Friday, May 2, 2008

Our unsuccessful but still delicious for a teenager cake :D

Emmy & I baked our cake todayy and it didn't turn out all that successful but it wasn't that bad either :D
At first we were planning to sprinkle & decorate the cake with fresh mangoes but unfortunately, we had no idea how to pick out mangoes in the supermarket so we decided to stick to canned fruits ;d
Since we weren't able to find castor sugar, we had to use sugar cubes & we had fun breaking them hehes. While mixing the batter, I found it fascinating that the batter doubled/trippled in size but unfortunately for us again, we deflated the batter when folding in the butter and flour. Our folding skill needs some work =X
When the cake was done baking, it was kinda flat =X It didn't rise as much as it was suppose to and therefore, we weren't able to split it in half to put in the mixed fruits in between. But we improvised along the way which was kind of cool :D
What I found even cooler was the WHIPPING CREAM ! :D
I bought some Heavy Whipping Cream and whisked it with a beater thing and it actually became WHIPPING CREAM ! I was so amazed. I added in a lot of sugar and vanilla along the way which actually became kind of sweet but thats OK :D
Emily decorated the cake since my decoration skill is Z-E-R-O.
&& in the end, our cake wishes GOOD LUCK TO SUPERMAN :D

Thursday, May 1, 2008

me & my bbitwww

I've been inspired by "Happy Home Baking's" blog and have decided to start my own. My best buddy in the whole wide world (bbitwww), Emmy and I love baking and cooking new things as well as trying out new recipes. We're still amateurs at this so please bear with us =) As you may have guess, we are both still very young - 15 ;]
I've discovered my passion or we've discovered our passion for baking when we were both in the seventh grade and I was in the need of baking a cake for my mom's birthday. And so, we bought two boxes of cake mix and Emily helped me with the cake & my mom loved it :D
Heres our very first creation ;]

Over the years, we've experimented with more baked goods - some turned out well & others didn't. Some of the things I've tried to make included different variety of cakes, cookies, bagels, brownies, jello and thats basically it ;D
Ciao ;]