♥ my Journey ♥ my Life ♥ my Stories ♥: Sugar cookies and Chocolate cake.

Most of the time, I cooked. This is the first time that I baked. I have been wanting to bake long ago but there is no oven at home.

This time I baked Suagr cookies and helped along with WN Chocolate cake. I got the recipes online plus customize a bit. The cookies were well made and delicious. Only until when royal icing was added, it was too sweet. Seems like it was not a good option to add royal icing if you want to consume it. If it were to be sold, adding some royal icing would be nice.

As for the cake, it was well made the first time, look great and tast average. But until the final product, I think it was a great failure. Seems like more practice is needed. The recipe of the cake was also not very good because they said put all the ingredients into the mixing bowl and beat it for 2 minutes and proceed to bake. Short and sweet instruction and the result turned out was just average.

My house does not have an oven and so I had to borrow WN house and her oven. But her oven was not the best because the maximum temperature was unknown. We need 350F high temperature but there was no indication and so we had to roughly customize the time and need to check it every few minutes. It was a good thing that the oven door was transparent so that we could check the progress.
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Recipe for Sugar cookies:
1. Mix 2 1/2 cups of all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon of salt into a big bowl, sift it and set aside.
2. Sift 1 cup of confectioners' sugar. Normal sugar also can.
3. Mix 1/2 cup of salted butter, softened and sifted confectioners' sugar in mixer at medium speed or until the sugar have dissolved with the butter.
4. Beat in 2 eggs, one at a time, at low speed.
5. Add 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract. (I added 1 teaspoons of almond extract too, you can add other flavour extract.)
6. Add in the sifted flour and obtain a dough.
7. Cut the dough into smaller pieces, wrap with plastic and put into the refrigerator for 30 minutes to 90minutes.
8. Preheat oven to 350dcF.
9. Sprinkle the surface with flour to avoid sticking.
10. Roll out the dough and cut the cookies of the shape you like.
11. Bake for 10-12 minutes until the edge turns a little brownish.
12. Serve it or keep it in airtight container up to 1 week.

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First try of cookie baking.

Mixing the butter and confectioners' sugar. The texture and color looked very nice.

Well mixed. XD

Baking the first batch of cookies.

First batch of cookies well done, looked nice and tasted super nice.

Messy mess.

Decorated by me and WN.
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First try of cake baking.

Looked very nice except that WN digged some to eat, I tooked one piece to eat. It tasted nice.

Putting royal icing and failure on whipped cream on the cake.
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Trying out royal icing on Maria biscuits.