Just a few of my (food) experiments

I like to try out different recipes especially when I have the needed ingredients at hand. And I call them "Experiments", which gives me some justification if the food didn't end up right especially the taste. However, 80% of my so-called experiments ended up better than I expected, which often surprises me. But the weird thing is I cannot replicate these experiments; I have to do several trials. But I have no complaints. Example, a couple of my experiments are my banana-kiwi-hazelnut spread crepe and chocolate cupcake.

Banana-kiwi-hazelnut spread crepe

My hubby loved this one. I made it for breakfast one weekend. Good thing we were given a few yellow kiwi fruit brought by hubby's aunt from a visit to New Zealand. I really wanted to use Nutella but my budget does not permit so I used the regular hazelnut chocolate spread. It turned out fine.

Chocolate cupcake

Relatively moist inside

This one my daughter loved. Ever since my sister gave me an electric mixer, I try to use it whenever I can. Since I don't have an actual oven (someday..will definitely buy one when I have the budget), I use my turbo broiler for baking. My baking trials always end up too dry or burnt on top. Lessons learned has finally paid up. For this mini chocolate cake, I lessened the baking time, lowered the temperature and covered the top with aluminum foil to keep it from overbaking the top portion. And viola! I made my first moist cake made from scratch and baked from my turbo broiler. As I have said, it is relatively moist on the inside compared to my previous cakes (from the box). Next project: to make a better moist cake. But for now, I quite satisfied with myself ;).

PS. Pardon my choice of words like trials and experiments. I have worked in research for several years so naturally, I can't shake off using some relatively scientific words.