Melting Moments

It is also called German Butter Cookies. I baked it for the kids' piano teacher. 

My Little N, while helping me making the little balls of melting moments said, "Ma, why do we rarely bake cookies?"

"Errrmmmm..because you and your brother do not like cookies that much?"

"Oh yes, that's why!"

 

I just love baking more than eating. No, not really! I equally love baking and eating!

Brownie Points

Crusty Top



Sinful





So, the story went like this, the kids' catechism class ended the year with party, and parents were welcomed to contribute some food. I decided to do brownies,

So I did two different brownies recipes. The first one, for little N's class, was the one from Alice Medrich. You google it, and you will find it. I even doubled the recipe as there were 23 kids in her class. When the cake was baked, I was disappointed with the lack of the crusty top. I did not know what went wrong in the process.

The second one, for Big N's class, was the one that I always did for the kids. The recipe was taken from detikfood. Halfway in the oven, I could see that the top was already crinkled with the paper think crust. It really made my day.


To sum it up, I had the simple chart where I listed down the points that I took on the brownies. Considering that I am about to catch the bus and meet my husband, I have to end my writing here.
But, it was a sweet adventure of baking after months of hiatus.

	Alice Medrich	Detikfood
Top	does not crust	paper thin crust
Texture	fudgy	cakey
Leavening Agent	No	Yes
Taste	Chocolatey	Chocolatey

Sky High

Sky High 

Sometimes, in life we take short cuts and we have to live by its consequences. And this was one good example of it. I did not bother to recalculate the recipe based on the measurement of pans that I had, and I ended up with a cake that was sky high.

In the Utopia, I shall live in a big house with a huge kitchen that will house my industrial size oven, my countless pans and cooking/baking utensils. But, in the tiny kitchen that I have, my cakes and I live by the rules set by the number of pans of that I have. That requires scientific mathematical calculation of halfing/quartering/two-thirding the recipes. It's easy when the recipe is in metric. But not when the measurement is in cups! Or when I was just not in the mood to do the calculation.

Vanilla Layer Cake

But when the result unexpectedly gave me the sky high cake like this, I should never blame myself again.