Cream Puffs, Bazaars, Brownie cookies, Fish, and ice cream? x0

Hello everyone!

Recaps, recaps! Haha photobucket has been mean to me the past few days and didn't want to upload pictures, but really I just forgot to take a lot of them, but I will bring us up to date with words! x0

So two Thursdays ago in baking class we made a ton of cream puffs for this event we were putting on. We made savory ones and sweet ones, but I'm just not really a fan of them either way. x0

Then on that Sunday we had a Holiday bazaar at the campus. Our culinary club had a table and I had to support them by buying, and trying to eat this giant moose cupcake!



It was a twinkie dipped in chocolate over a cupcake that was frosted. The ears were made of tootsie rolls, and the antlers were pipped chocolate (remember I did those a few weeks ago in Pastry Tube art? ^ _^ ) and the eyes were m&ms! So much sugar! x0

On Tuesday for Pastry Tube art we made chocolate butter cookies, and gingersnaps, again! We were supposed to make snickerdoodles but the chef didn't have a recipe, and didn't want to look for one, so we resorted to gingersnaps. I think they tasted better this time around though! The chocolate butter cookies were amazing too, they tasted like a warm, gooey brownie to me!: )

On Wednesday our main chef was sick so the next chef in line took his place to teach the class. We learned how to cook fish in different ways, grill shrimp, and saute and simmer broccoli!



Looks good huh? : P

Finally this past Thursday we made ice cream and ice cream sauces!! I made vanilla bean ice cream, and it was pretty amazing in my opinion! I also made dark chocolate sauce, but I didn't really like it because I had to put in orange extract, and I'm not a fan of orange and chocolate together. Other teams made pumpkin ice cream, and caramel ice cream and caramel, strawberry, and milk chocolate sauce. It was a tasty day!

I've also had some good Chinese food, sneaks of ice cream at Cold Stones, a pint of Ben and Jerry's, and some good coffee among many other things these past 12 days since I last blogged!

I will try and keep more up to date! I will, I will! : )

XOXO,

Lizzie! : )

Oreo Brownies and Cookies!

Happy November!

I was bored the first day of the month, so I decided to bake! I wanted oreos, and peanut butter, and chocolate, so I made peanut butter chocolate oreo brownies and giant chocolate oreo cookies! : )

I found the brownie recipe here: http://www.cookiemadness.net/2008/09/outrageous-oreo-brownies/


Brownie Ingredients!


Hmmm chocolate and butter! : )


Yay for brownie batter! ^_^


Oooh baked brownies! : )


Look how awesome it looks! : P

I also made cookies and I got the recipe from here!: http://sugarcooking.blogspot.com/2009/07/oreo-cookie-cookies.html



Oooh giant, tasty cookies!


Yay for giant cookies!! ^_^

I made so much stuff and it smelled so good that I had about twenty random people coming in asking if they could have some! : ) Baking is awesome!!

Love,

Lizzie!

Starbucks...

... Makes nummy snacks! : P



Pssst, I make better coffee cake though! ; )

Love,

Lizzie!

Moose Antlers?

Hey everyone! Today's Pastry Tube art class went a lot better then last week! This week we pipped chocolate into moose antlers to go on the top of some cupcakes our school is going to try and sell for the holiday bazzar that is coming up! The chef needed it to get done, and aha since we are in pastry tube art, and they get pipped out, we got the task of getting the job done! x0







Yay for moose antlers!!

We went through so many pastry bags made with parchment paper, and the chocolate was so hot I'm sure none of us have fingertips anymore!!





The chef had to break done about three giant slabs of chocolate to get the job done!

Finally after two hours of pipping, the chef got out some cookies from the freezer, dipped them in the leftover chocolate, and sent us on our way! : )



^_^

Lizzie!

