Thursday, June 6, 2013

8th post

On today's lesson we cooked. i thibnk everything went really well, it wasnt that hard and at the end looked really good. here is recipe for it and a picture of our cakes.

Pineapple upside down cake
Ingredients
  • 440g can pineapple slices in juice
  • 1/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
  • 90g butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup caster sugar
  • 2 eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1 1/4 cups self-raising flour, sifted
Method
Step 1: Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Grease a 6cm-deep, 20cm (base) round  pan. Line base with baking paper.
Step 2: Drain pineapple, reserving 2 tablespoons juice. Cut pineapple in half.
Step 3: Sprinkle brown sugar over base of baking upside-down prepared pan. Arrange pineapple, just touching, over sugar.
Step 4: Using an electric mixer, beat butter and caster sugar for 3 minutes or until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.
Step 5: Add flour and reserved pineapple juice. Stir to combine. Spread mixture over pineapple. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in cake comes out clean. Stand in pan for 5 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool. Serve.

so we got two of these each :)

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

7th post.

On today's lesson we were finishing our assignments off.
We had to decorate the cupcakes that we cooked yesterday. I think al the girls have done a pretty good job, all the cupcakes looked gorgeous and the point was that all of them were different with different themes.
I had three different types of cupcakes:
1)with green icing and a cherry on top
2)with pink icing and 3 raspberries on top
3)with plain white icing and pieces of strawberries and blueberries on top

I think all of them looked quite, especially I liked the ones with pink icing and raspberries on top. They were the best ones I think.
The only problem we had is in our group we ran out of time and were late for the lunchtime for 5-10 minutes. We were cleaning the dishes and cleaning the benches.

Here are the pictures of my cupcakes without decorations and with them




Monday, June 3, 2013

6th post

On today's lesson we started our assignment which is decorating cupcakes. But to decorate them, we had to cook them first. That's what we did today. I did quick mixing technique of cooking. I think all the process went well. We were supposed to get 12 cupcakes, I don't know what did other girls get, but I got 16, 4 extra cupcakes. I took it back to home.
Other 12 cupcakes we stored till next lesson which is tomorrow. We are going to decorate them next lesson. As I said before, I'm decorating cupcakes with fresh berries such as cherries, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries. And I'm also going to use three colours of icing- pink, green and plain white which is without any colour.
Here are some photos of cupcakes from today's lesson :)
The ones on the pink stage are not mine, but Danielle's.