Banana Bread (Gone Wrong)

And I haven’t posted after a week since I baked what I needed to bake that week too. But it ended up becoming up almost two weeks since I haven’t blogged anything last week but there were a slew of events that happened when baking and all that. It’s unrelated to baking but there were a bunch of special events that happened at my school that included a talk on college (because I’m about to be college anyways so I have to focus on getting into it). I went to prom and went with a date and there was another talk on Cyberbullying but that wasn’t really worth all that stuff.

So teacher being gone and me having a delay in baking for almost two weeks or maybe one week if you count Sunday as a start of the new week. Since I was on a vacation to an island called Borracay in the Philippines. My cousin wanted the whole vacation anyways and I’ll leave it at that the cookies I baked that week ended up selling well (thus making money from vacation). The good thing is that I earned some money from baking and that’s good for me too.

Well since baking class has been slacking lately due to the fact that we haven’t baked

Focacia Bread, or talked about the Focacia Bread we baked in like several weeks due to a slew of events happening teacher made us what stuff we baked and asked whether we wanted to do the easy or hard stuff. Most of the class voted to do the easy stuff so the teacher decided to teach the class about baking Banana Bread. Which is probably one of the easier stuff that none of us actually baked yet because of time then exam week is coming up in a few weeks. So teaching us how to bake Banana Bread wouldn‘t be an issue currently.

After teaching us how to make Banana Bread I had to ask to go bake on Sunday. Since Friday was a prom and since I’m not allowed to bake without my parents around and my parents are out already I had to wait till Sunday to be allowed to bake. So I baked on a Sunday the Banana Bread because that is what’s expected of me to do not because I want to bake up something and not make any money at all. Anyways I got a new standing mixer and thankfully I don’t need a hand mixer anymore because a standing mixer is pretty good material for baking anyways.

So I poured the ingridients I considered dry and manually mixed them, then afterwards I put all the wet ingredients on the new standing mixer and turned it so that it will be able to mix and all. So instead of doing the mixing myself I standed near the mixer and wait for the whole thing to be properly mixed. Afterwards I poured the dough of the Banana Bread to the loaf pan I had but before that I preheated the oven but accidentally preheated it to 160 degrees farenheit instead of the 300 I was supposed to heat but its harder to preheat your oven anyways so I just agreed set the oven temperature and put the Banana Bread in the oven.

Well I was supposed to bake it for an hour but the Banana Bread started smelling and burning when it hit the 40 minute mark of the Banana Bread since you’re supposed to bake the Banana Bread at an hour. I keep forgetting that the oven bakes faster than normal recipe time so the top got burned the sides and bottom were toasted. The insides were still soft I removed the top part of the bread and just sold the bread without it I racked some money my dad bought the second batch of Banana Bread and I ate it.

The banana bread ended up burning because of my carelessness at least I know that the mixer I just bought isn’t a problem of itself. Honestly I accidentally burned a plastic cup because I accidentally preheated my oven without looking at it now it’s burnt. I realized I did this twice with carelessness is me not caring and learning from my mistakes at all. Well at least admitting it in this blog is a good thing.

So thankfully a bit of the banana bread got sold and all and there was some cash out of

this whole project. The thing got sold out in a day since I’ve been baking cookies as this quick and easy dish to sell which could get tirring for a while thankfully I have next summer to actually experiment more with stuff. But for now I’m just going to bake whatever what teacher wants the class to bake for grades and all. Thankfully in a couple of weeks its exams and planning for the last day of school then a thought about the cold long distance future.

Which probably involves growing this business anyways and trying to figure out stability and what stuff shall we bake in the future. Which is almost close now and trying to run a business let alone something with food is something tricky to consider. I told the baking class the story of the whole me baking the banana bread and they keep insisting that I was bragging of putting the temperature wrong which I’m not by the way putting the temperature wrong and the teacher thought I didn’t have an oven thermometer the again he was wrong. My oven thermometer was recently bought. It was bought back when I was baking the White Amish Bread. So this was nothing new overall and my baking slightly improved when I baked certain things. I have to admit this fundamental baking course helped me.

This might be the third to last blog post on Baking Class Startups series. Which is coming to a halt when this whole baking class is over and now the business is about to pass its startups phase and move on to becoming an actual business and not a startup company that we did to sell deserts. At least having work experience at a young age is great right? Companies will most likely ask for experience anyways when one is applying for a job.