Smore Brownies! : )

Hey everyone! I woke up wanting to bake! I really wanted to make coffee cake, or pecan bars, but they both call for a ridiculous amount of brown sugar, and I have barley a 1/3 of a cup left! The bus doesn't run here on Sundays so I couldn't go to the store to pick and up so I looked at my baking shelf to she what I had. I had chocolate, graham crackers, marshmallows, which equaled one thing, smore's! : )

I hunted online for a great smore brownie recipe and here is what I found:
http://foodietwoshoes.com/wordpress/2009/09/11/a-last-summer-treat/

I changed it up a bit to go with what I like, so with further ado here are some amazing smore brownies!

CRUST:

~ 6 whole graham crackers, broken into small pieces
~ 3 tablespoons sugar
~ 3 tablespoons butter, melted

BROWNIES:

~ 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
~ 1/ 3 cup dark chocolate chips (I used two dark chocolate bars)
~ 8 tablespoons butter, melted
~ 3 tablespoons cocoa powder (I used dark cocoa powder)
~ 3 large eggs
~ 1 ¼ cups sugar
~ 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
~ ½ teaspoon salt
~ 1 cup all-purpose flour

TOPPING:

~ Marshmallows (I used full sized ones)

1) Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Line your pan with parchment paper (allowing edges to extend over sides). First, melt the butter in the microwave for about 20 seconds. Then remove the bowl and put your graham crackers in a bag and squish them into crumbs. Add the crumbs, and the sugar to the melted butter bowl and then mix together until moist crumbs form. Press crumbs evenly onto the parchment paper in the bottom of the prepared pan. Bake crust until light golden brown, about eight minutes.

2) In a heatproof bowl melt the chocolates and butter in the microwave until smooth. Remove and stir in the cocoa powder until combined. Set aside to cool.

3) In a medium bowl, combine the eggs, sugar, vanilla and salt, and strip until combined. Stir in the warm chocolate mixture until incorporated. Then stir in the flour until just combined. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and spread with a spatula to make an even layer. Bake until slightly puffed and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with a small amount of sticky crumbs clinging to it, about 40 minutes.

(Ready to go in the oven!)

(The messy dishes I washed while they were baking!)

While the brownies were baking, I washed up my dishes and looked over my new dorm kitchen. This one was bigger than my other one, and it had a lot of cute signs everywhere!

(Ahhh they are all so cute!)

(Before the marshmallows were toasted)

4) When they are finished baking, remove the pan from the oven, and preheat the oven to broil. Top the brownies with the marshmallows, making an even layer. Place the pan on the rack and make sure your are paying attention! I put them in for about 1 minute, and they caught on fire! I had to turn the oven off, fan them down, and blow on them to get the fire out! The whole time I was like plllllease fire alarm don't go off, PLEASE! x0 Haha so I'd say they only need about 30 seconds, perhaps, crack the door open and just watch them! As soon as the marshmallows have a nice brown crust, remove them from the oven. Let cool completely before attempting to remove from pan and cutting.

Tada! The finished result! (after I scrapped off the burnt marshmallows and parchment paper! x0 )

They were pretty awesome in my opinion! The slight burntness in some of the bites really made me think of a real campfire! I had a lot of fun making these, but I lost a few years of my life in fear of burning down my dorm! Watch the marshmallows! Xp

Love you all!!

Lizzie!

PS: Marshmallows make everyone happy. While I was baking about 4 boys came in going oooh I smelled these all the way from the 5th floor! Ahhh the power of baking! ; )

Eggs, eggs, oh and did I mention eggs? : )

Hey everyone! Woo it's been a busy, busy, busy ten days since I last posted!

First, I moved out of my old dorm room, and into a new one with a Subway in it AND an ICE CREAM VENDING MACHINE! Hecccck yeah. ; )

Then, I got a job at COLDSTONE'S! Yay! I'm surrounded by lovely ice cream a few days a week now, it's great! I have gone in a few days and I just LOVE it so far! It is fun making all those creations, and shakes/smoothies! I also love making the ice cream cakes! I don't even mind doing the dishes since I do them so much in my Culinary classes, it's like psh easy! : P

On Tuesday my morning classes were canceled but I went in anyway to help make about 230 sandwiches for an event that was going on later that day! I never want to see turkey or American cheese ever again! Haha! On Tuesday night I had another Pastry Tube art class where we pipped butter using a star tip to be used for a function that is coming up! We also learned how to make carnations, I have to sing "down up twist, down up twist!" to make them, haha no one seemed to mind though! x0

Eggs! Ahh! Haha I actually took pictures of Wednesday! We had to make eggs six different ways and show our chef! Here's my finished tray!


