I am probably the only member of my family who never cooked professionally ( or served in the military). However cooking seems to obssess me as I sure do like to eat the fancy stuff as well as the home cooking restaurant stuff. I have been fortunate that so many friends in my life could cook, yet I keep working away at attempts.
Nowadays it is harder and harder to do because standing brings a lot of pain to this old back and legs. Got a chair in the kitchen that was not designed for anything in it but the counters and appliances and also serves as the main entrance to the house ( pretty modest but not an apartment and I can still live alone).
My best friend and his wife invited me to their annual summer bash ( pot luck style). I had to come up with something. So I got this recipe from a CA friend and tried it out. 5 hours later I managed to come up with these miniature whoopee pies that are scrumdiddlyumptious. I think my friend came up with the same in an hour with her pre school grandchildren, but I am proud of the product anyway.
After a few failures I came up with this basic cake/ cooky. I split them in two carefully and filled them with butter cream frosting. Wow 3 cups of powdered sugar? I was looking for consistency of size and shape which the recipe I got didn't provide. It told me to drop a spoonful of the cake batter on a flat pan. It all spread and was too thin, and burned too easily. A little trip to duncanhines.com helped that. I used paper baking cups and made half cupcakes. I tried oto touch up the photo without much success. Just trust me they are beautiful and tasty as all get out.
Like little whoopee pies and only a two bite treat. At least I can show my face tomorrow.
2 comments:
I wish I could bake. When ever I try I, it never look like the picture :(
Way to go!! I'm proud of you!
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