Experimental Baking Take 4


 

 OK - trying this another time with some of the baking info I gleaned this morning looking at how different recipes are constructed.  Cooking is really just chemistry with easily obtainable ingredients and a stove....

the result was a little chewy on the outside, maybe one less egg white is in order?, but a good sweet but not too sweet inside of the cake that complemented cherry jelly nicely.

1 cup flour

1/2 cup granulated white sugar

1.5 tsp cream of tartar

1/2 tsp salt

(mixed the cream of tartar and salt together well, then sifted it through the flour, then added the sugar and stirred it all up)


melted 1/2 stick butter and separated into six Jumbo muffin pan wells

started the oven heating to 400 degrees

separated 4 eggs from our very productive chickens, and beat the whites together

added 1 tsp vanilla extract

added 1/2 cup milk

beat that just a little to mix

 put the pan with the butter in it in the oven to heat up

added it all at once to the dry materials and beat that until it smoothed out

heard the butter bubbling, and removed pan carefully to top of stove

separated out the batter into the six wells, returned to oven

reduced heat to 325 degrees

plan to let it bake for 30 to 40 minutes



goals : 

Not too Fancy, whips up quickly out of on-hand ingredients - check

Pops out of Container Well - check

Tastes good but not too sweet - check

Crust is soft and easy to cut but sets up nicely - needs work

Keeps well in fridge for second use - probably not with that crust

good thing I'm writing this down here as somehow my tablet got wet and the page from yesterday ended up all smeared  Also the dogs really like it when I bake :) they got the egg yolks.



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