BIRTHDAY CAKE!

In honor of my mother's birthday I decided to make her a cake! I used the recipe from the side of a carton of  heavy whipping cream. One might be skeptical about using a recipe about from the side of a cream carton,  but it turned out really nice. Following the instructions was easier than I anticipated. Everything mixed well together and got into the baking pan without  hitch.

After the baking is when the fun began. I love decorating food, so after letting the cake cool, I made whipped cream. I took the heavy whipping cream and whisked it. I separated it into different bowls and then added food dye. While decorating I decided that whipped cream wasn't the best frosting to decorate with. It started to melt and dripped over everything. Halfway through I put it in the freezer so it would stop melting.


                                                                               
                                                                                                                 

Before

After

                                                       

I surprisingly did quite well with the cake. It tasted good and turned out, more or less, the way I wanted it. The next step is making more difficult desserts! Yum.

After an hour of hard work, it came out really well. The end result was a very happy mother and a great way to end a birthday.

Pasta with Alfredo Sauce

This endeavor was quite an adventure of which I gathered I have no patience for cooking. I was hungry, so I decided I was going to make pasta with Alfredo sauce. I boiled some water and then put the noodles in. While I was waiting for them to cook I started the make the white sauce. I looked up a recipe online for a simple way to make the sauce. After successfully putting in the milk and butter, I started to have trouble with the flour. No matter how long I cooked it, I couldn't get out the clumps. Once I had given up on making the sauce, I turned back to the boiling noodles. They never seemed to be ready. I kept checking them, but they never seemed fully cooked. At one point I finally gave in and just drained the noodles and put the Alfredo sauce on top on them. They didn't taste horrible, but they were average at best. It was a success in the case that I didn't starve.

I need to learn the art of cooking before I am hungry so I am not so impatient. I also learned, after the fact from my mentor, to sift the flour into the pan so it does not clump. Good advice to know for next time I try to cook a sauce that includes flour. Overall, it's more experience that I get and one step closer to my goal of becoming a better cook.