first attempt in making vanilla cupcakes.

March 2011.

I was learning to bake some cupcakes. I had never baked cupcakes, i decided to give it a try. I'm using the standard vanilla cupcake recipe.


Ingredients:

• 1 1/3 cup flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 stick unsalted butter (softened)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt (or a tiny pinch of it)
• 1 1/3 cup milk

How to make:

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F (170 degrees C)
2. Cream together butter and sugar
3. Add eggs and vanilla extract into the butter-sugar mixture. Mix well.
4. Add dry ingredients and combine well
5. Pour in baking cups and bake at 350 degrees F for 20 - 30 minutes

Don't be happy just yet. They may look pretty when they were in the oven. But i guees i got too excited that they might be successfully baked, so i opened the oven door for one too many times (crucial mistake!!). So here's how they looked ...

blah. they looked wrinkled. ugly!

Second mistake was,.. i forgot where i wrote the recipe for the icing. So i tried to memorized it and of course, it was way too sweet. I just mix 1 stick of butter and 2 cups of confectioners sugar into the bowl. Separate it into three bowls and give them cute colorings. They looked yum actually, only they will give you toothache immediately. Sowwy..

I was quite pissed with the result. So i decided to decorate the cupcakes so it would look as though as it's super delicious. LOL. My boyfriend helped me decorate the cupcakes. And what do you know... they look sweet anyways. And the most surprising thing was... i brought them to my Grandma's house for a lunch and everybody loved them. They said, "You just need to excercise more. This cupcake's a delish!". Pheww.. that was like a gentle pat on my shoulder.