Bagels and Doughnuts Take 1

Last weekend I made my first attempt at making bagels and doughnuts from scratch. It was a bit ambitious of me to try them both at once, this was proven when I dropped my bagel dough as I removed it from the fridge and shattered the bowl. I quickly cleaned up and chopped off all the edges of the dough so I had a nice clean middle.

Everything turned out alright for a first go but the bagels were flat, the water was too hot and I added too much salt so I killed the yeast which meant they didn't rise. They tasted deliciously but they were very small, about palm size. I'm going to give it another go this weekend to see if I can get them right this time.

The doughnuts will take a bit more tweaking to get right. The doughnuts themselves didn't have enough flavor. I tried to make them adult so instead of a normal chocolate icing I did a Kahlua-chocolate icing, it turned out too runny and sticky. I'm not entirely sure how to fix this so if anyone has a suggestion I'd appreciate it.

Pepper People

I took some time on Sunday to play with my food since my parents aren't around to yell at me when I do it now.

Dedicated to Jenny Lou

My good friend Jenny Lou from university is going to pastry school and keeps posting these amazing photographs of what she makes on her blog, found here. I've been inspired by this and have decided to give it a try myself, so here is my first attempt photographing these mini chocolate chip cheesecakes I've gotten pretty good at making.


More yumminess to come