The Fabulous Baker Boy

To spend my free time to the fullest, as my (HOLI) days are numbered, I decided to glue less to the computer and be more productive. Of course, I still took the time sleeping and watching the final season of Will & Grace (Thank you, Kekex, it's brilliant!) and now, FRIENDS season 10 (laughed till my stomach cramps). This explains my sporadic presence at the blogosphere these days.



I turned to doing something I've never really done before--- BAKING.

It started when my chef-to-be-friend agreed to baking a birthday cake for me. I helped and realized that cake-making is easier than I thought. It's like having sex. Then when I went to Australia and saw Counfusticated whipping out "orgasmic-inducing" brownies within an hour or two, I resolve to bake on my own in the future, and bake I did.

So I searched the Internet for a simple recipe and I found the low-fat banana bread. I followed the recipe and did everything on my own (despite my mom's discouragements like "Don't eat so much baked goods , they're full of sugar" and "Don't mess up my kichen.") . I even resorted to using a fruit juicer to blend the ingredients as I didn't have an electronic mixer that time, thanks to my sister who previously managed to overheat and break two mixers when she baked for fun, like me, after her SPM exams. Needless to say, the first attempt at baking for a blur guy like me is condemned to failure.

I thought I need to bake at 350 degrees but when I look at the oven, the maximum degree I can bake at is 250.



I opted for 250 anyway, not knowing that the "350" was in Farenheit and 250 celcius is for roasting meat. The bread was done within 15 mins instead of an hour.

The second time, after buying a RM37 (around 12 dollars) mixer from Carrefour, I made this banana bread again, which I overcooked. I got comments like "Did you put herbs inside?", "Put less coco powder" and "It's like eating burnt bananas".

Then I tried my hands on making shortbreads, which turned out to be another time-consuming fiasco. I spent the whole night making the shapes on the baking paper one by one, and baking them in my cheap oven, only to find most of them extremely delicate and fragile. Touch it and you'll break it.

But the rest of my attempts were rather succesful.

Low-fat banana bread




















Moist Banana bread with sour cream



















Apparently Sour Cream is pretty rare in Malaysia. They have to explain what it is.















One step closer to being a Fabulous Baker Boy!