Sunday, February 14, 2010

THE BAKING OF CUPCAKES


Today was a fun day for me.I went to my Aunt's place. My cousin and I decided to bake chocolate frosted cupcakes.Well first of all,we gathered all the ingredients.Then started the real work.My cousin grinded the sugar first.Then she added butter in it and asked me to add two eggs in it.She also told me that i am an expert in cracking the eggs,lol.Anyways then I mixed all purpose flour,baking powder and baking soda.When i was putting flour in the bowl,my cousin told me that this jar is jammed so there was another small opening of the jar from where i started putting it in the bowl and then all of a sudden,the jammed lid of the jar was loosened *MAGIC* and all the flour was on the shelf,hehehehehehe,then we made a cone of the paper on which we had written the recipe and put the flour back into the jar.We kept on beating the batter for like 20 minutes.At first,it was a clear nice liquid but when i put the flour mixture and cream in it,it became very dry and weird,lol.Then we added milk in it to thin the mixture.We were also supposed to add chocolate in it.My mom instructed my cousin to melt the chocolate in the microwave oven and that was a disaster.Some portion of the chocolate got stuck to the plate and was burned along with the plate.Anyways i put rest of the chocolate in the batter.Then my cousin asked my uncle to switch on the oven.Okay so now this is a thing which i am really scared of.I cannot burn an oven on my own.I am scared for no particular reason.May be that thumping sound scares me a little bit.Anyways then we put the batter into the baking pans and put them in the ovens.We both were kinda worried regarding the sweetness of the cupcakes but thankGod it all went well.Our grandmother liked them the most and told us that we are experts in baking ;).Our brother pointed about the sugar thing though but we tried to ignore that
That is how i celebrated my Valentine's day,baking with my cousin but it was real fun and we had a great time together =)

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