My Favourite Cooking Lab

I am currently taking a cooking class at my school. The usual schedule for each unit is get a worksheet, practice cooking the food, do a group project, do an individual project, then move on to the next unit. My favourite unit so far has been the cake unit, who doesn’t like cake? Well, there are actually some people that don’t like cake (the monsters), I am not one of those people. I really enjoyed all of the baking of the cakes, but the one I enjoyed the most is the practice cake baking. We weren’t making anything fancy, just a basic white cake, it was a practice cook after all. Even so, it was a delicious white cake. For this recipe, we used the traditional method of mixing the cake ingredients. Sift the baking powder and flour together, beat together the oil and sugar in a separate bowl, mix in the eggs one at a time, then add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients in a 4:3 ratio. I was getting the ingredients while my partner mixed everything. I was trying to get the cake in the oven quickly so that we had time to clean up, but my partner was going pretty slowly when mixing the flour into the wet ingredients, so I took over for the rest. I think that the cake was over-mixed since I saw some big air bubbles rising up, and when I took it out of the oven it was a lighter brown than everyone else’s, but I just assured myself it was fine and that I was being paranoid. The next day, it was time to decorate the cakes! I was thinking of trying to do fancy wedding cake designs on our cake, but it was very short so I doubted there would be enough room to do so. Then Chef told us that we could stack our cake with a cake that another pair made. The other pair at our table wanted to make a double layered cake as well, and so we combined our forces of cake to make the ultimate cake! We all had different ideas for how to decorate it, but eventually decided on making the cake look like a reversed Oreo. We did the crumb coat, then the pretty layer of icing, and then peppered the cake with black details, including piping OERO on the top (Oreo backwards). It was a delicious cake and a great lab.