Day 6 - Cupcakes (intermediate)- Ariela

 

Cupcakes - Intermediate group

We started the day off by splitting into three groups for our three cupcakes: humming bird, strawberry, and chocolate. Since we only had one set of pans we had to take turns making the cake. while the first group was making the cake, the rest of us were working on the frosting. We had buttercream frosting and cream cheese frosting. We started off by collecting all of our ingrediants and then began to make the frosting in the mixers. 
This is Tori cleaning as he's baking
This is Imaar, Carson,
and Mateo working
with Chef Jessica to
make their frosting
Getting our ingredients laid out


once the group was finished making their batter, they began scooping onto the pan and put them in the oven for 20 minutes. While their cakes where in the oven, the rest of us began to collect the ingrediants fro our batter. once we had our ingrediants, we began to mix the batter. we made sure to be cleaning our statioss as we were baking. Once our batter was done, the other groups cakes were finshed so we were able to wadh the pans and start scoopin our batter into the pan. while our cakes were in the oven, we all began to clean the kitchen and take a break. when they wer eout of the oven we took them out to cool off. 

Tori and Mads working with Chef
Jessica to scoop their batter in the pan
This is Sofi prepping
ingredients for the batter
This is the frosting for the strawberry cakes


while the cakes were cooling we took about 30 minutes to prepare for our showcasing. we all took turn heating our food up and plating it nicely. one by one everyone presented there dishes and set them outside. we had enough food for everyone to get to try, as well as teachers and administrators to get to try. once everyone had presented, we took a lunch break

these are all of the dishes
the students cooked at home 
This is Tori's dish from home
This is Imaar presenting his dish

by the time we finished lunch, the cakes were cooled off. we first cleaned the entire kitchen up form the showcasing. then Chef Jessica taught us how to properly frost a cupcake. We all got to practice frosting and decorating our cupcakes. we gave cupcakes to some teachers who wanted to try and packed the rest up and brought it to the high school to give away. 

This is our entire group with all of our cupcakes 
This is Max with the cupcakes she decorated


At school we got together and journaled, and discussed as a group how we were going to organize our slideshow fr the big presentation. That was the end of our sixth day and we are grateful for everything we learned and very excited for tomorrow!

This is Mateo carefully reading
the recipe

This is Ariela with the dish
she made at home



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