Chocolate chip cookies

So I needed to make chocolate chip cookies for the caroling we are doing tonight with some friends. The first batch I made turned out pretty good but I forgot to put baking powder and salt. So I did the next batch and they turned out a lot better. I hope to make another batch of them because I only have ten cookies. But I don't have butter so I have to get some at the store. The batch tastes really good, it is amazing what a little salt can do to cookies. Way back when they bought stuff with salt. I hope that the people who try the cookies like them because I didn't use sugar. I used honey and 100% whole wheat flour which I grinded my self in the blend-tec. That is why I don't have to use brown sugar. I also use 86% cocoa bar of chocolate instead of milk chocolate bar, which is very sweet. I hope to make twenty more cookies so there will be some left over so I can eat them ;). For Christmas I want to make my brother and sister a giant cookie for each of them. I hope they will like it. I am going to make them in the cake pans that I have. But I still need to get butter for them.

Birthday cake

So I made my brother a pineapple upside down cake. It is perfect not to sweet and not to not sweet :). It looks amazing and I am going to cover it with whipped cream. It has four pineapple slices on the top. My brother had a great birthday and I made croissants and bagels, we also watched the hobbit The Desolation of Smaug. We are going to watch the new Star Wars today. This is the first time I have ever made a Pineapple upside down cake. So I hope everyone at his party will like it. Christmas is in a week, so close. I put some melted blueberries and pineapple in the cream. I made it myself.

Crossiants

So my brothers birthday is tomorrow so I need to make him croissants because he asked for them. They are not hard to make but they take a lot of time to make them. And to get them really flaky then you have to do what I am doing. So you first make the dough then you knead it then you put it in the fridge over night so it can rise. Then you have to roll it out the put a whole butter layer on it. Then you wrap it around then you roll it out to 48". That is pretty far but then to make it flaky you fold it then put it in the fridge for a minimum of half an hour. Then you repeat this process over and over and over again. I have done it about ten or eleven times now. On a video on how to make crossiants they only do it four times but I am making them for my brothers birthday. So I want them to be extra special. Every time I cut them precise then I have some left over so I make a croissant out of that. I hope he likes the crossiant I make for his Birthday.

My Cakes

So I love baking and this time I wanted to try something new like Cake :). Well I thought that chocolate cake would be good. So I got a recipe on chocolate cake and I made it. I baked it I let it cool. Then I made the ganache for the cake. Me and my brother ran to the farm and got some cream for the ganache. I put some store bought chocolate and put it in a bowl but it asked for one pound of chocolate and that is a lot. So I had to make my own chocolate. But it still wasn't enough so I just thought I would half the recipe and only add one cup of heavy cream. But I messed up and I added two cups of heavy cream, how could I be so stupid :(. But then I thought of something brilliant. I would beat the heavy cream and chocolate into CHOCOLATE CREAM:). So I did that and it worked. I put it on the cake and I was so excited I had just saved my Chocolate cake:).
In the end it tasted really good.



So my brother is a real health freak, so he wanted me to make Kale Cake. Wow. So I made it the same as the chocolate recipe but instead of cocoa powder I added Kale puree which is just oil and kale blended together. I put it in the oven But i forgot that I had to put honey so quickly took it out of the oven and I scraped it back in to the bowl and added a lot of honey and put it back into the oven and let it bake, I had just saved another cake:). Well when it was baking I saw how to make a frosting but I couldn't find a recipe that didn't call for Sugar!!! But then at last I saw a page that told you how to make a egg white frosting. I was scared that we would get salmonella, It said that you would put really hot honey but I didn't want to put 1 1/4 cups of honey. I researched and I read that out of every 30,000 eggs one of them has salmonella in it but I still had a bad feeling about it. Well in the ending when I put it on the cake and I tried a piece it didn't taste thad bad but it was very sweet because of all of that honey I put inside of the kale cake, but it was good.

Walnut Bread

So I found this new recipe. Here are the ingredients,

6 1/2 cups whole wheat flour,
1 cup chopped walnuts,
15 grams yeast,
2 tbsp poppy seeds,
2 tbsp sesame seeds,
2 tbsp sunflower seeds,
3 cups lukewarm water,
2 tsp salt
and also canola oil for greasing and a couple of bread pans

Mix the seeds, flour, yeast, salt, and the walnuts in a big mixing bowl.
When fully mixed add the water, stir till it turns to be a soft dough.
Put it on a lightly floured surface and knead for 4-6 minutes.
Put the bread back in the bowl and put it by a warm place and let it rise for 1-1 1/2 hours.
When it has doubled in size take it onto the flour surface and knead it for 1-2 minutes.
Then meanwhile grease the the bread pans.
When done kneading cut the thing in two and knead for one more minute.
Then put them in the bread pans and put them in the oven and a temperature at 450 degrees and a timer for half an hour. If they are starting to burn put the temperature.

My dad ate a sandwich from the bread I made today and said it was delicious.