WATCH: Clayton Ritz's Chef Faure Reveals Mother's Day Cake Secrets
In this video, Executive Pastry Chef Simone Faure shows how to create buttons, belts and bows for a truly special tiered cake. Plus, find out how this former New Orleans resident arrived at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis.
Attention all Mother's Day gift seekers: Executive Pastry Chef Simone Faure teaches cake-decorating classes at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis in downtown Clayton. Faure came to St. Louis for a change of scenery. She learned to bake in New Orleans, her home city whose Ritz-Carlton she worked at previously. The chef went to school to become a kosher chef, but those plans changed when she came to appreciate the attention to ritual and tradition needed to succeed in that field. "I was delusional," Faure said. "I am not a creature of habit." Transition to cakes So halfway through her culinary training, she switched to cakes. Her favorite cake accoutrements include buttons (it's the "old Southern lady" in her, she said). In the video attached to …
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