Craving Pumpkins!

In a two day lab we craved pumpkins! This was the first time I ever craved a pumpkin ( I know that's kind of sad). Anyway for the first day we emptied out the insides.

My Pumpkin <3

Cleaning the Insides

We started to crave on the second day. I have to say, the hard part of the craving a pumpkin wasn't the actually craving but the transferring of the design. It took me forever just to use the wheel-y tracer thing from the kit to trace my pattern.

My pattern 

 The actually craving was pretty fun to do and it was kind of scary because I keep thinking that I would mess up ... almost did a few times but it came out really nice!

My finished pumpkin

Faith and mine's pumpkin together :)

When we finished our pumpkins, we got to take pictures of it with a candle inside and our teacher took pictures.

with a candle :)

I actually found the pattern to this pumpkin here:

http://ciderandfaun.blogspot.ca/2009/10/pumpkin-patch-and-carved-owl.html

Rainbow Cookies!

So for our third lab we made rainbow cookies!! The cookies for this recipes was not only easy to make but delicious also!

Finished Product

The recipe:

Ingredients: 

• 250 ml of margarine
• 250 ml of sugar
• 2 eggs
• 5 ml of vanilla extract
• 625 ml of flour
• 5 ml baking soda
• 10 ml of cream of tartar
• 2 ml salt
• Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red food coloring

Method:

1. In a large bowl, cream together margarine and sugar. 
2. Add one egg at a time. Beat until well incorporated. Add the vanilla
3.  Sift together dry ingredients in a medium bowl.
4. Slowly stir the flour mixture into the creamed mixture.
5. Divide the dough into 5 unequal amounts.

   

   Dividing the dough

   
   

6. Mix in 2-3 drops of food colouring to each amount. (blue in smallest dough, red in the biggest etc.)
7. Start by rolling the smallest ball into a snake (blue). Then roll out the next colour into a rectangle and cover the snake with the rectangle until all the dough is used up.

   

   Rolling the dough

   
   

8. Put in the freezer for 10 minutes or until the dough hardens (you could put it in the refrigerator overnight too).

   

   How it should look

   
   

9. Slice the cookies and then cut them in half and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Shape them if you want.

   

   How the cookies looked when we sliced them

   
   

   

   The cookies cut in half. We shaped them a little with our hands

   
   

   
   

10.   Bake in a 350°F or 180°C for 8-10 minutes
11. Let it sit on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes and then move them to a cooling rack to cool completely.

 Our Product:

Side view

Our first slice - looks weird

Before they go in the oven

Close up on them before we baked them

In the oven, they're going to flatten out

Done! We made a whole army of them :D

Close up.

They don't all have to be perfect.

 

What they look like when you break them in half.

Banana Loaf with Hazelnut

So this is our second loaf! We decided to do a banana loaf (as you can tell by the title) with hazelnuts and a chocolate glaze! The recipe is basically the same expect that we used bananas and hazelnuts instead of apples, walnuts and cranberries. I found that our loaf was cooked for a little too long but it had too because for some reason the inside was still wet after the time was up >.< but overall it was a good loaf!

Our Finished Product

The recipe:

Ingredients:  

• 1 Banana (mashed)
• 185 mL hazelnut (chopped)
• 310 mL flour
• 185 mL sugar
• 5 mL baking powder
• 5 mL salt
• 2 mL baking soda
• 2 mL cinnamon ( you could put lesser if you don't like cinnamon or none at all)
• 1-2 mL of nutmeg (same with the nutmeg)
• 2 eggs
• 125 mL vegetable oil (we used vegetable oil) or butter (melted) or plain yogurt (it doesn't really have to be plain yogurt) or sour cream
• 5 mL vanilla extract
• 5 mL citrus zest (optional)

