Del Mar College culinary student cooks the competition
AJ Willingham’s lemon olive oil cake took home the golden ticket this year at the Texas Food Championship. Willingham, baking/pastry major who competed for the first time, practiced by making a lemon olive oil cake with lemon curd, pistachio mascarpone cream topped with a pistachio crumble, all of which sits on top of a blueberry compote. According to Willingham, since this was her first time entering any baking competition her biggest challenge was just being in an unfamiliar setting. “Just being there and doing it in a different setting than where I’ve been practicing,” Willingham explained of the change. The…
