Back in India, baking at home is not all that common but when I came to the US, I realised almost everyone knows to bake. That really got me excited. If I could bake a cake it would be an awesome experience. So I took up the task with a lot of interest and research.
I didn't want to spend too much money on baking especially since I was just beginning. So I didn't have a cake mixer and decided to do it by hand. I had also bought the cheapest cupcake pan I could find at walmart. It had only 6 cups so I had to bake in two rounds. I found this really cool video which showed how to bake vanilla cupcakes. Everything on the video was pretty accurate including the timings and the measurements. So I just followed along and everything came out real smooth. You can check it out here.
Because I was doing it by hand, my hand did ache in between so I took slightly longer but in the end it worked out just fine. Initially I had decided to do the cake mixing with a whisk, but when I started doing the butter with the whisk, it just ended up getting caught in between the wires and made the process too messy. So I got out a wooden spoon and thats made it so much easier. In between, I used the spatula to scrape the sides.
When I finally put it in the oven, it was a moment of tension, worrying if my cupcakes would rise, whether they would get cooked right and a whole lot of things. But eventually they did work out perfect. I didn't frost the cupcakes because I wasn't prepared with the frosting ingredients.
You can see from the photographs that I used some designer cupcake liners. It gives me a lot of satisfaction and pride that my first baking experiment was a success.
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