Baking~

Nopes, didn't crash nor trashed the kitchen. Nor sent my family off to the hospital. <.<

In fact, I'm pretty satisfied with myself. XD I made a decent cake. Bwahahahaha! XD

Made from one of the recipe books from the small collection of cookbooks both my parents owned. I did ask dad once....

Me: How come you guys have all these cookbooks? It's not like we use them anyway. Well, at least you don't even cook, you only bake occasionally. Mum does the cooking, minus the books.
Dad : hmm....it's for mum to use. Or for you to use. haha XD
Me: =__=;

So there. >.>

But no, I don't cook, so I bake. LoL. Only if I managed to find a recipe which seems the easiest and one which has ingredients which I understand. =P

Come to think of it, the only baking I've done is about 2 cakes, this makes the third. Oh, and probably a few batches of cornflakes cookies for 2 Chinese New Years.

I'm not an expert. Really. Need I tell you more about my burnt toasted cookies? XD

My first cake was made for errr....dad's Birthday, last year or so and it turned out urghhhh....bad. The chocolate cake was HARD. O__O

As usual, dad, being the only fella who bakes in the house, scrutinized my rock solid cake and asked..

"How many eggs did you put in it?"
"Err...6? That's what the book says"
"That explains it. The egg whites harden the cake, you should have reduced it in half or something"
"........."
"Oh."

So yea....we didn't finish it, I can't really recall. haha XD

Fast forward to this year, sometime around June. It was mum and dad's anniversary. I was on semester break, so I came up with some complicated present, consisting of me cooking some western dinner for the family.

I don't cook. Period.

Perhaps, for my self and my bro, a simple lunch, but not a whole dinner by myself. Helping is so much easier and less harder to screw up >.>

Skipping the dinner fiasco part, consisting of the fish being in too small pieces (it shrunk while frying =P), my only consolation was the salad and cake...X__x The cake was meant to be errr....dessert?

'Lo and Behold~



I think it was Lemon Cream Cheesecake..or something similar.



Yea..I took a photograph to commemorate that the cake was edible. ohoho~ I'm dorky, yes.

And on Friday, I tried again. I was going after some other flavours, like orange or another chocolate....but...errr...I either couldn't understand some of the recipe nor the ingredients. >_<



Mah Lemon Pound Cake. ^O^



And dad has to be totally evil and critisize everything I've either baked or cooked <.< Like " You should have.......", " It should be....." or "It need..." -__- Definitely not motivating the slightest bit. haha XD Hence....err...why I usually do the whole thing before they figured out I did something.

Oh, and before I get my ego up for baking an edible cake...2 days after.....

Dad: Something tastes a bit off, I can't figure out what it is.....
Me: Hmmm? Whaddya mean?
Dad: What flour did you use?
Me: Er...the old one, I did get a new one, but there was some left....sooooooo
Dad: That's it, the flour. It's old.
Me: O__O Gakkkkkkkkk

Before you go wondering, why isn't my family down with diarrhea? I can't answer that because I have no idea. =P

Maybe it's because we have iron stomachs~~ >o<

No really, I meant it =P