Birthday Cupcake Baking Extravaganza with Ashley

Monday 3 June 2013

#13 Mexicali pizza wheel

We made a Mexicali pizza wheel today. We made a dough with yeast and put it in the refrigerator to make it rise. On the second day, we cooked grounded meat with garlic, tomato sauce, some spices, and beans. After that, we cut the middle of the dough by a star, and T shape. We put the meat mixture, some Maxican peppers and cheese and we folded the middle. It looked really good but it tested like nothing. If I were to make this recipe again, I would put more spices, peppers, and more salt.

#12 Doughnuts

I was so excited about this recipe and was hoping to see really good doughnuts like they have at Tim Horton's. The first thing we did was making a dough. We used yeast, flour, and water to make the dough. We put it in the refrigerator for a day to make it rise. On the second day, we cut the dough out of the doughnut cutter and we deep- fried them. It was our first time deep-frying things in our baking class so it was really fun. After, we dipped them into the vanila mixture and chocolate mixture and sprinkled them with some coloured sugar. It was really fun to make doughnuts. The only thing I did not like about was the sugar we used for sprinkles. Otherwise, it was really good.


#11 Cream puffs

This is one of my favourite recipes! I was so excited to make cream puffs and could not wait to eat them! This time, we made our dough differently. We put  flour, margarine, egg and vanila together on the heat and stirred it until it formed a dough, instead of cutting fat into dry ingredients. Then, we placed a spoonful of each on the cookie sheet and baked them. After the dough was ready, we made a whole on each puff and put whipped cream inside. We drizzled the melted dark chocolate on the top which made it look really great. The cream puffs we made tested so good and I want to make it again!

#10 Apple pie

Today we made an apple pie. We cut the apple into slices and boiled with the sugar, cinnamon, and water. We made a dough by cutting fat into it. Then, we rolled it out and placed it on the pie plate and filled it with the apple filling. We got a perfect golden brown on the top and it  tasted so good. I don't really like apple pies but this one was really good because our dough turned out very good:  nice golden brown crust.

#9 Peach Cobbler

We made a peach cobbler. We mixed suger with the canned peach and put it on the bottom of the casserole dish. We made a dough and then covered the peach mixture with the dough on the top. I had never tried this before so it was very new for me. I really liked it and it was sweet.

#8 Pizza Scones

This is the first product we made for the biscuits unit. We sauted onions with margarnine and brown sugar and made the dough by cutting fats into the dry ingredients. We put the toppings including the onion mixture, green peppers, olives, pepporoni, and some cheese. I did not like the taste of the onion mixture because it was too sweet that it did not taste like a pizza. If I were to make this again, I would not add suger while sauting the onions. Otherwise, it tasted good and was fun and easy to make.




Thursday 18 April 2013

#7 Healthy Cookie Challenge - Coconut Banana Cookies

This lab was a " healthy cookie challenge". Each group had to change some parts of the recipe to make more healthy, nutritious, and delicious cookies. My group reduced the amount of fat and put yogurt to replace the fat. To reduce the sugar, we used brown sugar and  mushed bananas. We also put oatmeal, coconut and chopped walnuts.We combined butter, yogurt and sugar together. Then we put all the dry ingredients and the liquid ingredients together in a separate mixing bowl and then mixed them together. It looked really tasty but when I ate it, it felt like it was too dry and it just tested like bananas. Next time, I would put less bananas and more coconut. This lab was really exciting and challenging because we could make our own "healthy cookies".