Cookery Sleepover with Alyona and sis.

My sister (http://polinasemochkinacasblog.blogspot.ru/) and I have spent last night at Alyona's house (http://alyonasukhovabism.blogspot.ru/) and one of the many fun things that we did was cooking eclairs (or oversized profiteroles). 

First step was to make the pastry out of basic ingredients including flour, eggs, boiled water, butter, salt and sugar. After this we filled a plain-nozzle piping syringe with dough and piped out 5-7 cm lengths of pastry onto a cooking tray. It took it around 30-40 mins in a pre-heated oven to fully bake.

When we have achieved the golden color of our pastry, we once again used the same piping syringe but with a smaller diameter nozzle to fill the eclairs with vanilla custard. 

We could have just stopped there and served eclairs the way they were but Alyona has suggested another creative idea: to decorate them with colorful icing. Despite the fact that a lot of people who had an opportunity to try our "masterpiece" so to speak commented on the toxicity of the color, I personally thought that it was a great idea as it masked the holes from piping the filling and gave our eclairs an overall finished look. 

After spending the night at the kitchen we brought eclairs to school and decided to ask people around to degustate them and tell us what they thought. I have recorded some of the feedback that we got and Polina made a video out of the footage. I am of course attaching it to this post as proof. 

I genuinely enjoyed cooking eclairs and I believe that this activity was an excellent example of collaborate work. 

In addition to that I have: 

- increased awareness of strengths and areas for growth

- planned and initiated activities 

- shown perseverance and commitment to my activities 

- developed new skills

- been a reflective and caring communicator