Chapter Seventy-Two: It's Time to Taste
Mr. Yajma gently picks up a piece of cake crust and dips it twice in the chocolate lava in the center to evenly wrap the cake in the rich chocolate sauce before slowly putting the cake in his mouth.
"Well, it's a great taste." Mr. Yajma looked like he was enjoying it, and he felt the tip of his tongue wrapped in an indescribable warmth, the gentle heat stimulating his mouth, just enough to pick up the most sensitive parts of the taste buds without burning. The rich aroma of cocoa poured down the mouth into the nostrils, and the invigorating aroma hit the limbs.
Although there are many variations of lava cake, cocoa lava made with pure chocolate is the most authentic, and this cake has only one outstanding feature, and that is fragrant! The aroma covers everything, the aroma makes it all, the crust of the cake wrapped in cocoa sauce becomes extremely slippery, the jelly-like texture hardly needs to be chewed, and every roll of the tongue brings a new stimulus, and finally the cake is not swallowed but slides down the throat, the feeling is simply intoxicating.
Mr. Yajma savored it carefully for a moment, then drank a glass of water and wiped his mouth with a white towel beside him. That's when the judgment is made unhurriedly: Group C, full marks.
Although the C-level recipe is the least difficult, being able to receive such an evaluation from Mr. Yajima undoubtedly shows the outstanding strength of the Philippe and their talents.
"Not only do you have a strong control over the magic, but you also have a very precise grasp of the heat, and you also have a unique insight into the ingredients themselves, not only perfectly restoring the description of the recipe, but also making improvements on this basis, I have to say, you are really a genius in cooking." Mr. Yajma commented.
Kildas in the audience quietly poked Renault beside him: "If it weren't for your explanation, I would really think that Mr. Yajma was making a review of his cooking skills." ”
"No, I think he's just doing a cooking review." Renault said with black lines on his head.
"Then next, it's the work of Group A." The second to step forward with a plate was Elsa, who walked up to Mr. Yajma and put her hand on the lid.
"This is our creation – Frozen lemon cheesecake."
"Cut, it's a fancy name, maybe it's actually a big lump of ice frozen with some unknown object?" Mira mocked in the audience, she didn't want to believe that Elsa could make any delicate delicacy.
"Elsa, are you good at cooking?" Renault asked Kildas beside him.
"I don't know." Kildas stroked his beard curiously, "It's true that she likes desserts. ”
Unfazed, Elsa slowly lifted the lid.
Call!
First, a puff of white gas greeted me, because of the liquefied water vapor that heated up, which showed how low the original temperature in the plate was. After the white fog cleared, the works of Group A slowly revealed their true faces.
It was a crystal clear triangular cake with a white surface as fine snow, so delicate that there was no blemish in it, and it was topped with a layer of ground chocolate powder and topped with lemon and cherry decorations.
"Well, that's pretty good." Ajma glanced at Elsa with satisfaction and said with relief, "Originally, I really thought I was going to see an unknown object. ”
Elsa's face turned red, then quickly returned to normal.
"Please taste it." She said.
Offstage, Natsu shook Gray's shoulders excitedly: "I'm going to eat, I'm going to eat, do you think our method can be effective?" ”
"I don't know!" Gray struggled to break free from Natsu's restraints, and said impatiently, "Just wait and see, if the part you're responsible for doesn't go wrong, it should work." ”
On the bench, Mr. Yajma was ready to start, and with a poof, the spoon sank into the inside of the cake without hindrance.
In fact, despite the name of cake, this classic dessert should actually belong to the mousse, and the whole process requires almost no temperature, the key is whipped and frozen with cream and cheese butter.
But Elsa's special piece of cake is inside. Mr. Yajma gently put the cake in his mouth, and his eyes suddenly widened.
At the first moment of entry, there is a cold milky aroma with a hint of lemon, giving people a refreshing feeling. That's right, if the previous lava cake brought an aggressive cocoa aroma, then this piece of frozen lemon cheesecake feels refreshing, a feeling of cleanliness that washes away all the tiredness and hustle and bustle, like the feeling of relaxing in a soft mattress after a hard day's work.
But then, a nutty burnt aroma came, and it turned out that in the delicate mousse, finely chopped roasted walnuts were added, and the original fragrance of this fire once again sublimated the original freshness, and the perfect fusion of fireworks and light inspiration was simply unstoppable.
"It's Natsu's handiwork." Yajma said with a smile.
Natsu nodded frantically in the audience, and as the only person in the team who couldn't use those kitchen utensils at all, Elsa arranged a new task for him in a different way. As a veteran lover of sweets, Elsa actually has some unique insights into baking, as the saying goes, I have never eaten pork and always seen pigs running. At Elsa's arrangement, Natsu bakes a bunch of nuts, but the only ones she can add to the cake are the walnuts.
As for the frozen mousse, of course, it was left to Gray, a connoisseur of ice who was much better than any freezing tool, and under his operation, the smoke of the freshly baked walnuts was completely frozen in the cake, which gave rise to this contrasting special flavor.
"Well, it's really good, the use of magic is impeccable, the work is fine, and the creativity is even more original, well, then, let's give it a score of 6." Mr. Yajma made the decision.
"What?" The eyes of the people in Group A widened in unison.
"Why?" Elsa asked, puzzled, "Isn't this dessert as good as the lava cake from before?" ”
"It's just that this is a special product, how can it not even be compared to the big road goods like Filid." Natsu yelled unconvinced.
"What did you say?" Field, who was watching the excitement from the side, suddenly exuded a murderous aura. "If you don't accept it, you maniac who is useless except for fire."
"Heads-up see heads-up, do you think I'll be afraid of you?" Natsu spewed fire as he lunged towards Field, and Gray pulled him back.
"Enough of you idiot, you'll deduct points if you rush to someone else's cooking area now." Gray saw through Felid's sinister intentions and desperately held down the irascible little fire dragon.
On the bench, Elsa respectfully asked Mr. Yajma about the basis for his judgment.
"The reason is actually very simple, you almost didn't use the kitchen utensils I gave you in the process of making them. The walnuts are roasted with Natsu's own flame, the mousse is whipped and stirred with Elsa's strength and skill, and the final freeze is Gray's magic. You have done every step well, however, this is a violation of the rules. Mr. Yajma said scrutinously.
"Yes...... But......" Elsa wanted to speak, but didn't know how to argue.
"That's right, the difficulty of this level of assessment is how to master those damn kitchen utensils, you skipped this step, and what is the difference between not writing the process and getting the results directly during the exam." Bigusloh scoffed exaggeratedly.
"Don't talk cool here, before you get ordinary kitchen utensils, you're not also a mess." Natsu fired back.
Pyguslo put his arms around Abba Greene beside him, and said with great strikingness: "That's not because our partners have gained an advantage, and you have the ability to challenge Kildas again." ”
Before he could finish speaking, Pygusrow was knocked down by the unbearable Abba Greene, and made up for it a few more times.
"If you dare to be presumptuous, you will die."
"Enough, don't make a fuss." Elsa, who stepped down from the referee's seat, stopped the watering can duel between her teammates and opponents, and raised her head with a gloomy face: "It was our mistake, and we accept this result." ”
Finally, it was the turn of Group B, who drew the highest recipe, and unexpectedly, Mira, who was supposed to stand up and taunt Elsa for the first time, suddenly became quiet, lowered her head and didn't say a word, and her hand holding the plate shook slightly.
"Why do you suddenly have a bad premonition?" Mr. Yajma jerked his head up and looked at Mira, who seemed to have come to the stage with a black grudge.