Great MFS Baking Show

Slideshow photos by Ailsa Moriuchi ’11 Today, the bakers presented their final showstopper bakes to six judges. The Smart Cookies (Dylan, Nai, and Jack) decided to bake strawberry cheesecake cookies. They made a delicious cookie dough and folded strawberries into it. After skillful manipulation, they were able to fill their cookies with a sweet...

Today, the Great MFS Baking Show Intensive Learning had some fun baking four different chocolate chip cookie recipes in the morning. Each recipe was a little different. Itty Bitty Bow’s recipe was vegan since it used flaxseed as a substitute for eggs. GKL’s recipe included brown butter, creating a cookie with a nuttier flavor...

Today, the Great MFS Baking Show Intensive Learning made pancakes and eggless muffins! In the morning, the bakers got to choose between buttermilk and regular pancakes. Two teams made a batch of buttermilk, and the other two teams made regular, but they all fed fellow IL members and teachers. We made muffins in the...

At the start of the day, the contestants were briefed on what yeast is and how it works. The contestants then moved out to the kitchen and began baking bread from scratch. They made mixtures of salt and flour and of water, molasses, and yeast, and then combined the mixtures into a dough. When...

On the first day of The Great MFS Baking Show our contestants familiarized themselves with multiple baking techniques and tips to help them succeed throughout the challenges. Today was cake day. While two groups headed off to the kitchen to begin, the other group stayed behind to watch and analyze a cake challenge episode...