Baking

I'm not a person who easily gives up on something. Yesterday, I baked cupcakes, again with Grandma and lil chubby bro, Eric. Hehehe...

Ingredients:

(A)

• 250 g butter
• 130 g icing sugar
• 4 eggs grade-B (beaten)

(B)

• 280 g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp vanilla essence

Method:
1. Beat butter and sugar of ingredients (A) until smooth. Add eggs in a slow stream. Add in ingredient (B), combine until even.
2. Spoon into paper cups three-quarters of the way up, then fit into the tart moulds. Arrange on a baking tray. Bake in a preheated oven at 150 degree for 20-25 minutes. Cool on a wire rack

That is the given recipe. What I am to discover is far more than that.

-> The butter and sugar  must be beaten till almost white and fluffy.
-> It is advisable to beat the eggs with a fork, just like scramble eggs before adding into the mixture.
-> Eggs must be added little by little followed by beating.
-> Flour is added little by little.
-> When flour is added, mix it with just a spatula one way round and NOT two way round. Means if you're mixing by going clockwise, remain clockwise till the end.

This is how it suppose to look like before adding flour in

 

Ta-daaa .....

 

A job well done.

I realized that,

" Baking is not just about mixing the ingredients.

It takes the correct technique too to a successful baking ~ "

 

XOXO