April 2023 – Genius Hour with Devan

Genius Hour Week 5

I am still waiting for Bread+Butter to respond, but since it has been over a month now this week i’m going to contact another expert.

I found a new expert called Duchess Bakery. I messaged them today and hopefully i’ll get a response soon with information that could help me improve.

The last few baked goods I made were cinnamon buns, muffins, and a cake for my Birthday but didn’t take pictures of. The cake went well although it could have been more moist, but the icing was made with cream cheese, powdered sugar, and heavy wiped cream which was really good.

Genius Hour Week 4

This week I made maple muffins with a recipe Inaiya, Lydia, and I created during our food class. I left the muffins to bake for about 20 minutes, after I took them out I found that they were a little over-baked which made them dry. They tasted okay, but if I were to make them again I would add more maple syrup, as it did not taste too sweet and only had a mild maple flavor.

Other than this week’s Genius Hour, my expert still hasn’t replied. If I still haven’t gotten a response by next week I will look for another expert to contact.

Genius Hour Week 3

This week I made cinnamon buns with a recipe I found online. It was pretty easy at first but then I made a really bad mistake. The recipe calls for yeast, but I had traditional instead of quick rise, so when I was letting the dough rest it wasn’t rising and that was because the yeast wasn’t added properly. I had to take out the little inactivated yeast balls and then add activated yeast. In the end it worked out and you wouldn’t have guessed anything wrong had happened.

If you look closely you can see the unactivated yeast in the first picture

This was the process of rolling and cutting the cinnamon buns into pieces

This was the brown sugar cinnamon mixture I put inside the roles.

These were the final steps and results of my cinnamon buns.

Besides the baking my expert still hasn’t responded to me.