Cooking with Karina and Polina

   Back in November, Polina and Karina came to my house for a cooking sleepover. We had almost immediately  decided that we wanted to improve our skills in making éclairs and then show our talents by bringing some for the next baking sale.
   The first thing that we did was making the pastry. Here is the recipe we've used:

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup of flour
• 1 cup of water
• 1/2 tea spoon of salt
• 100 g of butter

   The pastry then had to be piped onto a cooking tray using a piping syringe. The tray should then be put in a pre-heated oven for 30-40 minutes so that the éclairs become golden.
   While our elcairs were in the oven, we decided to make the vanilla custard filling. The ingredients for that are:

• 1 cup of milk
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 1/2 tbs of flour
• vanillin

   We finished cooking the filling and when the eclairs were ready filled them with the custard using the same piping syringe. Normally, eclairs would then be covered with melted chocolate, but personally I don't like doing that, so I proposed to use colourful icing instead. Luckily, Karina and Polina were up for being a little bit creative with this, so we used blue, green, purple and pink icing to put on top of our eclairs.
   Next day we brought our masterpieces to school in order for other people to try them and tell us what they think. A couple of people complained about the toxic colour of the icing, however overall we got complimented on our work, so it made us feel like all our work was worth it.

   This activity helped us achieve the following:
   - Increase awareness of our weakness and strengths
   - Develop new skills