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Posted: 5/12/2008 4:30:38 PM | These are just a few things I have done when I had a camera handy.
http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/f10/goboenomo-s-baking-thread-29805.html
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Posted: 5/12/2008 4:53:00 PM | | Wow, what an awesome baker you are! I love to bake but I can't cook. lol Those peanut butter balls are also called Buckeye's here in Ohio. Made the same way except we only dip a little more than half in chocolate so you can still see the peanut butter. Do you sell any of your goodies? I bet if you have an outlet, you could really make some money. Keep posting! | |
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Posted: 5/12/2008 5:02:48 PM | Thank you! I love to do both. I started baking when I was about 12 and my I asked my mom if we had any cookies. She told me, if you want some, go make them, so I did. Since then I have been baking whenever I have enough extra time. I got my first job cooking at a restaurant called Montanas Cookhouse when I was 14. I worked there for 4 and a half years. I had to quit at the beginning of the school year, because they wouldn't change my schedule to match college.
I don't sell any of them. I have been told by countless people I should, maybe it will be something to look into eventually. I have been asked by a friend who owned his own restaurant, he told me he needed some more time before I started making stuff for him so he could settle in, but he ended up having to shut down the restaurant... bad location. I did try selling candy once at a pancake fundraiser my mom organized. I baked cookies and made 4 batches of candy. The problem was that we were running the fundraiser through a maple syrup, candy, etc. business. So the cookies sold, but the candy did not. | |
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Posted: 5/12/2008 5:45:12 PM | I hope you don't mind but I added your site to my favs! What a talented fellow you are. Would seem your Mom telling you to go and bake it yourself was a darned fine idea! You are young and seem well on your way to the career you desire. Good for you! I love to see young people with dreams and ambition. My son, who is also your age, is wanting his own restaurant when he gets things together. He is entering an apprentice program this January. I hope you both see your dreams come to fruition! | |
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Posted: 5/12/2008 5:57:33 PM | That's no problem, the more people the merrier. Once my mom found out I made my own cookies, and enjoyed doing it, she went all out getting me ingredients and tools i needed to make sure I kept enjoying it.
Having a restaurant would be pretty sweet. Right now I'm in school for Business Administration and majoring in Accounting. We will see what happens. | |
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Posted: 5/14/2008 6:43:57 AM | | I have an easy one for you. Make cookie dough as you would for peanut butter cookies but be sure to use creamy peanut butter. Roll into 1 inch balls and drop each into a nut tassie pan. Bake at 350 until they look a liitle golden. Leave them in the pan after they are done baking and drop a mini peanut butter cup in the center. Pushing it down just enough that it's as high as the cookie. Let cool a little then use a butter knife to hepl get it out of the pan. It takes awhile for the candy on top to harden. I have to make these either in the middle of the night and packed away because they get eaten as fast as I can bake them | |
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Posted: 5/14/2008 10:50:39 PM | That sounds great. I think I will try that. I found the exact recipe here http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1613,156167-225198,00.html
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Posted: 5/17/2008 3:26:37 PM | | WOW Zzyxk! I'm impressed - one day you may be a famous entrepreneur and we can all say we saw you here!! Keep up the yummy work! | |
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Posted: 5/17/2008 3:45:08 PM | | I printed out the recipe but what is a tassie pan? Can I just bake them on a cookie sheet and do the same thing when they're done? | |
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Posted: 5/17/2008 5:39:30 PM | Thank you BlueEyedMinnow.
Drkeyedbeauty, here is a picture of a tassie pan. http://k53.pbase.com/o4/25/285225/1/53558800.TassiesBefore.jpg
I think the idea of the pan is to keep the cookies from spreading too far apart so you can put those peanut butter cups in the cookies with no problems. | |
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Posted: 5/17/2008 6:53:58 PM | | Thanks for the pic Zzyxk. Looks like a muffin pan so i'm gonna assume I can use a muffin pan for the cookies. | |
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Posted: 5/17/2008 6:59:31 PM | A tassie pan is another name for a mini muffin tin.
from one of my pastry cookbooks:
Tassie Cups is a term that can mean both the cups in a muffin tin, and small tart shells made of pastry. If a recipe says "Buy (or make) tassie cups", it means pastry shells. Otherwise, the recipe will specify something such as "foil tassie cups." | |
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Posted: 7/6/2008 11:59:52 PM | I just checked out your link, and have to say, my mouth is watering from looking at those yummy foods lol
I'm really impressed too and can't wait to try out the peanut butter balls recipe! Do you have any more recipes for delicious candy/desserts so I can try them out? lol | |
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Posted: 8/24/2008 9:54:50 PM | I havent been around in a while. Sorry for the late response, hopefully you get back to this.
I've been going crazy making a lot of hard candy at home. I'm actually thinking about going out and getting all the prices of my ingredients, labor, electricity, packaging, ect. and selling candy.
http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/f44/goboenomos-easy-candy-making-guide-with-photos-48472.html
The flavouring I use is a very concentrated flavour that comes in 3.7ml drams, so other flavours might need more (if you live in an area where there is a Bulk Barn, you can pick up these bottles of LorAnne Gourmet flavours for $2 a dram (I'm sure you could find a confections shop with them too)). It's all a matter of experimentation. I used to pour my candy onto a baking sheet and just smash it into little pieces of what looked like glass. Then I tried using molds. I took to long to fill the molds one time, and burnt the sugar :(, but instead of just tossing it out... I played around with the candy, bunched it up, and started pulling it. The coconut candy in the link I posted is my first real candy pulling. I have it down now.
http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/f26/at-least-i-could-do-something-right-today-48679.html
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Posted: 8/26/2008 9:50:50 AM | DUDE...I want to work for you. As your Official Taster.
awesome site, but even better awesome looking goodies. | |
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