Quick Breads

Woot! Woot! Finally we are having our hands on in baking, and today's topic is Quick Breads. Pancakes, waffles, muffins, banana bread and zucchini bread all fall in that category. The ingredients and tools are ready, or again if I may use the terms I picked up from school...Mise en place.

At first it was a bit chaotic in the kitchen as we are measuring our ingredients, prepping the pans and making sure we have everything. After a few minutes we got our rhythm and things were running smoothly...well as smoothly as a class of eager excited students can be, plus the fact that half of which have their cameras. Our rhythm was temporarily broken by a visit of a "little guest" to the horror of a few of my classmates, who shrieked and jumped in the kitchen. Followed by laughter after we found out what really happened.

We have accomplished our chocolate muffins, blueberry muffins with struessle and double chocolate muffins by lunch time. We took our 1hr lunch break and discussed the next batch of goodies we are going to make, zucchini bread and banana bread.

When our chef instructor asked who wants to make the zucchini bread, well nobody really volunteered because apparently everybody wanted to make banana bread. So a few brave souls took on the task of making  zucchini bread.

Meanwhile a classmate thought that we wont have enough bananas so he asked another classmate to buy some at the supermarket across the street. The funny thing is, we end up having more bananas that we could possibly need.

Everything went smoothly as we go about doing our breads. We took a break for pictures and admiring the goodies we have made. We also have an impromptu lesson on plating and on chocolate ganache and "Lactofil". Before we knew it, it was already 5:00pm and its time to go. We have divided the goodies and say our goodbyes, and will see each other again in next week's class...