Chef started this lesson on sweets by showing the process of creaming, that is creaming butter with sugar. I've done this many times, but it helps to see a professional chef do it. A good comparison for a beginning cook.
With that demonstration, I started by making and baking cookies, and I learned how to flavor a basic cookie recipe to change up the finished cookie without doing more than an extra small step or two. My head is bursting with ideas for making cookies for my children at Christmastime.
Clafouti? The fragrance of baking Clafouti came next. It's a food I never even heard of, but W-O-W! This recipe is a keeper, and I know how to make it. What a cook I am turning out to be. I can't wait to make this for my honey. It's going to be a delicious surprise after the holiday meal, as well. This is a jewel in the sweet cooking class. I love it because I can eat it. It's sort of a no-crust custard fruit pie. I made mine with fresh healthy raspberries. Mmm Mmmm Good!
I "look to the heavens" love pie and cake, but I've never made a cake from scratch until this lesson. I can't believe I did it, and it was easy. I slathered my chocolate chocolate moist, fluffy delicious cake with a divine cream cheese frosting, which I have made before [my favorite] but not with such fabulous results. I was going to put the cake batter into cupcake tins, but I decided to make a sheet cake. I'll save the standard round layer cake for another time. Of course, I had to take a cook's bite… okay, a whole slice. This was too tempting even for my iron will-power. It is so so melt-in-your-mouth good.
The holiday dinner [I can't help thinking about cooking for my children at Christmas this year] is going to be an extra special food day. I so hope my family loves to eat the food I make, which is sure to be much better than previous years.
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