Therapeutic baking...

Bahaha... I'm SO much happier after my baking session! My Macarons were a complete utter failure!!! haha =D

Notes to self when baking:

1. Do not bake when I don't have enough time
2. Do not decide to bake out of the blue especially when ingredients and tools are not yet prepared
3. Do not whisk egg white and count how many table spoons of sugar is going in whilst talking on the phone >.<
   
4. Due to above note, always measure things out properly before proceeding
5. Due to aforementioned note... refer to notes 1 & 2
6. Always bake only half or 1/3rd the recipe because my oven is not big enough to bake one full recipe at the one time. Also I don't have enough trays to pipe out all the batter and leave enough spacing at the same time =_="
   
7. The aforementioned note shall lead back to note 1. Given I actually have time maybe I could split the recipe and bake it in 2 lots
8. Must always remember to oil, butter, spray oil or whatever nonsense so that baked goods do not stick to paper (only the 2nd time I've forgotten that, 3rd time lucky?!) =D
9. Do not bake on a working night as per reason in note 1
10. Next time when buying an oven, must make sure it has a shelf in the MIDDLE! Not only shelves at the very top or very bottom o.O! Hence my food always having a very brown crust or very black base haha >_<"
    
11. Must work quickly so that ants do not eat my food even before it makes it into the oven (refer to notes 1, 3, 4  & 6)
12. Do not bake sweets at night. Seeing my oven is IN my room =P the sweet smell may cause me to awaken covered in ants X_X"
13. Do not start blogging whilst waiting for food to bake and/or cool (as per now) and wonder if ants are attacking food yet, but being so caught up with blogging can't really be bothered to go check ~.~"
    
14. Must always refer to this list to make sure I'm not making the same mistakes again hahaha >;P

I'm happy now. Life's too serious. I don't like being serious. Call me an idiot if you want, but isn't it better to laugh things off?! Contemplating if I should put up my disasterous photos LOL

Looking back, I think I might have put in too much sugar. Thanks to Smelly for calling at the wrong time! Not oiling the paper was my own fault haha. I always forget that part! Maybe I'm always too eager when it gets to that stage, or I'm just impatient =D But actually the book didn't say to oil the paper or anything... maybe the paper isn't non-stick enough?! I actually thought some pieces were salvageable after baking, but apparently not LOL the ants will be enjoying their desserts at this point in time.  WAY too sweet!

Lucky I was already buggered by the time I finished piping out the Macarons that I decided to leave making the butter cream till tomorrow! Turns out I wont be needing the cream anyways hehe >.<" My new hand held mixer is quite ok though. It has TURBO!!! haha... Ok so I got the smallest and cheapest mixer, it's a Philips, coz I'm trying to save $$ and I need a small one to store away easily too. But the lady at Takashimaya recommended it cos it gets the job done. And I agree. It's already quite fast on speed 5! Then when you hold down the turbo button... whee!!! But the lady said compared to the bigger models it's slower... Seriously?! I already find this one fast. Maybe the other ones will just fly out of my hand if I put it on full speed >;P

One bad thing is that I hate to read manuals... well I hate to read in general... so I kept wondering what the huge button at the front of the mixer was haha... Turns out it's to release the whisk parts... hmmm... imagine if I got curious while actually beating the eggs and pressed that button!!! LOL... actually I did try =_=" Luckily I'm not strong enough and wasn't able to push the button all the way down whilst it was in action hehe... Imagine what would've happened =D Fun right?! =.="

On the weekend I'll attempt my Cheesecake lol... hope that turns out better! Fingers crossed. Goodnight.