Bakingwhiz’s

Whenever you cook, there are certain safety rules you must always keep in mind. Even experienced cooks follow these rules when they are in the kitchen.
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Always wash your hands before handling food. Thoroughly wash all raw vegetables and fruits to remove dirt, chemicals, and insecticides. Wash uncooked poultry, fish, and meat under cold water.
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Use a cutting board when cutting up vegetables and fruits. Don’t cut them up in your hand! And be sure to cut in a direction away from you and your fingers.
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Long hair or loose clothing can easily catch fire if brought near the burners of a stove. If you have long hair, tie it back before you start cooking.
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Turn all pot handles toward the back of the stove so that you will not catch your sleeves or jewelry on them. This is especially important when younger brothers and sisters are around. They could easily knock off a pot and get burned.
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Always use a pot holder to steady hot pots or to take pans out of the oven. Don’t use a wet cloth on a hot pan because the steam it produces could burn you.
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Lift the lid of a steaming pot with the opening away from you so that you will not get burned.
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If you get burned, hold the burn under cold running water. Do not put grease or butter on it. Cold water helps to take the heat out, but grease or butter will only keep it in.
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If grease or cooking oil catches fire, throw baking soda or salt at the bottom of the flame to put it out. (Water will not put out a grease fire.) Call for help, and try to turn all the stove burners to “off.”
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if you want to have them as presents, you might as well place it in a jar and give them out as a surprise!

Here’s what you do:

1. Mix flour, baking powder, and baking soda.

2. Pour into a 1 liter jar and pack down level.

3. In a blender, mix and grate oatmeal and chocolate bar.

4. Pack on the jar. Add white sugar and brown sugar packed down after each addition.

5. Layer with copped nuts. Finish top by scattering with chocolate chips until the top.

Just stick the recipe on the jar and its ready to go! Go make some of your loved ones smile with this one.

White Chocolate Chunk Brownies!

Who says Valentine’s Day is only for lovers? That ain’t true actually. We live in a world where love doesn’t choose anyone. So why be lonely?

If you’re just one of those who are tired of the usual and would want to be extraordinary thinkers when it comes to coming up with something new (and sweet)this Valentine’s Day, then you came to the right spot.

The possibilities are endless! But we finally came up with for the most anticipated 14th day of February was to have a beautifully packed assortment of brownies that would actually make great gifts for friends, for special people, and most of all - for yourself.

Not only do they look great but you also get a double dose of chocolate as each brownie is stuffed with chocolate pieces giving it the extraordinary chewy middles. The colorful frostings turn these brownies into something deliciously special. They come in seven different looks. Though we only have the chocolate and white chocolate chunk brownies, we made them special by picking different ingredients to add in. By using any combination of chocolate and white chocolate chips, chopped nuts, candy-coated chocolate pieces, etc. we finally came up with these:

? chocolate frosting topped with white chocolate chips? white chocolate frosting topped with chocolate chips

? chocolate frosting topped with grated white chocolate

? white chocolate frosting topped with grated chocolate

? pink frosting garnished with white chocolate chips

? white chocolate frosting topped with colorful candy-coated chocolate sprinkles

? chocolate frosting topped with colorful candy-coated chocolate sprinkles

So after spending much time and money with those bouquets and cards, try adding up this great box of Valentine’s brownies. For just 180php for a box of eight brownies, you’ll surely melt the hearts of those to whom they will be given..

It is of every little girl’s dream to discover how magic works.. the wonder behind how every bit of something that eventually becomes something really wonderful..

It gives you the evident fact that life is just a piece of cake..

A little bit of all the strange, exciting, extraordinary mix of what life is..

Let me tell you the story of how I started on baking. It actually is something done out of pure curiosity for me. Six years ago, I happened to get this flier about a baking class for the summer. I got my mom into enrolling me in that class. Thinking about it now makes me remember the happy days and how I once was the little child who dreamed to achieve something.

I got really into that baking thing we did, it made me realize that being young is not a reason for someone not to be pursuing on discovering new things. It was my first time to enroll in a cooking class. I was both excited and reluctant at the same time. It wasn’t so bad at all when every one who enrolled actually are first timers. We did cookies of all sorts, baking brownies with a twist, and we even got to decorate our own chocolate cake! After two weeks of class, our graduation day came. It was of course, the very memorable part of the whole experience; considering that we all have this last day to hold on to before we part ways. What really made the event pull off heartstrings was that, instead of awarding us with medals and beautifully designed certificates, we were awarded with our - aprons. It may seem a bit too funny as it may seem. But for the kids that we were then, it was more than just a dirty apron full of chocolate smears. It was then that the realization came to me.

“Oh no, you won’t be bringing with you your aprons. Don’t worry about the mess, it would mean you’re really learning…” said Mrs. Malferari.

More than anything else that I’ve learned during that summer was that our chocolate hand prints on ourselves makes us more of who we are. Its more than just stains that would stay there forever. It in turn rewards us of our sometimes unseen efforts of believing that we can do much if we only have the heart to do it. My passion then, started when i was a that little girl. Waiting for a magical moment that changed my life from then on..