Skip to main content

C LO#2

Yesterday, I decided that I wanted to make cupcakes. I love watching baking shows and I have always wanted to get better at icing my own cupcakes. I went to the grocery store to buy all of the ingredients needed to make a cupcake and icing. I also bought sprinkles. I decided to make vanilla confetti cupcakes because that is my favorite flavor. I baked 24 cupcakes total. After I baked the cupcakes and let them cool I made the icing. I made a vanilla buttercream. I had a star and round piping tip, so that is what I used to ice my cupcakes. I started with the round tip because I thought that it would be easier to pipe. The first cupcake I piped was difficult because it was hard to keep my hand steady so that I could make the swirl good. It took me 4 cupcakes to get it semi-right. I then moved onto the star tip. I made small swirls on one of the cupcakes. I think that they turned our really good and looked like proper swirls. I then tried to make a bigger swirl with the star tip and that did not work out as well. It looked really lopsided and not uniform. I used the rest of the cupcakes to continue practicing with both piping tips. The icing started to look better as I kept practicing but it still was not perfect. I now know how challenging it is to really perfect how to ice a cupcake. It also gets really different based on the icing tip you are using, which obviously affects the results. I did learn how to keep my hand more steady, which is good for any of my future cupcake icing attempts. 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

S LO#3

Yesterday, my high school had our Lunar New Year celebration. For the past three years, I have been organizing the celebrations. This year, the teacher who supervises my planning wanted to have our celebration with the middle school, so we can get more students involved. I thought this was a great idea, but I was at first worried about how we would accommodate a lot more people in our activities, as we would be going from about 110 people to 180. This meant that I had to purchase a lot more materials for each activity so that all students and faculty could get participate. We also wanted to make sure we all were staying together and really integrating middle school and high school. For Lunar New Year, we always provide lunch, so I thought it would be good to serve food in the middle school, then require that everyone eats in the high school or on the quad. This way, we were all staying together instead of separating into our building. I think that this worked well to keep us all togeth...
Post a Comment
Read more

A LO#4

For the past two weeks, my school has been in A-Term. A- Term is a two-week period where we study something intensively for two weeks. There are group options and people can also do independent A-Terms. This year I did a San Francisco city study A-Term, with a group of students. We spent a week in San Francisco learning about the culture and different districts there. My favorite day that we spent in San Francisco was the day that we went to the Exploratorium, which is a science museum near Fisherman's Wharf. In the afternoon that day, we went to Golden Gate Park, where we explored the Japanese Tea Garden, did a 3-mile hike, saw bison, and went to the tulip garden. The park was so beautiful. I also really enjoyed our tour of Chinatown, because we got to learn a lot about the traditions and history of San Francisco's Chinatown. Traveling in a group is definitely quite difficult because it is a lot of people going to places together and I spent a whole week with people that I was...
Post a Comment
Read more

A LO#5

       As part of my school's Odyssey Week, we spend the day at Brazos Bend State Park. While we were there the school held a cooking competition, in which we were all split into groups of about six to nine people. At the beginning of the day, we got into our groups and worked together to figure out the meal we would be making. Since there were a lot of us, I had to make sure that I was actively listening to everyone's opinions and dietary restrictions. Listening is a very important skill for group work and I think that I was able to use that skill well when trying to figure out our meal plan. We all agreed on making chicken kabobs, salad, and smores. I and another person from my group then went to the store to buy all of the items we would need for our meal. Going to the store with another person was very beneficial because we were able to split up the work or calculating the prices and finding items, which made the whole shopping process go a lot quicker. I was als...
Post a Comment
Read more