Easter

So for Easter of this past year, my grandma bought an ice cream cake for dessert as I was teaching and she thought I would be too busy. Granted, I do get stressed if I'm baking on a timeline, which is why I didn't go into baking as a career. 

Anyway, my brother and I decided we couldn't just have a normally iced ice cream cake for our Easter dessert, so we redecorated. (I wasn't thinking blog at the time, so forgive me for no progress pics!)

To do yourself:

1. Scrape off most of the icing on the top of the cake. (You can always add more whipped cream later if you scrape off too much)
2. Freeze the cake! This will help your new top set.
3. Make royal icing flowers. I went with some springy flowers like violets, daisies, buttercups, etc.
4. Bunny-butts! We went the muchkin route:
1.  Buy munchkins (aka donut holes) from a local shop. 
2. Cover in white chocolate and sprinkle with shredded coconut. 
3. For the tails, cover mini marshmallows in white chocolate and sprinkle with shredded coconut.
4. Stick the tail to the body with a small dab of white chocolate.
5. Bunny feet:
1. I made a template on parchment paper in the shape I wanted- somewhat oval but slightly curved in the middle (like feet!). 
2. Pipe white chocolate over the template
3. Color white chocolate with some red gel coloring or use some red chocolate candy melts and mix with white chocolate until you get the desired shade
4. Pipe the pads of feet and toes
5. Assemble just before serving! As the cake started melting, some color got on the whipped cream it was touching, but not much! I was pleasantly surprised. 

First post!

AH! My first blog post. I guess I'll post a little more about myself.

I graduated in 2015 with my bachelor's degree in Childhood Education (Grades 1-6) and became certified soon after. This past school year I worked part time at a Catholic elementary school teaching technology. I began my graduate studies while I was teaching, but decided that for this coming school year it would be a better choice for me to finish my graduate degree. As part of my graduate work, I decided to focus on teaching math at the middle- and high-school level, so I just applied for my certificate in Mathematics 7-12. I should be receiving my certificate before the end of the summer!

So this blog will be both about my career in teaching math and baking. I have a list of bakes I want to tackle over the summer:

• Pate a choux
• Creme Pat
• Chocolate Mousse
• Sandwich Bread
• Baguettes

I guess you could say I'm rather ambitious. 

In the comments, let me know of any ideas you'd like to see me tackle on this blog.