I'm not a good baker. Most of the time, my stuff comes out overbaked or too liquidy. Once I attempted to make chocolate chip cookies. It turned out like this:
"Continent" is the name my mom gave the form of my cookies.
This time, I decided to attempt chocolate cupcakes for the millionth time. I'm a freestyler in life, whether it is dance or cooking, I can't stick to a formula. Following a recipe should be easy right? Everything is written: do this, put that, and it's precise too! But eyeballing measurements is my specialty. Most of the time I add too much of one ingredient so I add a bit more of another to compensate.
"That looks about right," I tell myself.
Most of the time, I'm also lacking in ingredients. I needed vanilla extract but had none. I had vanilla sugar though. Should I add it in?
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| So I put a quarter of the bag in. |
Next on the list of ingredients were: - baking powder and baking soda. But isn't 
I learnt in Chemistry at some point that Baking Soda + Salt is the same thing as Baking Powder. So I added more baking soda and more salt than required to compensate for the lack of baking powder.
(I just looked it up and in fact, they are used very differently but have the same effects.
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/foodchemistry/f/blbaking.htm -> If you want to know more on your own)
But then, while looking for the vanilla, I found:
So I added a bit of that too. Just in case the baking soda and salt don't work.
Finally, I threw everything into the Magic Oven (because sometimes I get miracles and sometimes I get food for diamond teeth)
In case you were wondering, it turned out quite well:
  My Godzilla mom enjoying my cupcakes. |
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