Today I was making Banana Cake...In my house I am the baker...I am also number 1 mess maker because sometimes I forget to clean up after myself... anyway I was doing really well with my banana cake and we needed self-raising flour for the mixture, but we didn't have any. So mum went on google and asked how much baking powder to a cup of flour. I thought that meant we were replacing self-raising flour with baking powder...so I left out the flour. The cake was in the oven and mum came to check how I was doing. She asked me why the cake looked really watery... I said because there was heaps of milk and only 3 teaspoons of baking powder...What? came the reply. I said if we had self-raising flour it would have been thicker. No! Mum quickly took out the cake. What is wrong with that? I said to my self It's not such a big thing substituting the self-raising flour with baking powder?
"Ha ha" Mum was laughing?
"Atarah what I meant was that you add 3 teaspoons of baking powder to the 2 cups of normal flour!"
"Ha ha" My sisters started laughing, I went red in the face and I could feel my ears hot with embarrassment. I ran upstairs to my room. I don't like being laughed at. After a while I came back and tried to do it again but it didn't work. The time that I spent in my room was good thinking time. I realised that everyone makes mistakes! Some could be big ones like not getting insurance for you car and some could be little like forgetting an ingredient when baking or cooking. I realised in order for Thomas Edison to invent the light bulb he had to fail 10,000...I realised that everyone has to be a failure before being successful.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Anyway I have the confidence to write this because after I came back downstairs I was sitting and all of a sudden started laughing. I also learnt that laughing with people about mistakes that you have made is much better than sulking in your room. Anywho if you are from room 17 '2010' you'll know that I'm quite smart (If I say so myself) and everyone knows that the main ingredient in nearly all baking is flour... so how did this smart girl forget a vital ingredient in baking? That is a question I am still asking myself and I've come up with a brilliant answer EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES! Anyway I don't care if people who are reading this think I'm dumb because you know what it was quite silly for me to do that and now all I have left to say it LOL!!! and Peace Out!!!:p
