The underlying premise to my pride and self-esteem is this simple fact: I baked this morning! *audience groans emphatically*
Today's menu consisted of my very own birthday cake... Hence I reminded myself that extra caution was needed. I whipped out two mixing bowls and proceeded thusly:
In bowl #1:
1. 2 Cups of flower (either white or whole-wheat... need I say that I used white. :)
2. 1 Teaspoon of cinnamon
3. 1 Teaspoon of powdered cloves
4. 1/2 Teaspoon of allspice
5. 1/2 Teaspoon of salt
6. 1 Teaspoon of baking soda
7. 2 Teaspoons of baking powder (never did really see a difference between baking soda and baking powder, but whatever...)
In bowl #2:
1. 2 Eggs
Beat in gradually:
2. 1 Cup sugar (again, healthy or white sugar are both possible... I naturally used white.)
3. 2 Teaspoons of molasses (whoops! no molasses to be found for the life of me! what to do? too late to turn back, must continue without molasses) :(
4. 1 Cup of sour milk (why sour milk for crying out loud?)
Now, with expert skill, I might add, I gracefully poured one bowl into the other, and mixed them together. This gooey combination was then dumped into the awaiting pan.
It was now, after I was this far into it, that mom walked in and began reading off the ingredients to make sure I had gotten everything. We had almost gotten to the bottom of the list when it was discovered: "Allspice? ...yes... Salt?" Oh no. Suddenly a painful realization was thrust upon me: I had forgotten the salt.
What to do? What to do? "Can't I salt it now, mom?"..."Um, no, hunnybunchkins, if you salt it now, it might end up tasting like a lightly salted cake." Hmph. With weepy eyes, I continued only half-heartedly...
The next step was putting my unsalty mixture into the oven which had been preheated. During this step, I uncovered a very nasty equation: person + cake + 375deg(oven + HOT) = HOT(120deg + person) + cake... This simplifies to something like person(HOT)(119deg) which means, in essence, that I suddenly got hotter by 119 degrees upon opening the oven door.
Well, eventually it did come out and the result wasn't really as bad as I thought...
I still have to make the topping for it... But apparently that has to be done just a little bit before the thing is actually eaten, so I may just make it tomorrow.
Anyway, I had my last week of school this week... Yay! I'll still be doing stuff all summer, but not all of it, so that'll be nice. You all finished with school for the summer too?
Well, I'd better knock off here... Lots to do!
Love ya'll!