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F or 180°C. Lightly butter/spray one 9-by-5 inch loaf pan or three 6-by-3 inch mini pan.
2. Mix in the flour, sugar, baking powder, alt, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large bowl.
3. Add your dry mix-in (hazelnuts) in the flour mixture.
4. In a separate bowl, whisk 2 eggs, 125 mL of vegetable oil (or the other ingredients that you choose), 5 mL vanilla extract and the citrus zest (optional).
5. Stir in your fruit or vegetable (banana) into the egg mixture.
6. Fold in the egg mixture into the dry mixture until combined.
7. Spread the batter in the prepared pans. Baked until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 55 minutes for a standard loaf pan and about 35-40 minutes for mini loaf pans.
8. After they are done baking, cool 30 minutes in the pan(s) on a rack and then turn out onto the racks to cool completely.

 The glaze:

The glaze is an optional thing for your loaf. For this loaf we made a Chocolate Glaze which was even simpler then the other one

Ingredients:  

• 250 mL of confectioners' sugar
• 30 mL cocoa powder
• 30 mL of milk
• 1 mL of vanilla extract
• a pinch of salt

 Method:

1. Whisk the confectioners' sugar, cocoa powder, milk, vanilla extract and salt together until liquid/mixed together. You may need to add more milk if does not mix together well.

  Our Product:

It looks kind of flat because someone forgot to put something in it

With chocolate glaze

Inside of the loaf

Apple Loaf with Walnuts and Cranberries

For the first lab we had to do in Food Art was the loaf! Our assignment was to make two loafs (on different days) and to choose the ingredients in them. My group choose the apple (as you can see in the title) as our flavor for the first loaf because I had this urge to eat something apple flavor...and for our mix-ins we had walnuts and cranberries. I think the cranberries didn't really go well with the loaf so if I were to make this next time I wouldn't put it in.

Our end product

The recipe:

Ingredients:  

• 1 Apple (shredded and squeezed dry)
• 185 mL walnuts (chopped)
• 125 mL cranberries (fresh or dried)
• 310 mL flour
• 185 mL sugar
• 5 mL baking powder
• 5 mL salt
• 2 mL baking soda
• 2 mL cinnamon ( you could put lesser if you don't like cinnamon or none at all)
• 1-2 mL of nutmeg (same with the nutmeg)
• 2 eggs
• 125 mL vegetable oil (we used vegetable oil) or butter (melted) or plain yogurt (it doesn't really have to be plain yogurt) or sour cream
• 5 mL vanilla extract
• 5 mL citrus zest (optional)

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F or 180°C. Lightly butter/spray one 9-by-5 inch loaf pan or three 6-by-3 inch mini pan.
2. Mix in the flour, sugar, baking powder, alt, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large bowl.
3. Add your dry mix-in (walnuts and cranberries) in the flour mixture.
4. In a separate bowl, whisk 2 eggs, 125 mL of vegetable oil (or the other ingredients that you choose), 5 mL vanilla extract and the citrus zest (optional).
5. Stir in your fruit or vegetable (apple) into the egg mixture.
6. Fold in the egg mixture into the dry mixture until combined.
7. Spread the batter in the prepared pans. Baked until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 55 minutes for a standard loaf pan and about 35-40 minutes for mini loaf pans.
8. After they are done baking, cool 30 minutes in the pan(s) on a rack and then turn out onto the racks to cool completely.

 The glaze:

The glaze is an optional thing for your loaf. For this loaf we made a Brown Butter Glaze which was really simple to do.

Ingredients:  

• 3 tablespoons of butter
• 2 mL of confectioner sugar (which is icing sugar)
• 1 mL of mil

 Method:

1. Brown the 3 tablespoon of butter over low heat; cool slightly. Whisk in the confectioners' sugar and milk. Use immediately!    

 Our product:  

Hi!

Hello!! So this is a a blog that I had to make for Foods Art class in school to post up pictures and maybe recipes of what I make in class! I might also post up other recipes that I had used in my previous food classes. Faith is also making one (we're in the same food class), we had to each make one ourselves so we couldn't share :(

Yours Truly,

Grace