Week 3

Tuesday:

After taking Memorial Day off we were eager to get back into the kitchen after a long weekend. Luckily for us we had our work cut out for us. We were asked by the boy’s tennis team to make baked goods to give away at their match to get more fans out because we realized nothing seems to inspire Hawken students quite like sweets. We spent a long day in the kitchen making intricate cupcakes which were painted with tennis balls, words of encouragement, trophies, and even faces seniors’ faces on them. In addition to this we also made chocolate chip cookies and brownies. Not only we’re the baked goods a hit but the tennis team hitting was the cherry on top.

Wednesday:

Today we got our onsite visit from Senora. Wanting to impress her we decided that we wanted to make a full meal. However, with making a full meal there comes a problem with needing someone to eat it. Luckily we were not short on volunteers. After a stop at the grocery store to gather supplies we took a trip to the guys who were making the shed and began to cook our meal. After a few hours of prep time we all got to sit down and enjoy the wings, mac n cheese, asparagus, sandwiches, and tiramisus which we had prepared. We learned that will still had much to learn about cooking and that timing may be our biggest issue in the kitchen luckily our food testers didn’t seem to mind that much.  

Thursday:

Coming off of a very busy two days we took they day to work on our neglected blog. In addition to that we also tried our hand at a new kind of cookie which we chose to call cookie cups. We then delivered them to some students who were at the Upper School. It was at this point in the project that we realized that our project was pivoting slightly from a blog to a catering business. This idea crossed our minds and we decided if we were to continue this project further we would have rather gone down that path because the cookie aspect of our project appealed more to us than the blogging portion.

Friday:

We were honored that one of our friends had enough faith in our culinary skills to ask us to create baked goods for a bake sale at the store she was working at for her senior project. Therefore we spent the day brainstorming what we were going to bake and then quickly taking to the kitchen to make an assortment of baked goods. We baked a variety which ranged from two different types of cookies, cookie cups, lemon bars, and cookie bars. After endless work with our mixer we were finally finished and all we had to do was transport them on Saturday which was not as easy as it sounds.