Placement host: Nicole Morais

Placement location: Crave Doughnuts

Helped pack up the van to take stock to the Whtby store, learned the layout of the kitchen and completed the workplace safety checklist.

Started on prep jobs, making pastry cream filling and toppings such as carrot cake and cookies.

More prep jobs, including making carrot cake and the caramel sauce - we learned over time this was my primary skill, and I was dubbed the 'caramel queen'.

Helped decorate cruellers and chopped bacon, among the usual prep jobs of making pastry cream and cheesecake fillings and toppings.

Decorated more doughnuts such as the cosmic brownie with chocolate buttercream and made more fillings. Highlight of the shift was processing an entire bushel of apples.

Aside from the usual prep work, Nicole taught me to use the roller and make the filling for cinnamon rolls. She then taught me how to roll and cut them with floss.

During decoration, I got to fill the doughnuts using the machine filled with pastry cream. I then did the usual prepwork of making fillings and toppings, including chopping bacon.

Usual doughnut decoration and prep work punctuated by making the soak for the tiramisu doughnuts and portioning large trays of brownies for the brownie doughnuts above.

Decorated tres leches doughnuts again, after shaping and pressing apple fritters. Then portioned creamcheese to make lemon cheesecake filling again.

Decorated tres leches doughnuts from start to finish (the above video is the soak, before the chantilly topping), the most labour intensive doughnut. Followed up by the usual prep work, including fillings and caramel sauce.

Decorated doughnuts as usual including the cosmic brownie above, followed by a new filling from the spring menu - the lemon cheesecake filling.