Sorry for the long gap in the posts guys! Cupcakes keeping us busy :)
We talked about all the nice things, let's now talk about all the not-so-nice things about baking! There was this one day when everything was going smooth. We head back from office. It was all hunky dory, our batter was ready, both chocolate and vanilla, we were super efficient. Like we usually do, we tasted the batter to see if anything was missing. And it just tasted grainy. We looked at each other and tasted more and more of that batter to check what was wrong, looked at the consistency and wondered if there was some ingredient that was not working: we put too much of it or too less of another. We then think maybe it's just us and put a tray of 9 vanilla of our regular cupcakes into the oven and wait with bated breath. Simultaneously we tasted the sugar, the salt, the vanilla essence, the milk, the baking powder even! We thought it was the eggs then. Suddenly we look at our freshly opened All-Purpose Flour pack and taste that and it seems non-(all purpose) flour-ish. It tasted funny and we zero in on our culprit. The oven says a "ting" and we go get the cakes out. We wait for them to cool down and eat one. The cakes tasted weird. We eat more of it to figure out what it exactly that flavor was, and voila! it's rice! We look at the flour again and looks like the store sold us a pack of rice flour instead of all-purpose flour and labelled it incorrectly! We had batter worth 40 cupcakes, eh.... rice cupcakes in this case, ready and we had to just throw all of it and start making a fresh batch! We opened a new pack of flour and started the process all over again! By the time we finished that night it was 1 am.
There's this another really harrowing story. We were expecting a friend of ours, Vasu, to come in and click pictures of our cupcakes. This particular day we had only chocolate to bake, so we put a batch in. We get the buttercream for the icing ready and wait for the cakes to bake and start the frosting. Except, when we poked a toothpick in the cakes to check if they were done, they start sinking and inside it was still un-cooked. This was unusual. We take the tray out and poke all cakes and they all sink. They are perfect examples of Domino's Choco Lava cakes and they taste heavenly too, but they are not cupcakes! We didnt know what we put (or didn't put) that caused it. We would have loved to have a recipe for a choco-lava cake but we just didn't know how we did it! Our friends helped finish that batch of choco-lava cakes, but we had to prepare fresh batter, because we certainly could not give coho-lava cakes instead of cupcakes :) So we get the dry ingredients in and open a new pack of eggs. We break one egg (fortunately not into the dry mixture) and it's spoilt, we open another, it's spoilt too. We opened 10 and each and every one of it was rotten! We looked at each other and almost cried. This was when we called Vasu and said 'we're really sorry Vasu, but looks like we can't do the photo-shoot today'. He was already on his way and we felt terrible about it. At 11:00pm at night, one of us call our moms and gets an old-school recipe and start with only 3 eggs :) When we put the tray in, both of us were covered with all kinds of sweet and not so sweet stuff.
Fortunately (and we thanks to mom! ) they came out perfect. We iced them and sat down after we prepared the boxes and opened a beer, looked at each other and laughed out aloud!
So when everything goes wrong, open a beer!
Cheers,
The Cupcake Shop
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