June 15-18, 2010.
I officially hate cinnamon buns.
I’ve made cinnamon buns every week I’ve been at Baked, and due to the fact that my hands always feel really gross after spreading out the cinnamon filling, I hate them with a burning passion. Important lesson #6: Cinnamon buns are only your friend when you’re eating them.
Besides that, I’ve discovered some pretty awesome things this week. For example, the robot coupe has a really cool shredder attachment that I didn’t know existed. Granola has to be baked on these rubbery mats called silpat. A large coffee cake takes longer to bake than a small coffee cake. Important lesson #6: Always ask “Am I doing this right?” or “Is there an easier way to do this?”
I got to help make some bars for the first time this week, and I think I can honestly say I was not born to make PBK bars. After accidentally dumping half of the peanut butter/chocolate filling on the table under the scale (Important lesson #7: Sheet pans are not very deep), I found out that I’m apparently not capable of making peanut butter/chocolate filling perfectly smooth. I later found out that I’m also not capable of making chocolate glaze perfectly smooth, or anywhere close to anything resembling anything that looks nice. The grasshopper bars were a little easier because I’m used to smoothing out butter cream. They remind me of a mint chocolate chip cake I made once, but my cake was better because it had no butter cream. I’m not a fan of butter cream.
This week was obviously pretty uneventful, except for when I under-baked the coffee cake and made it collapse. That was kind of not too good.
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