BAKING CUPCAKES! | HOME ECONOMICS 🎂

Yesterday Chloe, Kayne, Jay and I made cupcakes in Home Economics.

The ingredients we used included:

• Caster sugar
• Flour
• Egg
• Butter
• Cocoa powder
• Baking soda
• Milk
• Cupcake liners, muffin pan

For the icing:

• Food colouring
• Caster sugar
• Butter
• Vanilla essence

I think we did well as we worked and baked. What worked well is that we were able to work quickly and the cupcakes baked perfectly. What didn't work is how long it took us to clean up and making the icing - we had to add more butter as there was too much caster sugar in there and the mixture was crumbly and dry. Our dishes were not washed properly but we could solve this by assigning a dish washer that can do dishes properly. 

This is what the cupcakes ended up like. For our batter we decided to add cocoa powder to make it chocolate flavoured instead of vanilla flavoured. 

We also decided to make our icing blue using blue food colouring.

Our cupcakes tasted nice however they were a little dry. We could improve this next time by adding more butter or wet ingredients. 

My favourite part of the process was mixing the wet and dry ingredients together to create the thick batter. My least favourite part was the icing, I was getting frustrated because the butter wasn't working.

When and where will you apply the knowledge you have gained from this experience?

I think we will apply this knowledge in the kitchen while baking or cooking in general. We learned a lot about measuring accurately and problem solving (adding butter when the mixture was too dry).