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Week 2 Reflection

This week, it was really fun to feel like we knew our way around the kitchen more. Because we felt this way, it was easier for us to go off on our own a little bit and do our own thing. We could get creative with what we wanted to make, rather than focusing on how to use the equipment and such. We started by planning out the dorms that we would be baking for and what each of them would get. We also saw how many people they had and decided how many baked goods we would need to make for each dorm to get enough. This week we made rice crispy treats, coffee cake, red velvet cupcakes, chocolate chip cookies, and brownies. Each day, we came in and worked on our treat for the dorm. It usually doesn't take us very long, so each day we would usually bake something for the school as well. Either for breakfast or for desert. We would also sometimes do things like help bag cookies in two's, or help serve food at lunch. It has been fun to experience the hard work that goes into serving food
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Senior Project Day 13 and 14

Today, Jaimes and I started out by coming in a little bit late to the kitchen because we had a senior seminar at 11:30. We came to the kitchen and decided for our last two days, we were going to make brownies to just hand out to people that we saw throughout the day. We started out by mixing our ingredients together to make a brownie batter. We then made a little bit of a mess trying to get the batter into the pans, but we did it. When the brownies were cooking, we had a snack and a drink. We then flipped them and took them out of the oven when they were fully ready. We then cut them and bagged them individually to hand out to people the next day.  Today, Jaimes and I handed out our brownies. We started by walking around and offering anyone we saw a brownie. We walked through the wise and got a lot of takers. Everyone was really happy to be offered a brownie in the middle of the day. We then went to our senior seminar at around 11 and handed more brownies out there. Everyone seemed to
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Senior Project day 12

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 Today, Jaimes and I made coffee cake with Barb for Sally B dorm. We got to the kitchen and got right to work with Barb. We started by making the streusel topping for the cake with cinnamon and oats and sugar.  The next thing we did was make the dough for the cake. When all of the parts were done, we layered the dough and the streusel on top of each other until it was a cake. After that we put it in the oven to bake. While that was baking, we helped serve lunch for the school. When we were done with lunch, we took our cake out of the oven and packaged it for Sally B. We then delivered it to Sally!
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Senior Project Day 11

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 Today, Jaimes and I made a two small red velvet cakes, and one big one for desert that night. We started by mixing our ingredients for the cake.  We then put the batter into the pans. We had some trouble and made a mess with the red food dye. Then we put it into the oven.  When the cake was cooled, we frosted the cake and used a piping bag to make it look pretty.  When they were done, we went to the wise and helped Barb make cinnamon buns for the next morning. These turned out really good. After that, we delivered our cakes to Carr and Gannet!
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Senior Project Day 10

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Today, Jaimes and I didn't get into the kitchen until a little later because we had senior seminar at 11:00am. When we got into the kitchen, we switched up our plan due to our late arrival. Instead of cannolis, we decided to make M&M cookies instead. We started out by getting our ingredients and mixing them together in the mixing bowl. When they were done, we scooped them onto a few sheet pans and put them into the oven.  When the cookies were done, we made blueberry muffins for breakfast that morning. We mixed all of our ingredients and then scooped the batter into mini muffin tins. Then, we put them in the oven.  The last thing we did today was help Hannah put the desert for tonight onto plates so that they were ready to serve. We then delivered our cookies to Peabody and Summerfield dorms!
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Project period Day 9

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 Today, Jaimes and I got to the kitchen and got right to work on our rice crispy treats, with the help of Hannah. We started by gathering our marshmallows, and Rice Crispy Treats, and melted the marshmallows with some butter. After those were melted, we mixed the Rice Crispy Treats in with the melted mixture and spread it across tins. After that, we helped out with serving lunch for everyone. When we were done serving and eating lunch, we made muffins for the next morning. We then packaged our rice crispy treats and gave them to Rulon and MLS dorms! 
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Project period day 7

 Today, Jaimes and I made chocolate chip cookies for our senior seminar tonight. We started our day off by getting to the dining hall earlier than usual. 8:00am. And eat a nice breakfast after the kids were done eating. After eating, we got to work. The first thing that we did in the kitchen was help Hannah bag the cookies that would be for lunch desert. This took us some time, but we distracted ourselves by talking and laughing the whole time. When we finished bagging the cookies, we got to work on our own cookies. We decided to make them chocolate chip because everyone likes chocolate chip cookies. We made our batter and added our chips. We scooped the batter onto cookie sheets and put them in the oven. While those were baking, Jaimes and I helped out by helping serve lunch for the students. After eating our own lunch, we bagged our cookies and put them in a bowl for the seminar. Everyone loved them and we got lots of compliments. 
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