Let’s eat some Sweets

The current pandemic has taught us a lot of things. It taught us how to spend our money wisely. Because many businesses were closed a lot of people also lost their respective jobs. But despite all of these circumstances, we stay stronger than what we were on the past years. This situation also allowed us to learn new skills and talents and some of these were used for our own advantage. My sister in law, who is a public school teacher learned how to bake a cake during those times. Even though she was busy in her online classes, she still find time to create and baked some yummy cakes which was posted on her facebook account. Later on, she had an additional extra income because a lot of people were ordering cakes from her. She was not alone though, a lot of people acquired new skills such us cooking, and baking during this trying times. Eventually they used these skills and earned by selling it online so that they can still sustained the needs of their family.

Anyway, let’s go back to my article topic. As I have mentioned earlier, I was inspired by my sister-in-law’s eagerness to learn new things while staying at home. Since we don’t have an oven yet, I learned that I can still make a cake without baking it. Steamer is the key. So in the next few days of ongoing lockdowns last year, I started watching youtube tutorials about steaming a cake. A big thanks to all these tutorials, I was encouraged to make one.

Moist Chocolate Cake

I decided to steam a moist chocolate cake for the New Year’s Celebration. But first I bought the basic materials needed to make one, like spatula, mixing bowl, measuring cups, and strainers. Then I bought the baking ingredients for my moist chocolate cake. When I got all the things needed, I started following all the basic steps from the tutorials I’ve on youtube channel. I can’t exactly remember the page where I’ve watched it, but if you want to give it a try too, you can just type “how to steam cake” on the search button. There will be a lot of tutorials you can find, but almost all of them were just the same. Just be careful on following the correct measurements of each ingredients so that you’ll be successful on your first try. So on the eve of New Year this year, I got to steam my first moist chocolate cake.

Chocolate Cake Balls

Since my first chocolate cake was a success, I wanted to learn more on how to make easy desserts. It was only for family consumption but since Valentines was approaching, I tried making chocolate cake balls. Again, when you don’t know how to cook and make something, youtube is the key. I don’t like making things complicated, so I searched for the very easy to follow steps on the search button. I bought all the needed ingredients and followed every single step for my chocolate cake balls. I think it was a success too because my two boys keep asking for more. Ah too much sweets is bad for teeth so they drank a lot of water after consuming it.

Anniversary Cake

Ok so the next occasion on the list was our 9th wedding anniversary. We had a very simple celebration because I think by that time, there were positive cases recorded within our village. The homeowners association prohibited mass gathering for everyone’s sake. Of course we followed, so we celebrated our wedding anniversary this year in a very simple way. My husband cooked my favorite pancit and I also steamed our anniversary cake. Just a very simple one.

Banana cupcake

Aside from cake, I also tried steaming a cupcake. And one of my favorite one is banana cupcake. Steaming banana cupcake was just like making puto. They almost had the same procedure but you have to add more minutes in steaming the banana cupcake for a great result. I usually make this when we have a leftover banana or when the banana is overripe already. The taste is much better when you used it. For extra sweetness you can add some chocolate chips.

Final Thoughts

In these modern times, we were all lucky because there were so many platforms we can reached out in order to attained new skills. We can even cooked our favourite dishes in no time, thanks for the online tutorials. It will definitely boosts our confidence in cooking and at the same time saves our money instead of buying it from the restaurant. I know we can’t make it perfect at first try, but if we keep on trying, success will surely come along.

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That would be all for today. Sorry for making you hungry with my desserts. They said that when you spell stressed backward you’ll come up with desserts, so the best way to fight stressed was to eat desserts. Make sense right?😅

Before I end this up, please give some love to all these lovely souls. They were all amazing and great. 😍

Lead Image from Unsplash and the rest of the images were all mine.