Pumpkin shortbread

Pumpkin shortbread

Ingredient:

1. Nonstick cooking spray
2. 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3. 1/2 cup cornstarch
4. 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
5. 1/2 teaspoon salt
6. 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
7. 2/3 cup powdered sugar
8. 1/3 to 1/2 cup LIBBY'S 100% Pure Pumpkin (use 1/2 cup for a softer shortbread)
9. 2 teaspoons sparkling or granulated sugar
10. Pumpkin Spice or Eggnog DREYER'S or EDY'S SLOW CHURNED Light Ice Cream (optional)

PREHEAT oven to 300° F. Spray bottom of 9-inch fluted tart pan with removable bottom with nonstick cooking spray.

COMBINE flour, cornstarch, pumpkin pie spice and salt in small bowl.

BEAT butter and powdered sugar in large mixer bowl until creamy. Beat in pumpkin until combined. Add flour mixture and mix until just incorporated. Spread dough into prepared pan; smooth top.

BAKE for 80 minutes or until firm and golden brown. Immediately sprinkle top with sparkling sugar. Cool for about 10 minutes; remove side from pan. Use long, serrated knife to cut into wedges. Serve warm with ice cream.

Banana Cream Pie

Banana cream pie

Ingredient:

1. 1 cup sugar
2. 1/4 cup cornstarch
3. 1/2 teaspoon salt
4. 3 cups 2% milk
5. 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
6. 3 tablespoons butter
7. 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
8. 1 pastry shell (9 inches), baked
9. 2 large firm bananas
10. 1 cup heavy whipping cream, whipped

Directions:

1. In a large saucepan, combine sugar, cornstarch, salt and milk until smooth. Cook and stir over medium-high heat until thickened and bubbly. Reduce heat; cook and stir 2 minutes longer. Remove from heat. Stir a small amount of hot filling into eggs; return all to pan. Bring to a gentle boil; cook and stir 2 minutes longer.
2. Remove from heat. Gently stir in butter and vanilla. Press plastic wrap onto surface of custard; refrigerate, covered, 30 minutes.
3. Spread half of the custard into pastry shell. Slice bananas; arrange over filling. Pour remaining custard over bananas. Spread with whipped cream. Refrigerate 6 hours or overnight. Yield: 8 servings.

Ice Pumpkin Cookies

Ice Pumpkin Cookies

Ingredient:

1. 
   1 teaspoon baking powder2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2. 1 teaspoon baking soda
3. 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
4. 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
5. 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
6. 1/2 teaspoon salt
7. 1/2 cup butter, softened
8. 1 1/2 cups white sugar
9. 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
10. 1 egg
11. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
12. 2 cups confectioners' sugar
13. 3 tablespoons milk
14. 1 tablespoon melted butter
15. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
16. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves, and salt; set aside.
17. In a medium bowl, cream together the 1/2 cup of butter and white sugar. Add pumpkin, egg, and 1 teaspoon vanilla to butter mixture, and beat until creamy. Mix in dry ingredients. Drop on cookie sheet by tablespoonfuls; flatten slightly.
18. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven. Cool cookies, then drizzle glaze with fork.
19. To Make Glaze: Combine confectioners' sugar, milk, 1 tablespoon melted butter, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Add milk as needed, to achieve drizzling consistency.

Apple Dumplings

Apple Dumplings

The Ingredient for pastry:

• 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 3 tablespoons sugar     
• 2 teaspoons baking powder    
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ cup shortening
• ½ cup cold water

The Ingredient for Filling:

• 4 to 6 cooking apple, peeled, cored and cut into sections
• 1/2 cup sugar, divided
• cinnamon
• nutmeg
• 1/4 cup butter, divided

Sauce ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 cups milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• pinch of nutmeg
• 1/4 cup butter, divided

Recipe instructions

• Prepare pastry by combining dry ingredients and cutting in shortening until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add water and mix until soft dough is formed. Roll into a rectangle approximately 20 inches by 15 inches and cut in 12 5-inch squares. 
• Place apple sections on each square and sprinkle each with 2 teaspoons sugar and a dash of cinnamon and nutmeg. More or less sugar may be used depending on sweetness of apples. Top each with 1 teaspoon butter and bring corners of dough to center and seal. Place in a shallow lightly greased baking dish. Freeze at this point if desired. 
• Make sauce by combining sugar, milk, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg. Pour over dumplings and top each with 1 teaspoon butter. Bake at 375ºF for 35 to 45 minutes or until lightly browned. Serve warm with cream, if desired.

Chocolate Chip Brownies

Chocolate Chips Brownies

The recipes were: 

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Grease a 9x9-inch baking pan.
2. Measure 1 cup sifted flour. Add baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
3. Stir the brown sugar into the melted butter and mix well.
4. Mix the beaten egg and vanilla into the brown sugar mixture.
5. Spread the batter into the prepared pan.

Peanut butter bars

Peanut butter bars

Ingredient:

1. 1 cup butter or margarine, melted
2. 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
3. 2 cups confectioners' sugar
4. 1 cup peanut butter
5. 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
6. 4 table peanut butter

Steps:

1. In a medium bowl, mix together the butter or margarine, graham cracker crumbs, confectioners' sugar, and 1 cup peanut butter until well blended. Press evenly into the bottom of an ungreased 9x13 inch pan.
2. In a metal bowl over simmering water, or in the microwave, melt the chocolate chips with the peanut butter, stirring occasionally until smooth. Spread over the prepared crust. Refrigerate for at least one hour before cutting into squares

Peanut Cup Cookies

Peanut cup cookies

The ingredients:

• 1 3/4 cups of all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla  extract
• 2 teaspoon milk
• 40 miniature chocolate covered peanut butter cups, unwrapped

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Sift together the flour, salt and baking soda; set aside.
2. Cream together the butter, sugar, peanut butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Beat in the egg, vanilla and milk. Add the flour mixture; mix well. Shape into 40 balls and place each into an greased mini muffin pan.
3. Bake at 375 degrees for about 8 minutes. Remove from oven and immediately press a mini peanut butter cup into each ball. Cool and carefully remove from pan.

