Pizza and Dessert Party

The last night of the apprenticeship, we had a pizza party. At Emerald Earth pizza parties the cooks light a fire in the cob oven a few hours before hand, get the toppings ready and make the dough, then people make small pizzas and putting whatever combination of toppings strike their fancy. Whoever is the baker at the time bakes them, it only takes about 5 minutes, and a few can fit in the oven at once. This time Darryl, Steph and Anne baked. They get put directly on the oven floor using a paddle, pans are only used to transport them during construction and while they wait to bake. When a pizza is done it gets cut up and eaten, often by a few people, so if you want to eat one you made you keep track.

Aria got into making cool shaped pizzas, she made a heart, pictured here, as well as a star.






















The apprentices and Aria also each made a dessert, and a few of us picked berries as dessert toppings. Mojo used the oven after it was done baking pizzas to bake a vegan fruit sweetened carrot cake. Anastasia made banana sorbet, putting frozen bananas through the champion juicer. Aria made an amazing looking chocolate layer cake with berries on top. Anne and Steph each baked a batch of cookies the evening before. Justin and Steve made vanilla ice cream, well they got everything ready, other people helped crank ice cream makers during the party.