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Where to begin? Word of mouth is truly the best advertisement. This week, was a very busy week for me. I had an order of 2 dozen minis for Thursday, after I dropped them off at my friends house (who braids from her home), she called me with two more orders for Friday. One of my co workers ordered 60 minis and 60 cookies (both pictured above) for his organizations picnic, and I had to bake 3 dozen regular cupcakes to sell at two local Masjids. Today I have two cakes, one heart and one flower.
I try to do my baking early to leave room for error. Even though I have orders I am still a beginner and I know from previous experience that the kitchen has a mind of its own. The two major setbacks that I experienced were my chocolate cupcake recipe and the cookie dough. I am trying to come up with my own chocolate cupcake recipe, I want it to be chocolaty but sweet. I don't want it to taste like coffee or to be serious, I want it to be playful and fun. Thursday evening after I had been baking for two days straight I went against my instinct of adding more chocolate to the batter and the cupcakes came out the same color as my carrot cupcakes. I was soo upset because all I wanted to do was lay down. If you know me then you know that I needed my naps, and this was my third day with out one, and it was around ten at night, the bed was soo close, but after those brown cupcakes came out I knew that I had to put my sleep off for another 45 minutes or so. After I sulked for a couple of minutes I sucked it up and followed my instincts and the cupcakes came out exactly how I wanted them to be. Lesson learned follow instincts!!
Even though my addiction is the cute cupcake, I make a delicious cookie too. I made the cookie dough Wednesday night so that it could freeze over night so all that I would have to do is bake them and they would be good to go. As I started baking I noticed that the cookies were coming out super thin. They were falling apart when I touched them (after they were cool of course). But me being the queen of denial, I baked them all, thinking that since they were smaller than usual the dough was acting funny. The next morning (delivery day), I was not loving these cookies so I began making another batch of cookie dough, and as I read the ingredients, I knew what went wrong, I added the same amount of brown sugar and white sugar, when the recipe called for a whole lot of brown sugar and a tad bit of white sugar. Fortunately the guy texted me saying that he needed a later later drop off so everything worked out great. Leson learned follow instrutions!!
When I am in the kitchen I try to move slow, and I try to do a maximum of two things at a time, because each recipe is different and as you can see if you don't pay attention the first time you will just have to do it over again.
Well I have to get these cakes together.
Until next time....