Tuesday, June 06, 2006

When things go wrong
as they sometimes will,
When the road you're
trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low
and the debts are high,
And you want to smile,
but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing
you down a bit,
Rest, if you must
But don't you quit.

Success is failure
turned inside out,
The silver tint of
the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell
how close you are,
It may be near
when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight
when you're hardest hit -
It's when things go wrong
that you musn't quit.


That kind of sums up our attitude to our whole baking experience. (And it's here also for Maryann's viewing pleasure!)

We sure had much fun trying to bake. Notice I said "trying". Because we didn't exactly get down to baking it, thanks to my oven, which chose a most unfortunate time to short-circuit itself therefore leaving us stranded with 2 batches of muffin mix but no oven to bake them.

Nevertheless, we had tons of fun; I've got the photos to prove it! The whole mixing process went surprisingly well. It wasn't until we were happily dropping blueberries into the flour that we realised that the first batch of apple & spice muffins were taking too long to bake. That led to a most frantic half hour where we tried to locate the root of our problem.

Yea. The oven blew. -__-" After much calming of frazzled nerves, it was time to try out yiiwen's brainwave:- STEAMED MUFFINS.
Hey, it worked. Although we had to gouge the muffin mix out of the muffin tin into a cake tin. And it was hilarious to see the muffin mix sitting in a cake tin in a steamer!
The products of our combined creative efforts looked so cute fresh out of the pan on the chopping board.

The verdict: Theres a reason why you BAKE muffins and not steam them. They come out with this shiney crust-like thing and very little flavour, despite smelling good. Oh, and looking alot like bread. Next time we shall put more sugar and apples and use butter instead of olive oil. Hm...

Photos up next. Drumroll please.

Glamour shot! Guess who took it?


Hard at work measuring and mixing.


That's how muffins are supposed to be cooked. In a tray in the oven. Nice and neat.


That's what you do when the oven doesn't work. Stick it (the mix) in a steamer! That's called CREATIVITY!


Don't you think this looks cute balancing upside down? This picture alone is worth all the hassle of steaming and steaming. (:


Presenting... The Apple and Spice Muffin Cake! (with a little help from the cam's self-timer and my microwave oven)


Blueberry muffin cake all chopped and ready to be served.

Theres always a first time for everything and well, I guess baking didn't agree with my oven. But baking's so unpredictable that you have to try over and over again to get the products just the way you want them.

What's life without its funny moments? Meanwhile, this cookie eater's looking forward to our next bake day, and hopes to see full attendance (looks pointedly at lyd) as well as yummy goodies that turn out right! (:

x one of us ate a cookie*

x midnight cookies x