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Pastry and Baking at The French Culinary Institute

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

http://www.frenchculinary.com/french-culinary-institute-video-tour.htm?cmp=vid-you

Learn about the Classic Pastry Program at The FCI.
With hands-on training, you will learn to master
cookies, tarts, pastries, wedding cakes, chocolates, fondant, blown sugar and sugar sculptures in as little as six months.

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PHILADELPHIA New York Cheesecake

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

PHILADELPHIA New York Cheesecake

Prep Time: 15 min. | Total Time: 5 hours 25 min. (incl. refrigerating) | Makes: 16 servings.

What You Need!
20 OREO Cookies, finely crushed (about 2-1/4 cups)
3 Tbsp. butter or margarine, melted
5 pkg. (8 oz. each) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
3 Tbsp. flour
1 Tbsp. vanilla
1 cup BREAKSTONE’S or KNUDSEN Sour Cream
4 eggs
1 can (21 oz.) cherry pie filling

Make It!
Heat oven to 325ºF.
1. Line 13×9-inch pan with foil, with ends of foil extending over sides. Mix crumbs and butter; press
onto bottom of pan.
2. Beat cream cheese, sugar, flour and vanilla with mixer until well blended.
Add sour cream; mix well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each just until blended.
Pour over crust.
3. Bake 40 min. or until center is almost set. Cool completely. Refrigerate 4 hours. Top with pie filling.
Use foil handles to lift cheesecake from pan before cutting to serve.

How to Bake in Springform Pan:
Prepare and bake cheesecake as directed, substituting a 9-inch springform pan for the 13×9-inch pan
and increasing the baking time to 1 hour 10 min. or until center is almost set. Run knife or metal
spatula around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool before removing rim.

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Pancakes II: Pancakes for your face

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

5th of February 2008 is pancake day – make sure to celebrate it by cooking up a batch of pancakes, and trying some new toppings.

Visit http://www.welovepancakes.com for recipe ideas and a breif history on how pancakes came to be so popular

These ARE pancakes – pancakes are different things in different countries. These are pancakes here in Britain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake

Music & Video by James Provan.
Thanks to David Bradley for some ideas, and for stealing my pancakes. Thanks to my parents for putting up with cameras and mess in their kitchen for weeks!

Frequently asked questions:

there are 2500 frames of animation
It took about 90 hours to film & edit
Edited with Final Cut Studio
Music written in Logic Studio
Cameras – Canon 350D still camera (90% of footage)
Panasonic DVX 100b video camera (10% footage)

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