Baking Is A Piece Of Cake

As a child, I have always watched my mother cook different dishes at home. I would know that there is an upcoming occasion since I could smell something yummy is cooking in our kitchen. She will always cook pasta, meat stews and also other local delicacies that will make us really excited simply because of the flavorful aroma that the air inside our home brings when she cooks.

I’ve always been curios how her dishes are made and I wanted to be able to cook something like that when I grow up. My grandmother would also cook the same dishes my mother makes but I think my mother’s cooking tastes better. Maybe because we got used to it and my grandmother’s way of cooking is very traditional as compared to my mom’s modern method with all the new kinds of ingredients. I thought to myself that I would like to cook something better to impress my mother and my grandmother when I am old enough.

As I was growing up, I’ve managed to get some tips and tricks from my mother when she cooks something. There aren’t any secret recipes or any secret herbs and spices that she uses. It’s all in the method how you cook it. Patience really pays off when you’re cooking a good meal because you can’t hurry it up when you want it to come out almost perfectly. That also applies so much more on baking. You can’t just mix your cake batter as much as you want because you will be pushing too much air into your cake batter and it will come out too flat or too fluffy. You can’t force your cookies to come out in the oven at once because you’re too impatient to taste how they are. All you can do it wait and make sure that you time the baking process according to the instructions.

Baking is so much different from cooking a meal. Once you cook your meals, you may add more spices to taste if it is a bit bland or you could just add more substances or more water if it tastes too strong. In baking, everything should be calculated and all the substance needs to be measured exactly as it’s indicated in the recipe. If you’re baking bread and you put in a lot of flour in it, it can either be too difficult to eat or too crumby to piece. If you put a bit too much water in the dough, it might turn out just like a soggy and tasteless cake. It is really difficult to experiment on baking unlike cooking.

Given the fact that baking is too complicated for me, I’ve really found my niche in baking since it gives me a diverse feeling of accomplishment when the pastry you have baked turns out very well and anyone appreciates it so much more. I have managed to master the art of baking cookies and brownies and I can certainly say that baking is so much easier than you thought if only you have the drive to go for the outcome that you want to attain.

I know that the outcome in your first attempts can be disappointing but if at first you get a flat, tasteless piece of bread, don’t worry because you are on the right track. The next thing you know, you are already making your way in the pastry industry and you’ll say that it’s just a piece of cake.

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