Wednesday, June 11, 2003

baking failure 101

i want to be martha stewart or rachel ray. the problem is that everything i touch turns to mush. baking is a great love of mine. i loved to watch my mother bake deserts in the oven. however, i often ran out as soon as she would start because i knew i'd be doing a lot of dishes. sweet things are a really big love for me. watching cooking shows about baking deserts make me melt for some reason. i'm totally captivated. i love the delicacy and detail that goes into the work. it's like eating a piece of art.

so anyhow, i saw this recipe on the food network today that was supposed to be relatively easy since it used yellow cake mix. it was an apple cake. basically all you do is do the yellow cake mix and pour it into a pan. then you cut up one apple into small pieces, sprinkle sugar and cinnamon all over them, and then place them on top of the mix. you bake the sucker for about 30-35 minutes then let it cool. cut a piece out and serve vanilla ice cream on top and you have melted heaven on a plate.

now, here's the problem. i don't know if it's my oven or just me but i have a severe problem with either burning my baked goods or undercooking them. i took the cake out of the oven and it was golden brown all around. i stuck two toothpicks in the middle and they both came out clean. later, i noticed, cake batter was starting to exude out of the top of the cake. that's when i realized the center of the cake wasn't cooked through! argh! i was able to save the side pieces of the cake but am once again annoyed at my failed baking attempt. next time, i'm going to use a fork to test the cake instead of a toothpick.

tomorrow, i'm going to make an attempt at one of rachel ray's 30 minute meals which includes a chicken tender salad with home made dressing. mmmm.. of course, something tells me that we might be ordering out if things go as usual. :)

on martha's kitchen tomorrow, she's doing a show on deserts. yeah!!!

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