On Tuesday we made quick breads in class, in my group we made Scones, Corn muffins, and Chocolate chip muffins. There were a lot of other kinds of muffins and breads made but basically, the flavors were banana, blueberry, pumpkin and nut. We also made some plane biscuits, tea biscuits, and cheese and herb biscuits. Needless to say we came home with lots of goodies! We learned three different types of mixing methods the biscuit method namely for making biscuits and the like. The muffin method for making muffins pancakes and waffle type things. And, last but not least, the creaming method. This method can be used for muffins and other types of quick breads. The main thing with quick breads is to not over mix (the teacher made this point very adamantly).

I had my birthday yesterday. As funny as it sounds I made two apple pies, on Saturday morning, to go to Mom's house to celebrate my sister in-law and my birthday. We had lots of yummy apple desserts. Saturday we had apple dumplings, that my sister in-law made; they were really good by the way!! Then on Sunday everyone sang to both of us and we had apple pie and ice cream as well as a jello poke cake. I got a really nice tie from my youngest sister.
It was a very nice weekend. We all had a lot of fun. Other then an incident with my daughter and the emergency room. My youngest daughter had an ear infection that we did not catch and Saturday her ear started oozing. So needless to say we took her to the hospital and she is now on antibiotics and getting better (I think more because the pressure on her ear is not there, but what do I know).

Here are the two pies I made, they tasted better then they look and they look pretty good to me.

I've had pretty bad cold the last few days, so I have not been able to post anything for a while. The week before last we made yeast Doughnuts and cake Doughnuts some of the Yeast raised doughnuts were filled with Bavarian cream with a chocolate glaze, those were amazing. I ate one of the glazed Krispy Kreme style doughnuts in class, and they were melt in your mouth good. I gave most of the doughnuts that I brought home away so I wouldn't turn into a blimp. Each student in the class took home around 22 doughnuts, that's why I gave half of them away.

Last week we made Danish dough and soft pretzels. The pretzels were a lot easier to make then I thought they would be, and forming them was fun.
The Danish dough we had to do over the span of two classes because of time constraints, so last week we made the dough and rolled in the fat (we used a combination of butter and high ratio shortening) and then we gave the dough three, three folds this gives the Danish dough 135 layers, which also gives it the flakiness.

This week we made up the Danishes and Croissants from the dough we made last week. We made several different types; some with filling, some without. But each one came out flaky and yummy. As I described in the slide show to the right, we made some really good looking pastries and they tasted as good or better then they looked.

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