Baking with the Cake Boss Buddy Valastro

My name is Mya and I am eight years old. Santa brought me a book by Buddy Valastro and it is called, "Baking With the Cake Boss".  I love it!  This book has a lot of pictures in it and tells me how to bake cakes, pies, cookies and more!  It all started with a pie... My mom loves to bake pies and cakes (she isn't very good with cookies) I began with a simple apple pie.  I have made apple pie with my mom and I love the lattice top.  I made Buddy's recipe on page 141, Apple Pie.  The only change I made was the top because I love the lattice top.  My grandma gave me small glass pie pans so my friend Izzy (who is 11) came over and we each baked a pie. 

To peel the pie we used my mom's apple peeler corer slicer.  Then she told us to put the peeled apples in a bowl with lemon-lime soda.  Izzy thought that this was strange!  Mom told her the apples would turn brown if we didn't give them a drink of soda.  We gave them a drink of soda while we got the pie crusts ready.  Izzy learned that corn starch thickens. My Mom is always quizzing me while we cook to teach me things, Izzy is learning too!! (I already knew about the corn starch!) Now, we are waiting for them to come out of the oven.  While we wait, we are reading the book and deciding on our next recipe!  We want to make two today!!

This is my apple pie!!

This is Izzy's pie.

XOXO

Mya