Dax Cannon, senior, is a student in the Culinary Academy at Jupiter High. On Oct. 29, Cannon hosted a fundraiser cooking class in support of the Best Buddies Champion of the Year Campaign.
Best Buddies is an international organization dedicated towards creating opportunities for building one-on-one friendships with students with varying intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Best Buddies Champion of the Year Campaign unites and recognizes the community’s most inclusive and active leaders. These leaders devote their passion and talents towards transforming change in their communities.
In support of this goal, the Culinary Academy welcomed 15 guests to make a special fall treat.
“What I think went extremely well was the actual class and the turnout. We had 15 people total,” Cannon said. “The food turned out great.”
Cannon guided the class through a series of directions to ensure the quality of their dish. This dish, dutch oven peach cobbler, was personally selected by Cannon himself.
“I had planned a dutch oven cobbler I had made at my young men’s camp,” Cannon said. “I needed to do something easy.”
The directions of preparing the dish go as follows. First, add one can of peaches to a pan and one box of dry cake mix to cover the canned peaches. Put five slices of butter. Cover in Sprite to the point where you can’t see the dry cake mix anymore.
Attendees were told to add Sprite and then cook this at home after the class was completed.
“The fold turned out really well, it was really good,” Emily Trejo, senior, said. “[Cannon] gave us a sample to try that he had made prior to the class. We took the ones we made in class home for our families.”
The class consisted of families, individuals and more coming out to learn how to cook a new dish and support Cannon’s campaign.
“I consider it a success,” Cannon said. “I would very much do a cooking class again.”
