in service is all fine, tonight we have a laaaarge party of 50 people scheduled, so we are trying to convince Chef to let our smaller group of 3 have all our people down there, but we'll see what happens.  Probably depends on if all of our bread is done by the time service comes around or not.  50 desserts sounds a bit daunting, but it also sounds like a challenge, so I think it'll be okay.  I just hope we have enough dessert for 50 plates!  That is a whole lot of dream tortes, caramel nut tarts, brownie sundaes, and apple strudels going out!