UBC Food Society

Yesterday, Alex’s mini club met for the last time to make and exchange three kinds of delicious cookies. Much as I love cookies, I’m glad my friends have a sweet tooth too because all three recipes made a lot! Here they are, in order of baking:

  For our last mini-club session of the year, instead of having it on Saturday, which is our typical meeting time, it was on Sunday!  Two dessert-making groups merged and on that day we made four different desserts in around five hours!  I must say, most of us were full just eating the desserts; there [...]

Monday night, March 28th, was quite an adventure – 9 people, 3 courses, food from 3 countries… no recipes. I got my workout for the week carrying the groceries, not realizing that I should have taken up my team’s offer to help grocery shop. So much for quick and easy! My printout of the recipes [...]

To borrow a phrase from the Wizard of Oz: Choux pastry, spun sugar, and eleven people in Ryan’s kitchen, oh my. Last Sunday Alex’s and Lisa’s baking groups joined forces to create more desserts than ever before. To begin with, we made profiteroles all together and ate them hot with vanilla ice cream and chocolate [...]

Last session we made Chocolate Souffle and Carrot and Zucchini bars.  They both did not turn out the way we expected but it was still a very educational experience! We thought that the Chocolate Souffle  was a little too wet and pudding-like, but turns out it was actually supposed to be like that (after some [...]