The CupCake Experiment PART 1B
After yesterday's failed first effort, I gave the recipe for Plain Vanilla CupCakes another try.

Things I changed:

I used real butter instead of margarine

I used less egg

I used kitchenscales to weigh the ingredients

I whisked longer and got fluffier batter

I changed the temperature from 175C to 200C

Look at my funky new kitchen scales! Mechanical, not electrical. *loves*


After ten minutes in the oven, they looked like they would grow into actual cupcakes...


... but once again I ended up making a mess. Although...


... the three in the back turned out to be not bad at all!

After cooling, only two still looked like cupcakes. The other four all had a soggy center. Next time I will:

Mix the bakingpowder with the flour before mixing in the other ingredients

Not put as much batter in the front cups and maybe put the whole batch as far to the back of my oven as possible

All other suggestions are welcome! I will try another recipe next weekend:)

The CupCake Experiment PART 1
Sinterklaas gave me a book with CupCake recipes. I've never baked before, but plan to try one of these every week. Here's my first effort...

Plain Vanilla CupCakes

THE BOOK


THE INGREDIENTS

The recipe is for 18 cupcakes, but my oven only fits 6, so I had to divide everything by three. Not easy with 4 eggs...


I didn't have a scale, so I used a measuringbowl. Whisk away! As it turns out my handmixer couldn't handle it, so I ended up using a fork.


Dough is supposed to be 'pale and fluffy'. It's yellow and sticky. Maybe because of the margarine instead of butter? Or too much egg after all. Hmmm.


It seems I at least got the right amount. I'm guessing it will rise a bit.


After twenty minutes in the oven they don't look like the photo in the book; they are soggy and pale, so I decide to leave them in for another ten minutes...


Huh. They don't look bad in these pictures, but as you can see they shrunk after a while and the centers were not baked.
I'm going to buy real butter tomorrow and try again on a higher temperature; I suspect the plastic cups need more heat than paper ones.

Hopefully then they all look like this:

One out of six is not a bad result for a first try, is it?
I'm saving this one for inspiration. I ate the other five. WITH A SPOON. Ahem.