With Fall around the corner, the Bake Shop prepares to make fall desserts in period three. One of the recipes they make is chocolate chip pumpkin bread. The class splits up, half make banana bread, and half make pumpkin bread.

The experienced seniors, Carli Cassone, Jaime Sanz, and Jagger Rees have taken Intro to Culinary, Advanced Culinary, and currently Bake Shop. Bake Shop is a culinary course that is all about baking and its processes. The seniors keep returning to this class, due to their love for the class. 

 During Bake Shop they always prepare the day before a lab. For this dessert, they sat together and watched a video to see how it was made, and they used what they learned to make the pumpkin bread. They also had a discussion before to decide if they wanted to make pumpkin bread or banana bread. 

Cassone states, “I feel like this class should be required.” She says that she now feels like she can be more independent when making food at home and this class has taught her many life skills. Cassone says how she knows many people who don’t even know how to make simple foods at home and she thinks it is important to know how.

In the kitchen, groups need to work well together. Cassone, Rees, and Sanz have mastered this skill. They have no specific roles but all work together to get things done, while waiting for their food to cook they all help out and clean the kitchen.

Cassone and Rees state, “We would say that we are the best chefs in the group because we won Chopped together.” Chopped is a competition in Advanced Culinary where all groups battle it out for the titles of best chefs. 

Although they won Chopped, they have made their fair share of mistakes. In past years, Cassone says she has made some mistakes while cooking, one being she burnt a pizza. She took this as a learning opportunity to get better.  

Miss Randy states, “Happy mom, happy teacher.” 

Randy has always had a career in culinary. She was once a caterer and personal chef, once she became a single mom her priorities changed. To be the mother she wanted to be she needed a career change. She is now the culinary teacher we all love and is happier than ever. 

Although culinary is a fun and easy class, it takes lots of hard work and skill to teach students lessons that they could use for years to come.