The cooking weekend

I made some yummy carrot cupcakes on Friday for Father’s Day. The little carrots on top were fun to shape and roll in cinnamon “dirt”.

There were some left over to share at the Fort on Saturday!

The event was a big cooking competition. It was a cold dreary summer day, and there were very few volunteers and visitors. It was a slow day that I spent mostly chatting :)

It was painful torture to sit in front of the judges and watch them taste all of the delicious food that was prepared! There were about eight entries I think, and they all looked fabulous.

 

Hope you’re weekend was as tasty as mine :) Off to find a new recipe to try for a birthday tomorrow!

~Sophia

Today's Culinary Arts Class

Today's assignments were: Make chocolate roses from couverture chocolate and make a perfect cake. My 14 yr old sister made the roses and I made the "perfect cake". I think it turned out great! It's a lemon flavored cake with a tight crumb; raspberry preserves; and light, creamy, fluffy, lemony buttercream frosting; and the cake is sprinkled with sweetened shredded coconut. It only needs strawberry preserves to be my perfect cake.
I was joking to Mama that if I ever got married and had children, my family would be rather fat because I like to bake so much. Hopefully we're almost through this culinary arts cycle; I'm feeling fat myself.

Take a look:Slicing,

Spreading,

Layering,

Ta-da! Finished product! I'm making a tutorial because Mama took so many pictures. Let me know if you want me to post it.

Here's my sister's project: couverture chocolate roses.

White chocolate mixture. Melted and molded,

Chilled and rolled out,

Colored, cut,

Shaped,

Voila! Aren't they gorgeous? We thought that she had brought in some roses for reference, but it's still winter! I love the one on the far left.

~Sophia

Summer Busy

This week of mine has been busy busy busy. Some of it's been lazy busy and some of it's been busy busy, if that makes any sense.

Today will be busy as well.
1. I need to clean out two wading pools in the front with my sis, because they have algae and mosquito larvae in them. You know how to kill mosquito larvae? We tried bleach and then oil. The bleach was supposed to poison them, but it just turned their skin paler. The oil worked though because it suffocated them. So now we can dump and scrub.

2. I need to finish the neckline on my dress. Then I only have to attach the waist piping then attach the skirt.

3. I need to make french bread, rolls, cake and bread for slicing.

4. I want, but probably won't get to finish an art project I had going.

5. I need to do more Algebra today as well.

Here's a random picture of cake I made a few weeks ago when I went on a baking craze. I want to make another carrot cake today.


Anyway, I'll be signing out now, I need to get cracking.

Ah, summer!