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This week was the pay off for last week’s hard work! We took our thawed cakes and beat them together with some frosting to make these delicious and delightful cake pops! The key to cake pops we discovered, is to ensure that the cake and frosting mix is nice and cold. This was easier forContinue reading “Week 11 – Cake Pops!!!”

This week was a busy one – we baked two cakes and got them in the freezer so that next week we can make cake pops, but not wanting to go home empty handed we also managed to make some baked donut holes! These little donuts are reminiscent of being at the carnival – butContinue reading “Week 10 – Baked Donut Holes!”

This week we made cinnamon buns with a delicious cream cheese frosting! Cinnamon buns come in two varieties: the kind made with yeast will be light and bready, the kind without are richer, more like a pie crust! The yeast variety requires quite a bit of rise time, which doesn’t work with our timeline, soContinue reading “Week 9 – Cinnamon Buns!”

This week we made decadent brownies, and because not everyone is a chocolate fan – we also made some scrumptious blondies! Both recipes turned out great – though our time restraints meant they came out a little extra fudgey. In our 9×9 glass pans, they could have used a little extra time, and, if youContinue reading “Week 8- Brownies, Blondies, & Caramel Lace Tuiles”

This week was our long awaited cupcake decorating week! Last week we baked enough chocolate and vanilla cupcakes for every to have 3 cupcakes to practice their decorating skills on this week. The colourful creations were absolutely incredible! Here are our cupcake recipes – we needed to keep it pretty simple to maximize our output.Continue reading “Week 7 -Decorating Cupcakes!”

Last week when we made our puff pastry pinwheels, we also made some puff pastry cheese straws, but didn’t have time to bake them. So we tossed them in the freezer and this week we started our class by popping them in the oven and having a tasty snack! The recipe for the homemade puffContinue reading “Week 6 – Eating Cheese Straws and Baking Cupcakes”

This week we used the puff pastry we rolled out last week to create some scrumptious puff pastry pinwheels! We ran into a little trouble when we realized we should have let our pastry thaw in the fridge over night – as after a few hours in the fridge it was still pretty hard. ThisContinue reading “Week 5 – Puff Pastry Pinwheels”

This week we decided to take on a double duty! We bought pizza dough and learned how to work with the dough to shape it into personal pizzas, while also making our own puff pastry from scratch to bake with next week. Pizza dough is actually quite easy to make at home, but like allContinue reading “Week 4 – Personal Pizzas (and Puff Pastry Dough)”

Last week we made sugar cookie dough and froze it so that this week we bake our cookies and decorate them. We worked on evenly rolling out the dough and found it can be quite tricky! We chose a range of shapes – unicorns, snowflakes, circles, flowers, and little cardinals. Ideally we would have bakedContinue reading “Week 3 – Sugar Cookies”

What makes a GREAT chocolate chip cookie? This week we tested two different chocolate chip cookie recipes to see which produced the better result. The results are in and chocolate chip cookie recipe #2 is the winner! (9 of 13 participants said this was the better cookie, with 4 participants finding both recipes equally delicious).Continue reading “Week 2 – Chocolate Chip Cookie BAKE OFF”