I wanted to try cup cake ......My goal of reducing weight stopped me from baking. My husband's birthday is nearing and I wanted to make something special for him. Thought of testing the cup cake recepie which I had written in a paper long back. I don't remember from where I got the recepie. It was for 14 to 16 cup cakes.Often I was not sucessfull in baking, I have wasted a lot.So decided to make half of it. I reduced all the ingredients to half so that I will get 6-8 cup cakes.
Yesterday afternoon I thought of doing my experiment.I measured all the ingredients to half the quantity.... and followed the recepies.The recpie was with all purpose flour, but I used cake mix instead of it.Finally, when I mixed everything, my intution was saying me that the batter is too thin for the cake.Now, I thought this cake is not going to turn into a cake :(
I thought why not to add more of the cake mixture to make the batter thick.I did add the remaining half of the cake mixture that was said for 16 cup cakes. The batter was thick but still I wanted it to be more thick, again I dusted some cake mixture.
Now it was upto my expectation.I added some raisins which the recpie didn't mention. Now its ready to pour into the beautiful papercup, that was lying down in my kitchen drawer for a long time.I was attracted by the prints on the papercup while shopping and grabbed it immediately.The time has come for its use.....
Filled the papercup with two-third of the batter.While the cup cake was baking, I kept my finger crossed that it should turn out well. I did the tooth pick test to check whether it was done? It didn't stick so its cooked .The cupcake looked edible.
At last the result of my experiment came when I tasted.
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Oh ! I passed in cupcake test!!!!!!!!!!!! The taste was amazing! Didn't have the patience to do the icing.
Previously I had tried several cakes, a few turned out well and many were not cake at all.My husband the guiena pig with whom I do all my experiments, told not to try any more cakes but I kept trying.So finally, I learnt that baking also doesn't need exact measurement.
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Great work SV......for a really good cupcake/muffin book follow this link http://www.amazon.co.uk/500-Muffins-Cupcakes-Fergal-Connolly/dp/1845430956/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1312454178&sr=8-2
ReplyDeleteIt's the book I use and it's great! Happy baking.
Thank you very much DD for the link!
ReplyDeleteThe cup cakes look delicious. Good you din't give up and kept experimenting.I now a days bake only egg less cake as I can't stand the smell of egg, and the cleaning up after that, I feel the smell is never gone. I found this very good site which has egg less recipes for cakes and she also never uses condensed milk. Her cakes are all healthy and made out of whole wheat flour.
ReplyDeleteI do prefer to make eggless cakes for the same reason.That may be the reason that my cakes are not turning out good.I use oil and milk instead of egg.Btw which is that healthy eggless cake site?
ReplyDeleteIt is Lite Bite by sanjeeta kk, you can google it and find the site. It really comes out very well and looks very nice and also tastes good. I have tried many cakes following her recipe.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Rama!
ReplyDeletecupcake looks so yum,nd the liner is preety too
ReplyDeleteoh wow!! those cup cakes look super yummm!!
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