Pancake Fail.

I made pancakes this morning. It had started off great. I woke up to the happy sunshine, watched a bit of the morning show and decided I was hungry. Everything was going smoothly until I decided to ‘experiment’ and add a bit of cocoa powder to the pancake mixture. My reasoning was, “They just add cocoa to muffins to make them chocolate flavoured right?” Never again. Maybe I added too little, maybe my cocoa powder wasn’t the right type (the package does not present me with a single clue as to whether it was Dutch-processed or not) or the cocoa powder simply wasn’t enough. But it’ll never happen again.

The recipe was ‘adapted’ from the Smitten Kitchen. I ended using about 1 ¾ cups of milk and 4 teaspoons of the cocoa power (Cadbury Bourneville) and about 2 ½ tablespoons of sugar. Please don’t try it. The recipe on it’s own is delicious but these little tweeks equated to a failure.

Hi there :)

Ok. I don't really know why I've started this blog. Goodness knows I've enough journals already, but I guess this is just a impulsive, my-brain-is-too-tired-to-think-clearly, kind of thing, so we'll just have to wait and see how it all turns out.

I have this idea that this will be mainly a food-blog, but seeing as my cooking skills are amateur (I'm only 15) and cooking is only a little weekend, when-i-have-the-time, type hobby. Photography is also another interest of mine, but as with cooking, I'm just getting started and the quality of my pictures are a bit volatile. Either good enough to make me look pleased (until I take a look at flickr) or so horrible that I vow never to open them up again.

So ... I had made Orange-Cumquat scones a few days ago, but the pictures are too shameful to post here. I got the recipe here:

http://probonobaker.typepad.com/probonobaker/2009/03/orangeraspberry-scones.html

and I made a big mistake of using cake flour instead of unbleached, all purpose. Had to add something like a 1cup of extra flour and they ended up heavy, dense and just plain inedible. but I love scones and I think it would have worked had I not used the wrong flour, so I'll probably give it a go sometime in the future.

I've run out of flour though, and was hoping to make some cinnamon roll muffins to bring to school. This really shouldn't be a problem for most cooks/bakers but I am a money-less (until Chinese New Year at least) student with parents who do not believe in the power of cake. Go figure.