Adventures in Baking
Well so much for my golf swing. Since that awesome day last Tuesday, I haven't been able to hit a single ball well, I totally lost the golfing mojo that I had that day. I am hoping that revelation #4 comes to me soon to put me back on track.
In addition to my new golf hobby, I've also become hooked on baking. I guess it all started at the picnic for my basketball team, I decided to bake cup cakes which all disappeared by the end of the day. It was a very gratifying feeling and thought to myself maybe there is something to this baking thing. So I resolved to bake one new recipe per week (which should help out my resolution to try a new recipe per week, which wasn't doing too well) and so far I've gone four weeks in a row and am enjoying it more and more. I bring whatever I bake to work the next day (so I don't end up eating everything by myself) and they never fail to disappear.
So the story of my first baking attempt is pretty funny. I was trying to bake shortbread cookies but I realized I was out of butter, but it was 10pm at night and the local grocery store was closed and I didn't feel like driving far to go to a 24 hour one, so I went to the local convenience store. They had butter, but the only butter they had was salted butter, and the recipe called for unsalted butter, but I figured how much of a difference could it make? So I used the salted butter, and when I tried my first cookie, it was the saltiest cookie on the face of earth! It was like someone dumped a whole shaker full of salt on my cookie. Blech! I tried to finish it but I couldn't, so I dumped the whole batch. Baking lesson #1: never use salted butter!
The good batch
Tangerine cupcakes, my favourite recipe so far
In addition to my new golf hobby, I've also become hooked on baking. I guess it all started at the picnic for my basketball team, I decided to bake cup cakes which all disappeared by the end of the day. It was a very gratifying feeling and thought to myself maybe there is something to this baking thing. So I resolved to bake one new recipe per week (which should help out my resolution to try a new recipe per week, which wasn't doing too well) and so far I've gone four weeks in a row and am enjoying it more and more. I bring whatever I bake to work the next day (so I don't end up eating everything by myself) and they never fail to disappear.
So the story of my first baking attempt is pretty funny. I was trying to bake shortbread cookies but I realized I was out of butter, but it was 10pm at night and the local grocery store was closed and I didn't feel like driving far to go to a 24 hour one, so I went to the local convenience store. They had butter, but the only butter they had was salted butter, and the recipe called for unsalted butter, but I figured how much of a difference could it make? So I used the salted butter, and when I tried my first cookie, it was the saltiest cookie on the face of earth! It was like someone dumped a whole shaker full of salt on my cookie. Blech! I tried to finish it but I couldn't, so I dumped the whole batch. Baking lesson #1: never use salted butter!
The good batch
Tangerine cupcakes, my favourite recipe so far
posted by Chris at
9:24 p.m.
3 Comments:
that salted butter rule goes for ALL cooking. doesnt matter what you're making, but *always* use unsalted butter even if the recipe should call for salted butter. you always want to be able to control the seasoning
you can always add, but never take away
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chinwhat, at 8:02 a.m.
I tried one of these cupcakes, and it was good! My favourite baking ingredients are blueberries and chocolate (but not together :S).
Let's have an Iron Chef:TeamID bake-off!
By
Lil Lex, at 6:18 a.m.
Yummy!
Can you bake a batch for Kelso?
By
Rubex Cube, at 4:04 p.m.
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