The taste of happiness from baking

Oct 15, 2021

It's hilarious when I think about it now, and sure enough, creativity is sometimes forced out hahaha! !

My grandmother's house is behind a large bakery in a small village. At certain times of the day, there will be a lingering, tempting aroma of baking bread filling the air.

It feels like lying on a mountain of freshly baked toast , and no matter where you turn or roll, you can smell the chemical reaction of carbohydrates, proteins, and sugars under high heat (commonly known as beauty . Rad reaction and caramelization ), I call it simply the smell of happiness !

Every time I go back to my grandmother's house, as soon as I "detect" the smell of toasted bread, I keep my nose up and keep smelling it. I follow the scent to the outside of my grandmother's house, and I face the bakery and inhale the smell of happiness. Suck it, suck it up!

(Fortunately, inhaling the aroma (should) not gain weight, otherwise every time I come back from my grandmother's house, my clothes and pants must be much bigger!!!)

After I came to study in the UK, I haven't returned to Malaysia for several years, and I have no chance to go back to my grandmother's house to be full of happiness. Although I sometimes go to a supermarket in the UK and the baking department is still operating, I can smell the fragrant bread smell, but it may be because of the different types of bread baked, so the aroma when baking is also different. I prefer to recall the aroma of the bakery behind my grandmother's house when baking bread. In my impression, it has a hint of sweetness; while the British toast tastes not so sweet, but has a stronger wheat flavor.

Because every kitchen in the UK has an oven , I began to fantasize about the happiness of the baking smell running through my nostrils, and slowly started my baking!

At the beginning, I used simple recipes with good reviews found on the Internet, such as simple egg tarts and carrot cake, and then gradually advanced to Shanghai moon cakes with a little more work and New Year cookies; after that, I made more Get your favorite Mexican Coffee Bread and Potato Bread!

Every time these darlings are ready to be baked in the oven for a while, the tantalizing aroma of baking fills the kitchen, the hallways, the whole house.

That's what happiness looks like, I think - carefully mixing prosaic ingredients; putting them in the oven and waiting for their wonderful chemical reaction with the heat; smelling the mesmerizing aroma of chemical reactions; watching They grow taller; watch them turn into their delicious look :D

Easy Portuguese Egg Tarts - The outer skin is made with ready-made puff pastry from the supermarket

Not pretty, but a normal looking strawberry cake

Look at the side, it turns out not normal! How come it's only half! XDDDD

The strawberry cake above is only half because I broke one of the cakes, so I had to take the remaining one and cut it in half to serve as another layer of cake XDDD

The carrot cake baked for Christmas in 2017, is the radish decoration on it cute?

Basque cake that used to be very red, very simple and delicious

I went on a trip and insisted on getting a brownie, but I brought a whisk but forgot its tamper. . I had to use a manual egg beater to beat the eggs all the way, and I was almost exhausted. .

The cheese-flavored pineapple cake I made this year when I was in the UK for the Lunar New Year. It was the first time I made it. It was very salty and sweet.

Because I missed the banana cake in Malaysia, I found a recipe and learned to make it myself. This is really delicious! Here's the secret: using bananas that are ripe to the point of rotting will be more fragrant! !

For the Shanghai mooncakes made for this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, I didn't bake them until they were sunken for the first time! It bakes so beautifully! !

The thousand layer cake made on Sunday, simple, but really time-consuming, and delicious haha! I just made too much, because I was afraid that the fresh cream would go bad, so I stuffed it wildly every day, and the two people ate it for 3 days. .

Making Mexican coffee bread ING, those coffee powders are really hard to come by~~~

The finished Mexican coffee bread - it's really delicious when served hot! !

And finally my proudest and most proud baking creation - Mexican Coffee Bread!

When I was making this bread, there was a small problem, that is, I bought the wrong coffee powder, and that's it, I ended up buying the Latte 3-in-1 granule with very little coffee! But I just want coffee powder, no creamer or sugar. .

The supermarket just closed at that time, so what should I do? Had to filter manually.

but! ! The hole in the sieve is too big, and as soon as the infusion is poured in, the coffee and creamer all fall to the other end of the sieve, and nothing is held. .

I was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, because the bread part was ready for fermentation, only the coffee crispy sugar layer on the top was missing, and that was the essence of the whole coffee bread! ! If not, this bread will not be made, what should I do? ?

Finally, forgetting that it was Young Master Ye or my idea, we opened the closet, took out my new stockings, put it on the cup,

We wanted to use stockings to filter out the creamer, as a result. .

It worked. XDDD

It's super hilarious when I think about it, and sure enough, creativity is sometimes forced out hahaha! ! !
(Why do I still feel so proud now? XDD)

Now that I think about it, every baking brings me a clear memory, whether it succeeds or fails in the end. When the finished product is delicious, it really makes me very excited and has a sense of accomplishment. Until now, I feel that baking is a very enjoyable and very happy thing~ (washing dishes and basins are not in the scope of baking, absolutely! Absolutely not! XD)

I think, it's not just the smell of baking that brings me the taste of happiness; the hobby of baking brings me another taste of happiness, right? (laugh)

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