Mummy decided there's never going to be a 'perfect' time for baking; there's never going to be a weekday where I'll reach home early enough/have nothing to mark and there's never going to be a weekend where we don't have to ferry the kiddos to and fro enrichment classes and attend to them! Decided, I'll bake when I feel like it!
Reached home close to 6pm yesterday and I decided to have my first try at baking cupcakes from scratch (instead of using cake mix). My only baking experience was back in Sec 2, when I took Home Economics classes! Tried hard to tap into my prior knowledge bank and recall the teeny winy bits that I could remember of those lessons (taken 19 years ago!)
A simple task that would usually take a non-novice some 30min took me some 2 hours! Boy, I even had great difficulty fixing up my mixer (Hee...)
All throughout the baking session, I was texting my ex-pupil (yes, u heard me right. This is a teacher, an adult, asking a teenager for guidance)!
It was close to 9pm by the time the cupcakes had cooled down enough and were ready for decoration.
Adri had great fun decorating the cupcakes; she didn't want to end the day til she had decorated every single of the 8 cuppies. Mummy had fun bonding with Adri; something we were doing for the first time! :) Ashlynn had a go at decorating the cuppies too, however, she only decorated one, her very own. It was quite messy when Ashlynn was at work (see pic with two cuppies on a plate. Could you guess who decorated each?)
The vanilla cupcakes tasted nice, though a tad sweet (Mummy had already reduced the amount of sugar added but guess the reduction wasn't substantial enough). Given that they were painstakingly decorated by Adri, no one could 'resist' them!
What next? Mummy is probably going to get Adri to help whip up a cheese cake. I would love to have a go at baking egg tarts too!
Til the next time I 'feel' like baking again... :)
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