pre-bake

pre-bake experience is absolutely excluding any baking activity, which is reading the recipe. I've read some cooking recipe, but not baking recipe cos i always skip any baking recipe & focusing on the baking result pictures.

My mom is an incredible cooker & baker. She loves to bake so much and people admit that her cakes is taste good! However, I've never once participated in the baking process, spend most of my time tasting the cream or waste cakes and a little time in polishing the cream. I eat more than I make food. My first made cake was a steam one in my junior-school cooking class and my only baking experience is on cookies, which also got some hands by the house-assistant.

Few months ago, one of my love-to-bake-cousin, Monica who is now an active food-blogger, kindly sent me a package of black-sesame paste & seeds + a lovely envelope with a recipe card in it. I'm super excited for the card & envelope, they have this cute simple graphic on them. (please excuse me for being a graphic designer instead of a baker) I thought by that cute stationary set then I'll be excited to bake. But in fact, I haven't tried the recipe till today! till the paste is expired and now my mom is the one who wants to bake it.

............................. sorry sis, it just hasn't worked for me yet '_' the baking stuff. but would love to try it asap.

anyway, so here goes my first experience with cake-baking-recipe. I found 3 baking terms which forced me to google them to understand + an extra question to my mom.
1. fold in : you don't stir, but you take part of the mixture & bring up & over ...
2. stiff peaks : .......... still can't describe it in words.
3. soft peaks : so does this one, but i think i understand it. I think?

Gee..... even reading recipe is tough. -.-"
wish me luck in the future! hahaha...