Cheesecake Love

I think the best think about making food is watching others enjoy it. I found a recipe for a white chocolate cheesecake with raspberries online and decide to make it for my friends. I kept telling them that I would make them a cheesecake so Sunday night, since i was procrastinating as always, I did. At this point I can definitely say that baking is one thing that I find pure enjoyment in doing, especially when compared to writing papers. So this morning I dropped the cheesecake off in the WGS office before my first class. When I came back into the office later it seems that Amber was the first to discover it and from there cheesecake love occurred in the WGS office. Baking for other people really does make me happy, I think that I will start doing it more often.

No pictures were taken of the cheesecake...but take my word I think it was pretty good it was gone by the end of the day.

Cheers,

Apryl

"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."~Harriet van Horne

Get Your Fresh Hot Pretzel!!!

I LOVE bread! The smell of it, the taste of it, and the chewiness of it.

These very things (and the fact that I only have only $5 left to my name, so going out was not an option) are what made me decide yesterday afternoon that I want to bake some type of bread. So I sat down with some cookbooks and began exploring for recipes. As I flipped through one of the books I came upon a recipe for pretzels. I love pretzels so much, every time I go in the mall I always get a cinnamon and sugar pretzel, I must admit there lie a drug. So being that this sweet, bread treat is a weakness of mine I thought that I should attempt to make some of my own.

So here is my afternoon of pretzel making:

before my dough rose and 2 hours later doubled in size (yeah yeast!!!)

Before boiling and baking....tada!!!!...Hot Pretzels ready to eat!!!

This was tons of fun and the pretzels turned out delicious. After they cooled down a little I brushed them with butter and sprinkled them with cinnamon and sugar, yummy. I was pretty happy with my first batch of pretzels.

Life advice for the day: Make something with yeast at least once, its like magic! : )

Cheers!!!