Haha that darn poached egg took me about five tries! I burned it the first time, and then I kept breaking the yolk when I flipped it, but I finally did it! : )


Here's my omelet in the process of being made!

After we 'mastered' the art of egg making, we moved onto breakfast foods! My group made pancakes! Plain, blueberry, chocolate, and chocolate blueberry! Yummy!


Our batter!

We had a feast of pancakes, waffles, quiche, and french toast! Oh, and of course EGGS! x0

Now today (Thursday) was my baking class! We made cookies, yum! My group made peanut butter and twiles! Other groups made two different chocolate chips, shortbreads, sugar cookies, lady fingers, macaroons, and more! I had so many cookies today, but they were all so good!

So tired now! I worked at Coldstone's and came home to do homework and am now finally done! Going to go internet around before heading to bed! See you all in Dreamland!!

Love,

Lizzie!

PS aren't I cute in a hair net? x0

Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies... oh my! : )

Hey everyone! I FINALLY found dark chocolate cocoa powder! I was so excited I came right back to my dorm and whipped up these amazing dark chocolate peanut butter cookies! I literally ate ten of them by myself, they are that good!

(Recipe found at: http://jennymacslipsmack.blogspot.com/2009/07/marriage-made-in-heaven.html ) : )



You'll need:

1 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 3/4 cups flour
1 1/4 cups cocoa powder (I used Hershey's Dark Chocolate Cocoa Powder)
2 tsps. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 bag of Reese's Peanut Butter Chips
1 cup dark chocolate chips
1 cup lightly salted peanuts

NOW!:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and get a cookie sheet that is non stick (or use parchment paper like I did!)

2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Slowly add eggs and vanilla until well combined.



3. In a medium sized bowl, combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Slowly add to wet ingredients then stir (with all your might!) in the two different chips, and the peanuts. Then form into desired scoops and place about two inches apart on the cookie sheet. (I did two batched with six large cookies, and one batch with 12 smaller cookies)



4. Bake for 12-15 minutes (original said 9-11 but my oven must suck because it took about 12 to 15 minutes for mine!) , should still be soft in center (and gooey!). Let the cookies rest in the fridge for about five to seven minutes or else they will go everywhere! (I cleaned, and cleaned, and cleaned that kitchen. x0)



Now ENJOY!! : )



(Yummm sugar!) ^_^

Love you all!

Lizzie!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Ice Cream!

We made some today!

Just make simple vanilla ice cream, and when it is almost done add chocolate syrup and Reese's Peanut Butter cups! Ammmmazing! I had a big bowl full while watching the second Lord of the Rings movie, only one more to go!

I'm also really excited! I am going on vacation from next Friday until July 28th! I may not be able to post a lot while I'm gone, but I will have plenty to talk about when I return home! I am going to try to go to the amazing places I have heard about while reading blogs, and sample lots of tasty treats! I can't wait to share with everyone!

Love,

Lizzie!

Happy Birthday... late!

So my brother's birthday was in the beginning of May, and I never made him anything (sorry about that!) So today, I made him a chocolate sheet cake, with vanilla chocolate chip icing! We also whipped up a batch of homemade chocolate chip ice cream to go with it! But the fun doesn't stop there! My friend gave me some Monster cookie dough! It was basically oats, peanut butter, chocolate chips, and M&Ms all in one cookie! I baked up a dozen of those and we all had cake and ice cream (or ice cream with cookies in my sake) while watching a movie of my brothers choice- The Lord of the Rings! Haha it was tasty, and fun and now I can't wait to watch the second and third movie, while of course chowing down on some sweets!

