I've been interning at Alliance Bakery in Wicker Park for the past two months and its been great. I absolutely love going to work everyday. The people I get to hang around with are incredible and hard working and I have a great time standing for 12 hours. :D
I started out in the cake room for the first couple weeks and got to make a three tier cake for a client of theirs. I decorated an unfathomable amount of sugar cookies and worked with a few store cakes.
Since then I've been working in the kitchen and, to my surprise, I love it. I was afraid when I started that I would get bored or buckle underneath the pressure of all the production they do in the kitchen, but its exactly the opposite. There's never a dull moment, I'm always laughing about something and I've found an interest for things i didn't expect to. I get to work on everything from cake and cookie batters to doughs, icings, Ganache's, mousses and fillings.
I'm so glad that I've had the privilege to work in such a place, and its going to be really hard to walk out of there for the last time next month. I've met a lot of really funny and interesting people and seen a lot of beautiful work made and walked out the door.
I hope my next job is just as fulfilling.
Kim
