Fondant Cakes

This was by far my most favourite lab. We had been preparing for this for a long time and it took me 6 hourse to complete. Most people used that flowers that we had made previously but I decided to use a completely different theme: Star Wars. We made marshmallow fondant which was much better than the bought stuff but because of the base colour on my cake, I had to buy black fondant.

Fondant Flowers

This lab went on for multiple classes and we learned how to do many different kinds of flowers. This was in preparation for fondant cakes that we were going to do later.

Cake Pops

For our next recipe we made cake pops!! I was really excited to male these because I had seen them so much because of their new popularity. We made regualr white cake and buttercream icing to hold it together once we crumbled it. then we melted candy melts and dipped the cake balls into it and shook off the excess. We then let it cool and added the candies that served at facial features.

Carrot Cake and Buttercream Icing

Our next recipe was carrot cake and buttercram icing that we had already made previously. We baked the carrot cake in egg shaped pans and then used teh icing techniques we had learned to decorate them any way we liked.

Pulla Bread

This was a very different kind of bread that we made. It was a recipe that our teachers had pulled out of the Finnish cook books. I have tried many different kinds of bread but this is by far one of my favourites. It has a different taste but that adds to the uniqueness of it. As you can see, we braided it, which is the traditional was to do it.

Royal Icing Flowers

Using a royal icing recipe we learned to make in class. We were given the difficult task of make flowers with the icing using different tips. I chose to make a rose which didn't turn out that bad.

Cherry Pie Cake Stack

This recipe was really good. We used a white sponge cake recipe with buttercream icing, cherry pie filling and whiped cream that we made. To decorate it we used a regular chocolate sauce. It tasted incredible but was a little on the sweet side. I would definetly make this recipe again!

Cheesecake

So we made one of my favourite things...cheesecake!! This cheescake was really good but the coolis that we made it with (the strawberry sauce you see) made it really sweet which made the whole thing a bit much. Overall it was really great though!

Themed Cakes

So our teacher gave us this project where we were given a cake pan that was in the shape of an animal (monkey) and to make 2 cakes with that one pan. One of the cakes was to be decorated as the animal on the pan and the other was up to us but to use the same shape but a totally different image. We ended up doing cookie monster! Instead of icing the cookies onto the cookie monster cake though, we actually baked some. Turned out awesome!

Cucumber Shark

Garnishing again! This time we made sharks out of cucumbers!

Watermelon Basket

As you know, our group has been working on garnishing and today we used this cool tool  to make a basket out of a small watermelon, really neat!

Noodles with Chicken, Mushrooms, and Snow Peas

This actaully a really good, easy recipe despite the long name, it looks good when plated and tastes really good too.

Apple Birds

So we've started learning how to garnish and today we made birds out of apples. It was really fun but kinda hard becaused of the wax  texture of the apple but overall, a really great project.

Truffles

So today we tried to make truffles but it didn't really work out so we just ended up with this liquidy chocolate mass that didn't actually taste that bad. So we just ate it!

Cupcake Mosaic

Today we made cupcake mosaics with the yellow cupcake and buttercream icing recipe. Our group decided to do a pitcure of Snoopy lying on his house in the middle of winter. It was tons of fun to do and we really enjoyed the project.

Foods Field Trip to the Hyatt

Our Food Art class went on a field trip to the Hyatt before winter break. It was really fun and we saw some really cool gingerbread houses, my favourite was the Wizard of Oz one. We also when for Japadogs!

Homemade Marshmallows

Ingredients:

1 package unflavoured gelatin
80 mL cold ice water, divided into 40 mL each
125 mL sugar
80 mL light corn syrup
one small pinch of salt
1.5 mL vanilla
20 ml icing sugar
20 mL cornstarch

Looking back:

This was a really fun and really sticky project! I definetly recommend this for a rainy day inside!

Banana Splitsville

Ingredients:

Basic Caramel Software:

500 mL sugar
250 mL water
1 tbsp light corn syrup

Caramel Sauce Software:

1 batch caramel (above)
500 mL heavy cream (whipping cream)

Banana Brulee Software:

4 bananas
sugar for coating

Additional Splitsville Software:

Any ice-cream of your choice.

Looking back:

This wa really fun to make and I really enjoyed doing it!

Easy Nut Brittle

Ingredients:
250 mL sugar
125 mL corn syrup
250 mL nuts
5 mL butter
5 ml vanilla
5 mL baking soda

1. Spray cookie sheet with not-stick spray.
2. In a large glass bowl or measuring cup stir sugar, corn syrup and salt with a wooden spoon.
3. Microwave on high until syrup is pale yellow or amber in colour (about 5-8 min).
4. Add nuts and then put back into the microwave 1 minute more.
5. Immediately stir in butter, vanilla, baking soda. The mixture will be foaming.
6. Quickly and carefully pour unto the cookie sheet. Spread the brittle evenly across the cookie sheet.
7. When the brittle is completely cooled, break into pieces.

Looking Back:
This is a fun recipe that takes less than an hour to do. The brittle is reallly good! You have to make sure that you use the clear corn syrup so that you can tell when the solution changes colour.

*Note: In this recipe I used peanuts but you can use any kind of nut you want.