Love,

Lizzie!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars...

... were AMAZING!!!

I had three of them today, and I wanted to eat the whole pan! They were just like peanut butter pie, but much lighter... hence how I was able to eat three of them and still want more! I'm going to get so sick off these, I must get rid of them! They are so good you won't want them around! ; )

Love,

Lizzie!

Vanilla ice cream!

Gosh were have all the days gone?! I can't believe I graduated two weeks ago!

Since then, all I've really done is watched a lot of tv, spent time with my family, worked as an aide at summer preschool, and ate a lot of yummy food!

Speaking of food, I'm like OBSESSED with ice cream! I would eat it for every meal if I could. x0 So today, my mom asked if I wanted to try to make homemade ice cream, and I of course said "YES!!!" We decided to make plain ole vanilla to start off, and if we liked it we would try other flavors later. Not only did I like it, I LOOOOVED it! It was so thick and creamy, like a custard! It was delicious! I can't wait to make more ice cream, and hopefully bake some more stuff soon! : )

So if you just want to have some simple, but tasty vanilla ice cream here you go!!



Ingredients:
3/4 cup sugar

1/8 tsp salt

1 3/4 cups whole milk (we used half and half)

2 eggs, beaten

1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream

1 tsp vanilla extract

(Haha I hope I remembered that correctly!) x0

Directions:
1. In a saucepan, combine sugar, salt, and milk. Cook over medium heat stirring occasionally until mixture is almost boiling. Reduce heat to low.
2. In medium bowl, slightly beat eggs. Slowly whisk half of the hot mixture into the eggs and pour back into saucepan. Cook over medium-low heat until slightly thick. Remove from heat and refrigerate for two hours.
3. When ready to freeze, stir in heavy cream and vanilla extract into the chilled custard mixture. Start ice cream maker and pour mixture through hole in lid. Freeze until you just can't wait any longer!

I had a nice big bowl of tasty ice cream, covered in chocolate syrup, chocolate chips, and half a peanut butter twix bar (my favorite!) : )

I love you all, and sorry I don't post haha I will try harder I swear!!

Loooove

Lizzie! ^_^

Plain ole chocolate chip cookies... again!

Yep, I made plain chocolate chip cookies again. I am applying for scholarships and I needed a reference letter so I "bribed" the person by telling them I would make them cookies when I was done! : ) No surprise, all they wanted was plain, ole chocolate chip cookies, so I went to the pantry to get the ingredients to make them. To my surprise though, we were out of brown sugar, chocolate chips, and butter, and we only had a few eggs as well. I told my parents I would just make them on Wednesday night instead (oh yeah I made these Tuesday night, haha I procrastinate with my blog sometimes. xo ) but my dad put on his coat and went out to get me the supplies I need. He not only got one of each thing, but he got a lot of extras as well so I could make more cookies for him. Nice one dad! : P Well anywho I made them and I had to test them with a giant bowl of ice cream (of course!) 

Woo exciting, exciting! Speaking of exciting, I only have one more week of high school after this week! Annnd, prom is this Saturday, wooot! Can't wait for fun to come! 

Love you all! 

Lizzie 

Chocolate Chip Cookies, Plain and simple!

Goood morning! (yay more brother does read my blog, happy, happy!) x0

Annnywho, last night I was soooo bored, and wanted to bake. I wanted to make oatmeal cookies, but I asked my mom what she wanted. She thought for a while, and then said she really wanted a simple chocolate chip cookie. I asked if she wanted oatmeal, but she said no, she simply wanted a CC cookie. Usually I don't like making boring, plain cookies. I like adding tons of things to them, I never make plain brownies either, but since my mom wanted them, I made them. 

All you need is the back of a chocolate chip bag (well and the ingredients as well. x0) And you will too will have about two and a half dozen cookies (or more if you actually make them smaller, I like big cookies! : P ) 

Yum nothing better than a warm cookie with some ice cream. <>

Love you mom, and thanks for making me slow down and be simple once in a while! ^_^

Looove

Lizzie!