New Years Birthday!

Hey guys! Happy 2011!! We spent New Years eating homemade pizza, veggie trays, and candy, candy, cookies, oh and did I mention candy? x0 We also spent time playing board games and then rock band till about two in the morning! Fun, fun!

The next day, on the 1st, I went to friend Amber's Birthday party! We had a lot of fun ringing in her birthday!


Her birthday cake!


Her cake after we got through with it! : )


The ice cream was so hard me had to microwave it!


Yummm ice cream! : P


Oooh syrup! : )


Candy canes!!

I had a lot of fun on break, but now I am back at college ready for my 2nd semester in Culinary school! I am taking 4 culinary classes this year! Culinary 2, Menu planning, Nutrition, and Food+ Beverage service! I can't wait to start!! I will try to keep you guys updated as much as possible with my hectic life! Oh yeah and there is always Cold Stone to look forward to too!!

Love you all!!

Lizzie! ^_^

Thanksgiving and More!!

Hey everyone! Haha I always think I'm never going to let myself get behind on blogging, but darn college and work takes my "extra" time away! So here's what's been happening the past twoish or so weeks! : )

First, the week of Thanksgiving the weather was terrible and all my classes were canceled. We were basically trapped in our dorms for three days, ahhh! : P My parents were able to come visit us though and we had a great time! My parents brought up most of the food, but my brother and I got the pie materials and the turkey. I spent all Wednesday night baking! I made two pumpkin pies, one pecan pie, and a chocolate pie for my dad! : ) Then on Thursday we cooked all day and sat down to a great dinner. Then we went black friday shopping, and on Saturday I worked at Cold Stones and my parents left on Sunday! : ( I miss them so much, but I can't wait to see them again during Christmas break. Yay!! ^_^


Our full fridge!


Putting toppings on corn casserole.


Some of our feast! : )


Full, full, full!! : )


The pies I made.

My parents also came to see me at Cold Stones! They took pictures, ordered ice cream and shakes, and made my co workers and I sing! Ahh thanks guys! : P < 3




Last Tuesday was my last Pastry Tube art class! We made pastry cream and piped them into swans and stuck them together using pastry cream. Easy and fun! : )



During cooking on Wednesday we had a dairy and cheese day! My group made mac and cheese! Other groups made alfredo, fondue, and souffles and we also had a cheese plate with a bunch of different cheeses to try, yum!

Finally, on Thursday we made low fat cakes. My partner and I made a chiffon type cake and others made different chiffons, angel food cakes, sponge rolls, and icings and different creams. We tasted all the cakes from two weeks ago and thursdays and we also had ice cream that we made in the past! : )

These next two weeks are my finals week and my last week this year working at Cold Stone! I had my Sanitation final today and I have my practical for baking and Cooking tomorrow and Thursday. Then next week I have four more written finals! I'm busy studying!!

I will try to keep more up to date though! Pinky promise!! : )

Love,

Lizzie!

Starbucks...

... Makes nummy snacks! : P



Pssst, I make better coffee cake though! ; )

Love,

Lizzie!

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

Pecan Bars!

Made them last night and they were TASTY! ... but I'm a lazy blogger who did not take pictures of the process! Haha just trying to keep you up to date with what I've been baking! Up next either banana bread or carrot cake cupcakes which I will provide a recipe and pictures!

Loooove you!

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!

Graduate!

Woo hey everyone! I'm sorry I haven't posted in so long, I've been reallllly busy!

I am now a high school graduate! Yay! I graduated on Friday night and then had a graduation party. All my friends came and it was great. We just hung out and ate some AMAZING pie! ; ) (Thanks mom! ). Then on Saturday I went to my friends Graduation party where we just played DDR and spent time together for a few hours before we went and roasted marshmallows on the beach. On Sunday my mom made us all blueberry pancakes and I had some more pie AND ice cream! Haha.

I haven't really baked much in a while except a cake for my mom to take to her birthday buddy at work, but now that I am out of school and it's the summer I will have more time! My parents got me a great looking cookbook for my graduation and my brother really wanted me to make Smore Brownies, so hopefully I will be baking soon!

Thanks for anyone who stops by!!

Looove

Lizzie!

Baking, baking!

I'm here, I swear, I swear! 

Haha I haven't really been all that busy, I've just been lurking around other baking blogs instead of updating my own. x0 I made a coffee cake for my best friends sweet sixteen on Sunday. I tested a piece of it, you know to make sure it wasn't gross or anything, and gosh it is the best coffee cake ever, I could eat it every meal of the day and never get tired of it! XP It taste really good for breakfast just to tell everyone. ; ) 

Then last night I made some simple chocolate brownies for my friend because he is always helping me out and instead of letting me pay him he likes baked goods, so I'm happy to oblige! 

: ) 

Now all I need to do is actually have my camera out and document that I really do bake. x0 

Love you allllll! 

Lizzie 

Another bakesale, oh my!

Woo just got done baking for four hours! Today my choir class were bought uniforms, but we learned we have to pay the school back. Instead of paying about 50 dollars each, we are going to have a bakesale to try and earn the money! I made 2 dozen M&M cookies, 2 dozen peanut butter cookies, and 5 dozen vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting. I hope the other girls made some good stuff too so we can make all the money we need and maybe even some extra! : )

I also baked an amazing coffee cake today! Tomorrow I am having a hang out with all my best friends. We are going to make... NACHOS! Haha nope no pizza for us this week, we are broadening our horizons and making something different. We are also going to watch some movies and finally eat some coffee cake that will hopefully make Starbucks jealous! ; )

I may take some pictures of the bakesale stuff and the party food if I'm not lazy, so stay tuned!
: P

Loooove

Lizzie!

FALL into SPRING!

Hola from the sugar queen. 0_0 Haha, anyway I had a great Valentines day. After being waken up at ten in the morning from a woodpecker (grr!) I spent most of the day watching the Food Network, and then flipping to the Winter Olympics! Woo chocolate AND figure skating, what a day! Then tonight we ate steak, which I usually don't like but it had this AMAZING sauce on it, which made it great! But the cherry on top of the nice love day, was the flourless chocolate cake we had. It was gooey, and covered in homemade whipped cream! I ate it with a giant smile on my face, and I didn't even think about taking a picture! x0 So, instead of seeing my valentine dinner, I think I will show the top ten food pictures of the past! Might as well show my past before I move on to give you all new stuff! : )

10.
Here is some amazing fall goodies I made for a Thanksgiving bakesale.

9.
Say 'hello' to chef Lizzie!

8.
It's a sweet TV dinner! It's made out of cupcakes and candy!

7.
I'm so cool, instead of a Halloween pumpkin, I had a Halloween watermelon! ; )

6.
Frankenstein Lizzie? x0

5.
Baking for a bakesale with my great friends M and A! : )

4.
We serve food under pressure, while showing we're peaceful about it! XP

3.
Gingerbread man lost his foot!

2.
Corn on the cob, made from cupcakes and candy!

1.
I am the ice cream queen!

Well there we go, some wonderful pictures of my food past. I can't wait to post more as soon as possible!

Love,

Lizzie