NEW YORK CITY, HERE WE COME!

99 days until we are off to the Big Apple!

We are still trying to raise the money, but most of us are already over half way there.
A few weekends ago we had a bake sale in front of Safeway and raised over $600 (much better than the rough estimate of $200 that the cheerleaders made...)
We will continue to raise money up until it is time to hop aboard the plane!
Can't wait!

2011!

2011 has been a great year in the Culinary Arts III class, so far.
Early in the year we did an Asian inspired lunch, complete with home-made fortune cookies topping our cupcakes.

 

In January, we also had finals.  For our first final we all made and plated braised chicken, sauteed asparagus, and mashed potatoes.

Our second final was a Cupcake War.  We each got two secret ingredients from the country we had been studying and had to incorporate them into our cupcakes.  My country was Argentina an my secret ingredients were spearmint and vanilla bean.  I soaked the mint leaves in a chocolate ganache, giving it a minty flavor, to fill the chocolate cupcakes and I used to the vanilla beans to create a vanilla bean butter cream. 
I gladly passed both of my finals, [:

On a relaxed day in the kitchen, we made delicious crepes filled with nutella that someone *cough*Lindsay*cough* hid from us.

A week ago yesterday was my 17th birthday.  To celebrate the entire class made mini molten lava chocolate cakes...practically the equivalent to Heaven in your mouth. 

Yesterday was Valentine's day and we made cute little cupcake grams.  Some were chocolate with a chocolate butter cream and others were red velvet with a vanilla butter cream.  They were all topped with festive pink, red, and white sprinkles and a chocolate heart with a personalized message.  They were either picked up or delivered to the customers. 

This week we will not be doing a staff lunch due to a cheese tasting that I have been waiting to do!



Update on the end of the year!

November and December was a rather busy time for us, maybe that is why we haven't been able to blog so much.  We did everything - pie sales, cookie platters, ServSafe course, Winter Festival, gingerbread houses, and many catering jobs. 
During the pie sale was a major success - we sold over 250 pies!  The pies included pecan, pumpkin, apple strussel, chocolate mousse, and a pumpkin cheesecake. 
The cookie platters were for the HCOE holiday party at the Riverlodge and we baked and plated about 45 dozen!
As a class, we took a ServSafe class at the CR unit in Eureka.  I passed with a 83% and am now officially ServSafe certified!  !!  [:
Also, we worked at the Winter Festival that our school's Travel Squad put on.  We had a bake sale and had a 'decorate-your-own-cookie' stand. That was plenty of fun and, well, festive.
One of my favorite activities this past holiday season was making our gingerbread houses.  Sammy, Kelsie, and I did a 'Charlie Brown Christmas' themed gingerbread house, complete with fondant sculptures of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Woodstock. 
The many catering jobs we had were the Healthy Start lunch, an AP Teacher lunch, an 80th birthday party, and plenty of staff lunchs.
We are now working on our International Food History and Food Customs project.  The country I got assigned is Argentina.  I am looking forward to learning lots of new information about the Argentina cuisine, along with the other countries my classmates are doing. 

Updatin' it!

On October 27, 2010 we had a catering job at the Humboldy County Office of Education.  We prepared chicken caesar wraps, butternut squash soup, orzo salad, and chocolate cupcakes topped with a white chocolate spiderweb.  The cupcakes were "almost too cute to eat", as they told us.  But, hey, what do you expect?  I made them, afterall, [;


Along with the chocolate spiderweb cupcakes, we also made other Halloween themed cupcakes.  We had a red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting.  Half was dipped in chocolate sprinkles and had a inverted mini reeses peanutbutter cup and a whopper draped in a disk of white fondant to form a ghost.  Next, there was a pumpkin cupcake with a maple cream cheese frosting. They were rolled in orange sprinkles and topped with marzapan pumpkin.  Lastly, we made a vanilla cupcake with a caramel buttercream frosting.  These were garnished with caramel corn, that I burnt multiple times...whoops!

On November 2, 2010 we catered a lunch for the AP teachers here at the high school.  We made a thai green curry, chicken skewers, green salad with ginger sesame dressing, rice, and mocha fudge cakes.  The mocha fudge cakes were the favorite, I'm sure, because, once again, I made them.

On November 7, 2010 a few of us catered a wedding reception in Eureka for Tina and Clay.  We prepared the apetizers; caramelized onion tarts, curried egg salad bruschetta with smoked salmon, pita chips chipltle hummus, and cheese and vegetable platters.  We also made the wedding cakes which was a lemon chiffon cake filled with lemon cream and rasberry.  The bottom layer was framed with the silhouette from Mystery Science Theater 3000 and the top tier of the cake was topped with the Myster Science Theater 3000 robots.  Tina and Clay were very nice and friendly, and appreicated our work so much. 

Updates! (HuskyCakes)

Last week was homecoming week which was very hectic.
On top of school work, float, powderpuff, and lipsync, we sold Husky Pawprint Cupcakes.
We made chocolate cupcakes with a chocolate buttercream frosting and vanilla cupcakes with a caramel buttercream frosting.  Both were topped off with a blue and white fondant disk with a black pawprint piped on top. 
We sold roughly about 85 cupcakes all together, and we got many compliments on them.
There were plenty of extra for us to eat, which is always the best part, [:

Updates.

This week we will be making husky pawprint cupcakes to show school spirit for homecoming this Friday.

Next week we will be doing an Indian style staff lunch.

Cupcakes!

Wingless honeybee.

Making the honeybees.

Sammy and I.

Almond wings.

Baklava.

All the bees!

Finished cupcake.

Again.