Today I wanted to be creative, to do something other than stay all day in the computer and my mom asked whether we should go out for lunch, but since my sisters woke up late, she said that maybe I could make something sweet for a coffee-break.
I moved into my apartment and I discovered among my things a book about Christmas and there was this recipe called Mocha-espresso fudge that I wanted to try, so I thought that it would be a good idea to bake it today. I gathered up all the ingredients, followed the instructions step by step and waited for an hour to see the results.
When I went to check it, it was still kind of sticky, so I put it in my fridge for a while and left it a little bit longer and nothing happened. I told my mom that I was unlucky making the fudge so she suggested that maybe I could make individual cakes adding eggs, milk, flour and baking powder.
I sifted the flour with the baking powder and I set it aside. Then I beat the eggs and I added the fudge mixture, and then I started to add the flour, and when it got too hard to handle I just added a little bit of milk. Made the cakes and put them in the oven for about 35 minutes.
The result was good, considering that I kind of re-invented the recipe. Of course it wasn´t one of my best jobs but they tasted ok, though they stuck to their pan.
I really like baking sweets and I try to look once in a while for new recipes and like most of the time, this one didn´t turn up like it was supposed to be. But I still had fun, even adding the extra ingredients and making something new, different, never done by me before and I just wanted to share this experience because you never know what might happen when you do something for the first time.
Some times you´ll get lucky and you will get the outcome you expected, and on every few occassions it won´t. So instead of feeling discouraged and blame it on the recipe or on anybody, write it somewhere (because you´ll want to know what you did wrong so that you won´t make the same mistake again) or memorize it, and see what you can come up with. Sometimes it´s a new recipe or anything else you want, but never lose sight of your purpose because wherever it took you, it´s an experience that might be worth doing over and over and over again.
So I said goodnight sharing my baking experience with a very sweety ending: Mocha-espresso fudge mini-cakes (I came up with that name just know, so see if you can come up with a different one).
1 comment:
Actually, they turn out pretty yummy so keep doing it. Next time we´ll have a good expresso also!
good night to you.....
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