Okay, so several unfortunate occurrences took place this weekend.
My uncle and grandparents came up from New Jersey so my mom decided to throw a party, and I was like... oh cool! I can make the sticky buns. And so I did. So while they were rising, my friends called me up and were like... "hey, let's go clubbing" so I did. I told my mom how and when to bake the buns and all was well until i got home. They left me the smallest buns in the batch and like... only three of them at that.
So I had to take a picture of the three most miserable looking buns in the batch and after snapping several miserable looking pictures of three miserable looking buns, I ate them. Then going through my camera, I realized that my brother had played with my camera and made the setting super dark. So my pictures came out dark and gloomy looking. The flash made everything too bright and so all in all, pictures were pretty miserable. Fortunately, I still have half a batch of dough left since I made the full batch of brioche dough. I'll post my miserable looking photos of my 3 miserable buns today and update with happier photos either by the end of the day, or by tomorrow (hopefully).

Now, some feedback on the process of the bun making. It turned out pretty well actually. My dough didn't seem to rise as well as I wanted or expected it to, but it tasted pretty good. I thought that the three sticks of butter in the brioche dough was a little ridiculous (especially for someone watching her weight {moi} so I took out one stick. It probably made it less tasty or moist than it should have been, but I found three sticks a little scary. I should have substituted it for something else to help keep the dough more moist.
Other than that, I felt as if it was pretty much just a normal cinnamon bun. I've had better, but maybe that's cause I left out one stick of butter? =\ My fault probably. I'll do it over

I'm really excited for the TWD challenge this week. I wasn't able to do last weeks due to tests and other baking frenzies. I didn't have the appropriate pan either, but this week's challenge will definitely be done.

I decided to take the Daring Baker challenge from a while ago. I'm not yet a daring baker, but starting next month I will be. I'm really excited.
Anyhow, After I saw pictures of this cake, I've been itching to make it. Finally, I couldn't stand it anymore and woke up at 1:00 am to do it.

The preparation isn't difficult, but like always, I fail to follow recipe for the cake part. Everytime, I'm always doubting the recipe and end up changing it. That's not good.... cause I'm usually wrong. Anyhow, the cake inside took me two tries to get decently right. I realized that if I'm going to rely on air to make my cakes rise, I need to bake them immediately after I've whipped the batter. I had technical difficulties with my springform cake pan.... It didn't occur to me that it would leak... -_-.... so I had to take the leaking pan out of the oven, and left the batter there for like.. half an hour. When I baked it, the air was almost gone and the cake had this gross unrisen flour-egg texture.

I've learned my lesson. Other than the cake, everything turned out upretty well. I'm pleased with the results. It's not my cake of choice for eating, but it's a nice and pretty piece I can show off.
I'm sort of new to this entire baking thing so I'll be making a lot of blunders, but stick with me. I'll get better. =D

Well, here's to my first post.
We had an orchestra party yesterday and I thought, hey, might as well have some fun baking. When I bake something, it always has to be for someone else otherwise I end up eating it all and gaining 20 pounds.

So I made a nice fruit tart.
It was my first time making a fruit tart and I totally forgot that I ran out of fresh fruit so I used frozen raspberries and and frozen blueberries instead. The kiwis are fresh.

The crust was absolutely stunning. Flaky, tender, and perfectly flavored. I love the taste of the salty crust (just right)--sweet cream--fresh fruit combination. It's delicious.

The tart was gone within minutes with people going back for seconds and thirds.

My cake turned out pretty well too. A pumpkin spice cake with butterscotch mousse and butterscotch, brown sugar icing. I was really satisfied. That disappeared too. I have to work on the aesthetics a bit, but I'll improve.