My Baking Cookies Attempt

Decided to gif baking another go! SHall bake cookies this time round! Much easier! At least i noe it wun sink!!


Took this recipe from 1 of mum's cook book!! Decided to bake Mocha Chunk Cookies! EH! no coffee liquer so i omitted the coffee part of this recipe! Solely chocolate cookie! Had to search google for some conversion measures though. I shall put it here!

Conversion measures:
Butter: 1 cup = 200 grams
Brown Sugar / white sugar: 1 cup = 200grams
Flour: 1 cup = 100 grams
1 oz = ard 23 grams i think


Getting started! Preparing and Measuring ingredients sure takes a long time


Mixing the plain flour with the cocoa powder! Plus salt and baking soda!


My poor hand~ From coasely chopping the chocolate bar!!!


"WUn it be nice if the world was cadbury?" My chocolate chunks! Suppose to be semi-sweet chocolate. Trade off by putting less chocolate~ :)


Mixing the brown and white sugar evenly before adding the softened butter. As usual, mix butter and sugar to get a grainy paste! Suppose to use machine and mix at meduim speed. haha!I was the machine!! Inconsistent speed!


Adding egg into the grainy paste. Mix until smooth! Yes! Another muscle building session!!! And i am so not sure how smooth is the smooth stated on the book! Took breaks inbetween! hehe! Tiring! The mixure in the pic looks smooth enuff already hor?


Folding in the flour and chocolate chunks! Must make sure to fix evenly and oso take care not to overmix! this 1 takes experience i tell u!! Which i sadly dun have! haha!


Look at all the mosquitoe bites i gotte behind my knees!!! Stopid mosquitoes took the chance to attack me while i was busy trying to achieve the smooth texture!! No wonder my legs felt so itchy when i was folding in the flour!!! Damn you mosquitoes~


Dropped rounded spoonfuls of the final mixture into the baking sheet! Big mistakes! Seen how big the cookies gotten to be?! And i was suppose to have 2 dozens of cookies. I could only have achieved 16 if i have continued with my generous protions.


SO i went to reduce the portions of the cookies mixture in the second tray. Ended up looking like a big mess!!!


The most irritating part of baking: the washing up!!!! Fortunately, baking cookies mess is much less than that of baking cake! Less to wash!


The left pic shows the 1st batch with the 2nd batch on the cooling rack while the right pic shows the 2nd and the 3rd. The second batch is easily seen as the most sane coloured 1. The 3rd looks chao tah! Threw like haf of the 3rd away! The first batch was big cookies so i left them in the oven longer, incase not cooked. Looks black black too!! :'(


Trying out the first batch cookies! Its really yummy!!! Fortunately! Finally successful!!! Was really happy~~ haha! It isnt soft cookie kind. its hard like famous amos! hehe! abit lack of choc chunk though. hee!

Verdict: Shld attempt to bake more! And good job mandy!! hehe~

My failure in baking Cake! SObs

Came home after dinner and decided that i shld bake a cake tonite! Friday nite is usually quiet and lonely for me. Mum goes for exercise, Dad goes for coffee session and sis goes dating so little manman has whole house to herself! So tonite with all the time at hand, cake baking shld take place! Followed a recipe from 1 of mum's numerous cookbooks! I chose to bake 1 marbled ring cake!

Here goes:


Getting ready all the items to start my baking!!
Quite alot of stuffs to prepare!!!


Seperating the whites from the yolks! First time i actually did it!
Watching tv is good! noe how to do it easily!!


Mixing the hard butter and sugar to get the creamy mixture
as stated in the recipe. Hard work i tell u!


FOlding in sifted flour into the creamy mixture



Hard work i tell u!!!
To mix the egg white to become a stiff mixture like this!!
Being housewife can is like working out in a gym i tell u!
I predict my right arm will ache tomolo!


to make the cake marbled.
Alternately put in the cocoa added mixture and the plain mixture.


The huge mess i created! I have to clear all this up!!!
SObbies!!


Cake mixture was left to bake in the oven.
Cracks starts to appear!

Guess wat i get after all this effort!!!
A really hard cake that seems to still b uncooked inside!!!The cake was super dense!!!

Cracked cake!!


Its ugly bottom when i turn it round to cool it!

Mum asked me to throw it away! asked me dun ruin my tummy over it! She sae its ok if i fail...i shld not b disheartened but instead try to see where i gone wrong and try again! SHe tell me cooking is not an easy affair! She told me i shld have attempted something much much easier! Not 1 with the yolks and white seperated! i reckon i took too much time, then the mixture got kinda melted by the time i actually baked it. To look on the bright side, at least it looked and smelt like a cake! She was pretty impressed by this fact already! I m sad! i shld have done cookies! LAst time i bake the cake for dear, it taste sane wat! but if i not wrong, it seemed a bit uncooked too! haha! chamz!! how to open my cafe next time!! i will attempt again! I am determined to b a good cook!!! or at least a good baker and dear will b his good cook! then we join forces!! hoho!!!