Life at the Bay

At Sugar Bay, our campers love it when we get food involved in our Arts and Crafts classes. One of our popular Arts & Crafts activities with food has to be biscuit decorating.    After getting our campers to bake their own biscuits, we get them to decorate them with royal icing. Their creativity really comes out to play when they indulge in this activity.  Here are 3 very important techniques we taught our campers to use when icing biscuits: Technique 1 - Line Icing:   Tip: Ensure that your line icing is the same texture of toothpaste – slightly thick and gooey.   Line icing is basically an outline around a shape. People would use this technique if they are going to fill the inside of the outline with flood icing. You need to make sure that you create an outline that does not have any gaps. If there are any gaps, the flood icing will flow through and your biscuit will not look very attractive. A piping bag with a narrow cut is the best i...

From the 17th of December to the 23rd it's raining doughnuts at Sugar Bay. Put your chef's hats on and get ready for a mouth watering week on our shores. In the meantime we've found this quick and simple baked Nutella doughnuts with Nutella Glaze. Prep Time : 20 minutes Cook Time: 8 minutes Yield: 9 doughnuts   Ingredients 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder 1 1/4 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 cup granulated sugar 3 Tbsp packed light-brown sugar 1/3 cup Nutella 3 Tbsp butter, softened 1 large egg 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 1/2 cup milk Glaze 1 cup powdered sugar 2 1/2 Tbsp Nutella 4 - 6 tsp milk 1/2 tsp vanilla extract Chopped, toasted hazelnuts or sprinkles, for topping (optional)         Directions:   Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder, bak...