Baking Cupcakes

“Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.”

On any special day we always tend to bring cakes or pastries to make the celebration more special. And all thanks to the pastry chefs who make such tasty cakes and pastries. So for the next two days, including today, I decided to become a pastry chef. The reason behind my decision is that teacher’s day is coming close and to make the celebration a little bit special, I decided I would bake cupcakes for my teachers.

I have never done baking before and this will be my first time and I was really excited. It was a new task for me, a new challenge. I had a goal to complete. In total I had to make 43 cupcakes for all these teachers present in my school. Making 43 cupcakes is not an easy task and one needs skills to bake. I was completely unknown to all the skills needed in this activity. Firstly I planned what to do and when to do. I decided that today I would make at least 2 sets of cupcakes i.e. total 12 cupcakes. So first let me tell you all the thing needed for baking cupcake. Things needed:

·         Cake flour or all purpose flour.

·         Baking soda

·         Baking powder

·         Salt

·         Unsweetened cocoa powder

·         Unsalted butter, softened

·         Granulated sugar

·         Pure vanilla extract

·         Milk

For chocolate butter cream frosting:

·         Unsalted butter, softened

·         Unsweetened cocoa powder

·         Confectioners’ sugar, sifted

·         Milk 

 

The procedure is as follows:

   Fir take two separate bowls, one for dry ingredients and other for the wet ingredients. 

·         Take 3/4^th cup of flour and add it to the bowl.

3/4th cup of flour. 

·         Now add 1/4^th teaspoon of baking soda and 1 teaspoon of baking powder into the bowl.

1/4th teaspoon of baking soda.

1 teaspoon of baking powder. 

·         And add 3 table spoon of cocoa powder to the bowl n mix the ingredients.

Adding cocoa powder.

·         Now add 3 tablespoon of butter in the second bowl, which for wet ingredients and make it pomade.

·        Now add ½ cup of granulated sugar into the bowl and whisk it properly until it’s seems to be fluffy.

·         Add 1/4^th teaspoon of vanilla extract into the mixture in the second bowl.

·         Mix it well.

·         Now add ½ cup of sifted dry ingredients in the second bowl and add half cup of milk and mix the batter well.

·         Now add the rest of the dry ingredients and half of the other milk slowly and keep mixing it with the batter.

·         Adjust the thickness of the batter by adding 2 or 3 tablespoons of milk.

·         Now once the batter is ready, put it into the molds.

·         Put the mold inside the oven and set 180 degree Celsius for 20 to 25 minutes. 

After taking out the cupcakes, let it cool down for 10 mins and then take them out of molds. For decorating the cupcake and hiding some cracks, I used frosting. You can buy ready-made frosting from any bakery shop but I made the frosting on my own.

Baked cupcakes. 

It was my first time and I had to make so many cupcakes, but I was nervous thinking that will it be successful or not. Making the batter for first two times I failed. First time it was too runny and second time it was too thick. Then I took a deep breath and calmed myself down and started again. It was a new experience and I learned many baking skills like how to put the frosting on cake in patterns, how to mix the batter properly and how to put the batter properly in the mold. I had with myself while making cupcakes. Somewhere or the other I explored myself and tried something new. I thought I would never try baking and though that I would have no fun in this. It was like a fun challenge kept in front of me for trying it. I had planned and tried my best to keep the kitchen clean, but as it was my first time, it had to be messy. No wonder Next when I cook, it’ll be more and something new I guess. Till then have fun!