Joy and I, both of us, love watching cookery shows. If we are not sitting down to watch anything specific on the telly, we will settle for a good cookery show. While we were often enthusiastic about experimenting with savoury dishes, the desserts intimidated us. Finally, Masterchef Australia broke us and as 2012 hit midway, we bought a small oven. And thus our ambitious efforts were born. We started off with a simple sponge cake - the first four tries of our oven was to make this sponge cake. The first time we made it, it got too fluffy and collapsed in on itself - though, to be honest, it was yummy. The second time, it didn't fluff up at all, though again, it was quite delicious. It was like eating a softer biscuit. Of course, we trawled the internet for each cake's postmortem. The first time we had beaten the eggs and flour too excessively. The second time the flour was a little more than necessary and the eggs were beaten a little too less. The next two efforts were better overall, however, they weren't something that we would have loved to serve up for friends.
Following these disappointments, we were dejected and there followed a lull in our baking endeavours. We would take turns to look at the oven wistfully a few times a day. Gathering up our spirits took a while. A few weeks later, we planned an alternative approach. We said, "well maybe not the cake, how about trying for something smaller, a cupcake recipe perhaps?" Very tentatively, we made a plain cupcake. We took a bite off the first one, chewed it and our eyes and taste buds lit up. It was GOOD. Our eyes twinkled and we could hear each other think "We should make this more often" before it was articulated aloud. Then, we laughed. And then, we spent the next couple of days wading through the entire batch with a song in our hearts. Hahahaha I exaggerate, of course. The days didn't go down like that. In hindsight, that cupcake gets us an A+ for simply trying it. Otherwise, I might have spent forever sending wistful looks at the oven.
Here, then, was the genesis for our weekend cupcake capers.
We often made little variations in fillings and choice of flours. I am still too intimidated to make any bold changes.
I will pen down these simple recipes for cupcakes and other desserts that we have tried so far and we plan to prepare next.
Following these disappointments, we were dejected and there followed a lull in our baking endeavours. We would take turns to look at the oven wistfully a few times a day. Gathering up our spirits took a while. A few weeks later, we planned an alternative approach. We said, "well maybe not the cake, how about trying for something smaller, a cupcake recipe perhaps?" Very tentatively, we made a plain cupcake. We took a bite off the first one, chewed it and our eyes and taste buds lit up. It was GOOD. Our eyes twinkled and we could hear each other think "We should make this more often" before it was articulated aloud. Then, we laughed. And then, we spent the next couple of days wading through the entire batch with a song in our hearts. Hahahaha I exaggerate, of course. The days didn't go down like that. In hindsight, that cupcake gets us an A+ for simply trying it. Otherwise, I might have spent forever sending wistful looks at the oven.
Here, then, was the genesis for our weekend cupcake capers.
We often made little variations in fillings and choice of flours. I am still too intimidated to make any bold changes.
I will pen down these simple recipes for cupcakes and other desserts that we have tried so far and we plan to prepare next.
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