Learning is sometimes hard on the ego - and on the palate
Wednesday for our weekly D&D session I made chili and cornbread with honey butter. The cornbread was the first recipe in One Bowl Baking and so my first step in my project. Which of course means I took no photos. I will say that it was well-received by the group, though it was really the honey butter that people loved. About the cornbread recipe, well there isn't much to say. It was a completely adequate recipe. The new idea in the recipe is that it's supposed to be a toaster recipe and made in a muffin tops pan. I'm not buying a piece of baking equipment I don't see myself using much and the recipe did state that it could be done in a muffin pan. So, that's what I did. Certainly no complaints about the recipe, easy and tasty.
The second recipe I tried this week was Tasty's Japanese Cheesecake recipe. This was my first time making something that required a merengue and tempering eggs. It was a fail.
It looked mostly aesthetically pleasing, but I clearly messed up when tempering my eggs. You can't see that from the outside.
It could be a little higher, but it doesn't look too bad does it? But when I cut into it, there was a different story.
You can see the rubbery layer on the bottom. First, that's where all the cream cheese vanished too because I overheated my egg yolks. It's rubbery because water got into the springform I used. This is why we do test runs, people. It feels shitty to mess up but it feels worse to mess up when it's a special occasion rather than a random Sunday afternoon. Now I know what to be more careful about in the future and also I can feel alright that at least my first time whipping egg whites into stiff peaks worked.
Live and learn, even though it stings the ego some.
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