Posts tagged caramel
that's what she baked.
Adventures (and misadventures) in the kitchen from a novice baker.
Pictures from the final week of Advanced Techniques in Baking: Sauces and Review (yes, I’m finally finished with the pictures from the class which ended more than a couple of weeks ago)
As a group, we made Saint-Honores (pictured bottom right), which I can’t even remember how to pronounce. I happily volunteered to work on the Pate a Choux, which I loved making in my very first baking class and piped out a whole army of little guys (top left picture).
The Saint-Honores we made involved Pate Sable (or Quick Puff Pastry), Pate a Choux, Mousseline Pastry Cream and Caramel. I loooovvved watching the caramel change colors, I think it’s so beautiful. While pretty interesting looking, I found the Saint-Honores difficult to eat when put together, but enjoyed lots of tasting throughout the process.
Caramel deLites Shortbread Sandwich Cookies.
My personal FAVORITE from the Girl Scout Cookie Fundraiser that I went to last night. For these sandwiches, they crushed the Caramel deLites and used them as if they were a flour to make shortbread cookies. The filling included bananas, dulce de leche, brown sugar AND bacon!
(caramel) sticky minis.
I don’t know how to serve them because they’re so gooey, almost like a honey bun. People are gonna get messy hands, but they’re super sweet!
Pre-filling the paper cupcake liners with the batter, the directions said to spray them with non-stick spray so you could later remove the baked cupcakes from the paper with ease.
Pictured is me dipping the bottom half into the caramel (which I made for the first time and had no idea what I was doing, or a candy thermometer, which I guess I was supposed to have).
