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Mardi Gras is a big deal mainly because Louisiana is the only state that celebrates it. As always, there is a famous dish that comes along with this holiday and it is King Cake. King Cake is a dessert that is made up of bread, filling, and colorful icing. King Cake was created in the mid-1800s and was made to celebrate the 12th night after Christmas. This dessert represents the coming of the three kings or three wise men (Dave). There are many simple steps to creating a King Cake. After creating the strips of dough for the King Cake, some braids then bakes the strips together which creates the unique look to the dessert. Some people may wonder what makes this thick piece of bread a dessert. Well, after the dough bakes into its unique form, someone splatters icing all over the cake and covers the dough in Mardi Gras colored sprinkles (purple, green and gold). Sometimes King Cakes will be made with different kinds of filling such as, cream cheese, strawberry, apple, or other types. The Mardi Gras colored sprinkles that are on King Cakes symbolize powerful words. Purple stands for justice, green stands for faith, and gold stands for power. The meanings of the colors were created in 1892 during the Rex Parade (Dave). The world’s largest King Cake was baked in 1998 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and it weighed 350 pounds (Dave). There is a secret ingredient that someone inserts in each King Cake and that is

Do you remember what it was once like to win a trophy? Those huge, golden statues that resembled an accomplishment that you completed? How happy you were when you received your very own trophy too? Everyone should be able to recall when you were once rewarded for any outstanding achievement that they've done. What if I told you, however, that the trophy you received when you were a child wasn't so special? That it was, in fact, a participation trophy, and every other child got one. Would it be so special now? That's the problem that kids are facing now with participation trophy's, due to its lack of being "one of a kind". I believe that because of its lack of being unique, a participation trophy shouldn't be required to be given out at our

Legal advertisement can be related to sociological perspective. With the help of Marc Galanter's Essay "Why the Haves Come out Ahead" lawyer’s advertisement can be held to be useful. Marc Galanter says that Law and Inequality persist in the society; he says that social inequalities produce legal inequalities. This is because the dominant classes and social groups have interests in perpetuating their dominance through wealth, status and power. They have myriad resource advantage for influencing legislation. With this he defined two groups in society with respect to litigation; he distinguishes between one shot players and repeat players. The former have only occasional recourse to courts whereas the latter are engaged in similar litigation.

Baking for me is a passion, at times a stress reliver. The passion for baking became stronger over the years from baking for friends and family and watching them enjoy my baked goods, and telling me how amazing they taste. They have encouraged me to have my own business of which one day I hope to accomplish, as it is one of my biggest dreams, even if I don’t become as big as Buddy Valastro; whom I one-day hope to have the opportunity to work for.

Life does not always go smooth or according to plan, and throughout a person's life they will be faced with many challenges. The basis of overcoming these challenges and obstacle relies on the person's outlook and where they place their focus. When confronted by an obstacles, one can take a step forward to find a solution or choose to ignore the problem. Today, I recall the time where my soccer team and I were placed in a difficult situation and how by taking initiative and showing leadership I was able to help my team overcome this adversity.

According to the Culture and Values: A Survey of the Western Humanities, the Rococo period was aimed towards the aristocratic audience and its arts were light and delicate that protected the aristocrats from the real world (Cunningham et al. 529). Art became more accessible to the common man so the art style of the Rococo period was directed to the aristocrats, but they wanted more items that only they could enjoy. As a result of this, they threw many elaborate parties with some of the most expensive centerpieces, decorated cakes. Only the rich could afford these centerpieces because at this point in history, sugar was still expensive, but sugar was the key to cake decorating. It was stated by Liz Williams that cakes in the beginning of the 18th century were covered with an icing (made by sugar and eggs that was boiled), that was baked on top the cake; from there, decorations were made from marzipan (a candy made from sugar, honey, and ground almonds) or other pastes made from sugar and these decorations could be molded into anything shape and colored (Williams). From this basic form of decorating, cake art has evolved into using fondant, sculpting cakes, and exclusive cakes. Without the original decorating, there would never be the art influences that are used to decorate today’s elaborate

First you gather ingredients and equipment. You will need ¾ cups of sifted cake flour, ¼ cups of unsweetened coco powder, 1 ½ cups of sugar, 12 large egg whites,

That being said, baking does not have to be boring. Once you grasp the basics of baking, you will be able to make any recipe your own. It actually becomes a quite addicting hobby. It may be messier and more difficult than just buying that cake mix from the store, but it is also ten times the fun and tastes way better!

This cake decorating kit offers the ability to make your mind more creative and very productive. It is designed with easy, quick baking tips, better dexterity for beginners & professionals chefs alike. It contains the perfect frosting pips to make your cakes, deserts and cookies the focal point of any table.

Having the right kitchen tools can make the experience more enjoyable. The proper mixer is a worthwhile investment as it will make the baking experience much easier. The advantages to owning this type of kitchen equipment are worth the higher price. Mixing batters by hand or by using a hand held mixer may not always get the batter to the desired consistency. Good quality cake pans are equally important as they help to ensure that

Katzenbach and Smith (1993) describe a team as “a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, perform goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.” These teams may range from sports teams to work teams which all work together towards a common purpose and the utilization of well-defined goals.

I hope everyone is looking forward to a great soccer season! By now, I believe everyone has had the chance to speak with my husband, Coach Ben, who is super excited to get this soccer season underway! :)

Soccer is the third most played team sport in the United states.There are 234 international soccer teams. Every four years there is a world cup. Although there are over 200 international soccer teams,we will be comparing Mexico’s and the U.S.A’s  professional soccer team. As the two soccer teams are compared, all soccer fans can agree that Mexico’s team performs far better than their American counterpart.

Ashley has heard about this and did her research. She found out a lot about how classes were therapeutic to regular people, but how cake decorating has been known to help celebrities and prisoners as well. Gabrielle Fantelli talks about the benefits of baking therapy in her article and claims, “Kneading a batch of bread dough for 10/15 minutes will sure take away a lot of frustration and negative feeling, the weighing of the ingredients, the repetitive motions and the feeling of being in control could help keep calm and level up unruly anxiety feelings” (para 2). She is acknowledging here that many components of baking can help get out a lot of negative emotions and free someone of a negative mentality or disposition. In Helen Razer’s article, grandma Eileen Scriven expresses that “It's just a beautiful medium. I relax by making my flowers and such at night." I have four daughters and eight grandchildren, and one little one with autistic features. We have a battle. But I have my cake decorating" (1). What she has expressed is that making the delicate parts of a decorated cake can be relaxing, and can be a get away from family stressors-- something that is appealing to Ashley since she often has troubles at home. But what really inspires Ashley is the testimonies of celebrities in the cake decorating world who have found it therapeutic. John Whaite declares “Baking helps lift my depression. It can't cure it but it helps," (qtd. In Dawood (para 2 and 3). In need of background information, Dawood comments that eight years ago, he was diagnosed with manic depression. Whaite himself elaborates "When I'm in the kitchen, measuring the amount of sugar, flour or butter I need for a recipe or cracking the exact number of eggs - I am in control. That's really important as a key element of my condition is a feeling of no control" (qtd. In Dawood para 5). Ashley finds these quotes from John Whaite

The sanitation of the premise is good where it is important to make sure the cake is safe to consume by the consumer.