Maryland Crab Cake

Maryland crab cake

The ingredients: 

1. 1 pound crabmeat, shredded
2. 1 ½ tablespoon of dry bread crumbs
3. 2 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley
4. 1 egg
5. 1 ½ tablespoon of mayonnaise
6. ½ teaspoon ground dry muastard
7. 1 dash hot pepper sauce
8. salt and peper
9. 

Blog Prompts

Blog Prompts:

Discuss what new information you have learned. That I have to be patience while waiting for whatever thing that I’m baking.

Discuss any difficulties or frustrations. I’m not a patient person and can’t wait for anything. I like to get things over with.

Discuss your recent successes. I finished the Oatmeal chocolate chips cookies.

Discuss what you might do differently next time. I'll try to be patient and look at the cookies after a few minutes to make sure nothing happens to it. I kinda had my mom look after i put it in the oven.

Discuss how someone helped you. My dad and i went thought the whole thing together. he made sure that i was paying attention.

Discuss your research process. I found some good website that could help me with baking. some of them had some good recipes. They also had some good choices that i could pick from.

Discuss things you might be having trouble with. I may have trouble with following the recipes the right way because i like doing it my own way. If i do it my way then something goes wrong.

Discuss the steps you plan to take. The only steps ill be taking will be the recipes.

Discuss your feelings about the project. I like this project because we get to do something outside and inside of school. my mostly has to do with outside of school.

Discuss questions you have about the project. Can i be able to change the things i want to bake while doing the same project.

Discuss what scares you about the project. That i bring something to school and it is not good because of something i did. 😐😐. That would be bad.

Discuss what is exciting about the project. I get to eat what i bake.

Discuss how this project connects to your past, present or future. It may  help me be a good baker.

Discuss how this project impacts others. It will help me with baking.

Discuss how you are working with others. I'm working with my dad. i could ask some of my friends to help me bake.

Discuss new skills you need to learn. Being patient.

Discuss your limitations and how you plan to overcome them. Work more on my baking.

Discuss how this project could lead to a career. I don't really want to be a cook so this may not help. 

Discuss how your family or upbringing has or has not prepared you for this project. My mom has dragged me into cooking but i stay out of that.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chips Cookies

For my first work i did a Oatmeal chocolate chips cookies.

I started out with the ones that has the mix's in the bag because i wanted to make the first one easy and go on making the rest with my hands.

For the recipes i used:

The cookie mix.

One egg.

One stick of butter.

First i mixed the cookie mix and the and eggs in a bowl. then i added the stick of butter. i kept steering till it was like a dough. Before putting it on the baking sheet i put the oven on 375. i put the dough on the sheet in even amount of pieces.

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[Fredrica Coggins]

Proposal: [The start of Baking]

[The start of Baking]

Needs and Opportunities

Are you solving a problem for yourself or others? How will this project be a learning and growing experience? What is your goal? I’m solving a problem for myself. I’ll be learning how to bake more and I hope it leads to cooking. To lead somehow to cooking.

Audience / Clients / Users

Explain who will benefit from your project. Who is your audience – who might be interested in following your blog and learning about your project? Mostly me and my mom because she is always telling me to help her cook. People who only like baking and think that is going to help learn how to cooking.

Mentors

Who can help you with this project? Who will you need to contact and what will you ask them to commit to in helping you? My dad may be the best person to help me. My dad can also get the things I need.

Timeline

What is your monthly timeline for this project? I want to see a list of deliverable with deadlines. You may find that the timeline needs adjustment during the course of the year, which may be fine. Check in with me if that’s the case.

February 17	Oatmeal cookies
February 24	Chocolate chips brownies
March 3	Peanut butter bars
March 10	Pumpkin shortbread
March 24	Banana cream pie
March 31	Maryland crab cake
April 7	Peanut cup cookies
April 14	Apple dumplings
April 21	Iced pumpkin cookies
April 28	Raspberry and Almond Shortbread Thumbprints
May 5 (Prep for Presentation Day)	Make a power point
May 12 (Presentation Day)	Take something for sample

Product

What is the actual product you will show this spring? This project may or may not be made of atoms or bits, but you must have something to show. I’m not interested seeing a bunch of great ideas at the end of the year. I want to see things. What I’ve learned. The closer I’m to actually cooking. I’m going to make a power to show my progress.

Technology

You will have to use technology in some way on presentation day – think about how you can use the tools available to add life into your project and enhance what you are doing. (Video, laptops, apps, cell phones, music, etc.) some pictures, power points.

Reality Check

I am looking for you to shoot for the moon here and do anything you can dream of, but even moonshots need budgets. What equipment are you going to need? What other capital expenditures do you anticipate, and how will you meet them? Baking things, I can also get my dad to help me.

Possible Roadblocks

What other roadblocks can you predict – time, resources, motivation etc. Explain what you might do when you come to each roadblock to reach your goal. The time might be a problem because of school and homework.

Conclusion

Wrap it up. Why are you fired up about this project? Inspire me to support you, and give me a great reason to approve your project. I’m going keep what I learned and maybe use it some else. I want to learn and maybe do something in my house other than read.