My debut recipe is a banana bread that I tweaked.
I was thinking that I should take this baking one step at a time and not go through anything complicated first. I actually love banana bread so I surfed the Internet for the best recipes and I found two - Rachel Ray's and Food.com's recipe. I also changed the recipe a bit and used dark brown sugar instead of refined white sugar.
So here's the recipe I used (makes 1 loaf)
1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 pieces bananas, mashed
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
As i read in the intructions, I should be mixing all the dry ingredients together. I didn't sift the flour so I was trying to pulverize some flour lumps I found in the process.
After I mixed all the dry ingredients, I added all the wet and moist ingredients... Only thing I left out was the chocolate chips.
At this point in folding and mixing the ingredients together, I was already wishing I was ambidextrous because it feels like a work out and I was only working out my left arm.
I think I made a mistake adding the butter when it was not fully softened. I found these hunks of butter in the mixture and I had to do some extra mixing just to make it all look homogeneous.
After some left arm exercise later, it eventually looked like a decent enough batter.
Folded in the choco chips last... I realized, maybe it's too much?
Used my spanking new non stick pan..
The bread looked perfect after around 40 minutes of baking at 177 degrees Celsius.
So for this first baking experience I think I PASSED.
It looks pretty yummy and it tastes really yummy. It isn't so sweet (despite the 1 cup sugar and 1 cup choco chips -yikes!)
Yay! I do have an issue though....
Why does it collapse after fully cooling it? I wonder...
I still consider it as a success in terms of taste however, I guess I'll have to work on what went wrong in the aesthetics.
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