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My First Attempt at Donuts! And Also a Type of Bread

These are not the first donuts to be constructed by this family, but they are the first donuts to be produced by me! I have never tried to make bread on my own before, mainly because it requires patience and kneading and I'd most likely overknead something. Oh gosh. Overknead isn't a word.

So I was browsing G+ and I came across a donut recipe that I linked for later. The day was rainy and dark, depressing and lazying me. My patience with a malfunctioning oven had diminished, and I HAD to make something. Donuts were a great choice in these hard times, since they only required use of the stove. However, our inventory lacked yeast, and good donuts required yeast. So while my sister was beating up punching bags, Daddy went to Wal-Mart to restock our inventory. He came back home with... GROCERIES!! But I didn't make the donuts right away, because I still felt lazy and it was too late, anyhow. So the next day, I browsed the Net for good donut recipes, and by 9am I'd found one and began to mix stuff up.

Mmkay, so the dough was easy to prepare despite a few things I did wrong, and it rose properly as well. Everyone became included once I rolled the dough out. Brother H cut out a star shaped donut, but it resulted as 'tiny' and 'lame' in his words, so that was the only star donut ever made in donut history. The majority of the donut shapes were the typical circle with a hole in the center, but then with the scrap dough, H wanted to make some blobs with air inside. After finally cutting all the donuts out, I let them rise for 19 minutes, and then Mum came along and told me the dough would need space if it was going to rise, so I had to transfer some donuts to another sheet and add 11 minutes to the timer. Later, H fried them, and put together a glaze made of confectioners' sugar, butter, and raspberries.

Why go to Dunkin' Donuts when you can make your own?
...because homemade donuts are terrible.

Special thanks to Mum, for her random assistance. H, for making blobs and a star and frying the donuts while also making a glaze that I didn't plan to do until they were all fried. S, for taking pictures. And Daddy, for eating the last piece.

Annnnd I may try these another time.

N

Elements

Have any of you been checking my life blog? Did you find out what happened to the oven?? I won't say what happened in this post, because I've already kindly inserted the link there for you, but in case you feel lazy, I'll give you a brief overview of the incident.

About two weeks ago, I tried to make my first chiffon cake for my Report Writing class. Nothing bad happened in the process of stirring the batter up, okay? However, after my shower, I checked on the oven and saw sparks running along the element. And I was like UMG. Fast forward - weturnedofftheovenandlefthtecakeinthereandbasically - okay, sorry. BASICALLY, the cake was dense because it hadn't been cooked properly because of the dang oven, and so a few days after, a maintenance guy came over to check the oven out. He took out the element. from then on, we haven't been able to use the oven. It leaves me bored every day because I LUV BAKING (I need an apron with those words on it XD) and not baking for nearly three weeks now is becoming unbearable. Anyway, I went off-tangent. I meant to say that I ended up NOT using that cake as a cover picture for my report, and I used a picture of a chiffon cake that my mum made about seven years ago (yeah, ikr). I cropped it out on Microsoft Paint and voila.

I crossed out my fab name there because y'all don't deserve to know who I am (most of you, anyway)

Yeah, it's pretty bad. But better than the other ones I've done..... *cringe* I would display them here, but the first one has moi on it and the second one has moi name on it. Additionally, I'm too lazy to get them out and cross my name out. ;3

Yeah, that's all I wanted to say... if the oven ain't fixed by next week, bruh, I'm gettin' outta here. And moving to baking school. [to teach ;)]

I also wanted to mention that when the oven is fixed, I will make a chiffon cake (alone this time) and paste my report here. Stay tuned! :) <3

N

Updates and Upcoming: Chiffon!!

Heeeyyy, look what happened! It's February!! Goodness.

So, sometime in January, I made a hot milk cake for a party we had at Quran class. I gave myself a bad burn that still hasn't healed completely (okay, maybe it has, but I can't tell yet if what's left is going to be a scar). I wish I could have taken a picture of it. All my friends were horrified by it. Well, one of them wasn't. I was just like, "Look at this!" and shoved my arm in her face. And she shoved HER arm in my face and showed me HER injury and was like, "Look at THIS!" Then she went crazy showing me all her scars. Lol. Anyway... oh yes. So, I didn't get to take a picture of that hot milk cake because my sister accidentally washed her phone while doing laundry. That was a huge P.I.T.Y. because that was one of the BEST hot milk cakes I've ever made!! However, Dad bought Sister a new phone by the Motorola company. And it takes really good pictures.

I've been wanting to make a Chiffon cake since I began my English Report Writing class. But since I've never made Chiffon cake before, I need my mom's aid and experience. Which I can't achieve during the weekdays from Sunday to Friday. The best time to bake, according to me, is in the morning. My mom comes home in the afternoon, around 4. Now, why do I want to make Chiffon? Because in my English class, I'm writing a report about the history and science of Chiffon cake. When polishing up our report near the end of class, we have to make a cover picture, and I want my cover to be of a Chiffon cake that I made. In the two previous times I've been in this Report Writing class, I've written about Malaysia's food and culture, and the characteristics of cats and a specific breed: the Abyssinian. (That was a fun report.) For the Malaysia report, I edited a picture my siblings and I in Gramps' front yard. It was pretty cringey. For the cat report, I put together an oil pastel painting of an Abyssinian cat. The lesson for class says we can take pictures from the Net, but I don't really like doing that. I like to customize everything. So that's why I have to work hard to make a Chiffon cake before this class ends. (Which will be February 9th.)

While researching for my report, I discovered that March 29th is National Lemon Chiffon Cake day!! You know now what I'm going to do here on that day!! >:D

That is all I wanted to say. Stay tuned!!

N