Friday, November 30, 2012

Baking

In the beginning of the year...no, I think it was towards the end of last year, I promised that I would try to get into baking... Ahhh, if I remember correctly, I said I was going to exercise regularly, do something nice for myself at least once or twice a month, and then learn how to bake.

I finally got myself into baking, yohoo! (Ok, I am not going to talk about regular exercise and doing something nice for myself, obviously, I have not been doing it or not really doing it as frequently as I want to, so let me just talk about baking, ok?)

It took me a while to finally start baking, hmmm, alright, I have only baked once, lol. But plans to bake are in the pipeline already. Had it not been for my hand mixer's misfortune of breaking down in the middle of my baking, I would have already baked more cakes and breads! It's true, but I am buying a new hand mixer, a simple one. I don't need a high-tech gadget as I won't be doing business with baking anyway, I will just be baking for the kids, for fun.

Here's the result of my first, and so far my only attempt at baking. It's a choco-banana cake that turned out so yummy coming from a first time baker like me!


See, that's my twin boys enjoying my cake, hehe. Baking my choco-banana cake was not a breeze though. First, my hand mixer gave up on me and second, the silicon baking pan that I bought was too big for my halogen oven I had to use a foil pan instead.

But generally, the result was worth the effort. I enjoyed the experience and as I said, I will be baking more cakes and breads in the coming days!

Happy baking!!!