My Chiffon Cake Journey

My first thought: "so cheap, must be very easy to make". So I happily went to the cake shop and got the cake tin and all the ingredients. And this was my first chiffon cake.

Kaput cake. I was too happy that it rise so high, I quickly take it out and I didn't know that I need to overturn the cake for half or an hour before I can release it from the tin. On the same day, a big co called me and asked me to see them for design. Well, at least a good news that day :)
I tried a few rounds and I didnt even take pic of it cos the cake total went flat, uncooked and collapse. Unhappy about it, I kept quiet and kept thinking what's wrong. My hub encouraged me and he went to buy a tray of 30 eggs for me to try. he say fail nevermind, got 30 eggs for you to play with :) should I be happy or what? Haha

So I tried again, this time orange flavor recipe and I used Joyce's(an FB friend) recipe and the recipe was meant for smaller tin. But I don't know how to increase the amount and didnt dare to cos I'm still learning how to make an edible cake, what more wanna increase the vol? So the cake was abit thin but hey, an edible one. I'm happy enough.

So I tried again. This time after I got back from Cameron with fresh strawberries and i made using TMX recipe. So I made a chiffon cake with fresh strawberries minus colour or paste. It was okay but I'm still not quite happy with the outlook of it.

And then I made 2 orange chiffon cakes. One for my neighbour, one for me.

Yes, I tried again. This time with Pandan flavor and I'm quite happy with it :)

But jayden told me "mami, green is Justin fav colour. Not mine." so he refused to eat this cake. He asked me " can you make a blue or strawberry one for me?"

And so I tried again. (are you tired already? Cos I'm quite tired typing this in my iPhone haha) and this time I made a tri-colored chiffon cake. I followed the recipe from the "chiffon cake is done" recipe book and voila! My best ever chiffon cake. And everyone is happy cos JT got his green Pandan, JD got his pink strawberry and everyone is finishing my cake!

And then I got busy and there was totally no time to even think about cake, what more a so challenging cake like this. The egg white meringue, the egg yolk batter, the temp of the oven, the strict rule of no temp fluctuation, and must overturn the cake right after take out from oven, damn stressful.

So last sat we're at tesco and my hub kept asking me "so.... Wanna bake cake ah?" I said "why ah?" oooh cos tesco was having this promotion, buy rm100 and above and you can buy a tray of 30 eggs for Rm4++.

So today I though I'll fail again and plus, i have 30 eggs to play with. I quickly took out all the ingredients and this was the fastest cake I made so far. I was quite slumber about it cos I thought I'll fail. After I removed it from the oven, I quickly overturn it and brought it along to my mums house. As soon as we reached, JT said he wanna cut the cake with me and he said he want a pc although it was JD fav colour. My best and fastest chiffon cake so far.

I sat down and I thought to myself.. boy.. i really baked quite alot of chiffon cakes and then I checked my notica app in iPhone and I actually have a diary or the things I cooked and baked. From the first failed cake to my latest cake. What a journey ! And I wanna pat my own shoulder for not giving up :)