Busy Night in Baking and Pastry

I am out of class and parked on my bench out side of my husbands job at Cartier. I am exhausted. Tonight we made peanut butter cookies, almond tea cookies, and brownies.

The first thing we did was watch a movie on cookies and then watched a demo on how to make our brownies. Then we were off and running. Most of today was group work, so Brian and I teamed up. We switched off mixing things and doing dishes.

Once the brownies were in the oven we all joined back up to watch the demo on peanut butter cookies. These cookies were our one individual project since we will be doing them again for our practical in a week. Once we finished the demo we made our cookies, got them in the oven, did dishes, then went on a short break.

I spent my break hunting down my English teacher. I was finally able to meet up with her so that I could get my last paper from her. I pulled out an A on that paper.

Once I got back to class our cookies and brownies were out of the oven.

Then we watched a demo on the almond tea cookies. I was really excited to do these cookies since they are a piped cookie. So we pulled out our piping bags and went to work. Even though this one was a group project I did the bulk of it for a couple of reasons. One, they are my favorite type of cookies, and two I had the most experience between the two of us with piping. Brian did a little bit of piping to get a feel for it and then I went to town piping out rosettes and fluer di lis. Once the tray was filled, we popped them into the oven and went to work cleaning.

Once we were done cleaning Chef pulled us together one more time to explain how to make French bread dough. Once he finished his demo he realized we had more than enough time to get our loafs started so they could rest over night. So, we went ahead and made our dough, got it in the fridge, then finished up the last of the cleaning. Once we finished and chef did a quick inspection we were released to go our separate ways.

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Baking and Pastry: Day 2

Tonight was fun and challenging.After we listened to tonight's lecture on quick breads we made the dough for our Jalapeno Cheddar Biscuits. Then we made the batter for our two different types of pound cake, chocolate chip and chocolate vanilla swirl. Once we had our pound cakes in the oven it was time for a break which really meant dishes. I spent my entire 15 minute break doing dishes when I needed to get to my English class to grab my paper. Sadly I didn't get it tonight. Hopefully tomorrow I will have a chance. Once break was over we rolled out our biscuits and threw them in the oven. Fifteen minutes later we had the most amazing and delicious Jalapeno Cheddar Biscuits I have ever had.

After we got those done we started measuring out our ingredients for tomorrow. Tomorrow we are making Peanut Butter Cookies, Almond Tea Cookies, and Brownies. While I was in the middle of collecting everything our pound cakes were ready to come out of the oven. Thankfully Brian was helping out while I was measuring so he pulled out my pound cakes and my biscuits. The chocolate chip pound cake sadly fell apart a little since a chunk stuck to the pan. I was pretty upset but got over it really quick when I realized a bunch of people were having the same problem.

The chocolate and vanilla swirled cake on the other hand came out beautifully. I was thrilled!

Once I was able to get everything measured for tomorrow we cleaned up and headed out. I ran over to my English class real quick only to discover I had missed my teacher so I headed for my car. On my way to my car I learned that we can exit all the doors now we just can't enter them. I hope that doesn't last much longer, but I have a feeling it will be.