After the very emo weekend and entering post emo, I decided to get on with attempt at baking since I'm so blickin' free. The objective was to bake a plain chocolate cake without icing. Without further a do, let the pictures tell you the kind of skills I have for this mini project of mine.
The needed ingredients and utensils/ tools.
The really cool scale I bought at Safeway (aka as Woolworths to the WA people) and using it to measure the butter. As you can see, my give-or-take measurement is a bit off.
Here I'm trying to sift the flour. But with a very small sift or rather a strainer. I need to upgrade and make my next attempts look more professional. And also to help me bake faster. It took ages. Must use proper utensils!
I didn't have cocoa powder to mix because it was rather expensive compared to a block of cooking chocolate. Which I need to tell myself also that I should have gotten powdered version because it does affect the end results. Tsk tsk tsk. Budget baking :P
After putting in the initial ingredients of butter, flour and baking powder I added the melted chocolate.
I had to mix the earlier combination and as you can see the texture isn't that good. It was pretty much clumpy when it was supposed to be powdery. And now the final ingredient of vanilla essense. There is actually more stuff to put in...I can't remember. LOL.
Pouring in the mix and anticipation rising!
Popped in the preheated oven and to wait for about an hour.
It's looks a bit fugly with the dark colour and hole-y and crusty texture. But hey, my first try.
LOL! Not bad actually. The inside looks decent.And actually tastes all right. I intentionally excluded the golden syrup and replaced brown sugar with raw sugar, so that it's not really sweet which I cannot take. Also, there was raw sugar in the house which was recently bought, I can't see myself buying more sugar at this moment. Unfortunately, that omission made the cake less sweet. So I should either use brown sugar and no golden syrup, or vice versa.
Cool! At least I can bake a cake on my own. But must remember to try and use the right utensils and the right ingredients or as close as possible.
More mini projects to come hehehehe!
Cool! At least I can bake a cake on my own. But must remember to try and use the right utensils and the right ingredients or as close as possible.
More mini projects to come hehehehe!
2 comments:
good try... hahahah
next time use a wooden spoon instead of a wire whisk. and try not to mix too hard. and yes, if the recipe calls for powdered cocoa, just use powdered cocoa... its liquid/dry ingredients ratio would be off if you substitute it with a liquid instead. oh and the sift, use a spoon to stir and it would helped to sifted faster. hope it sorta helps... good luck in the next attempt :)
LOL! Thanks Jo - I can count on you for tips ;)
Yeah I actually stirred the flour in the strainer/sift. But after awhile I just hit the sides of it buahaha!
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