custard cream

Grrrrr....! I bombed it ...
I tried to bake a sponge cake yesterday but ... I screwed it up.

It was one of the goo blogs that I recently like to browse. The blogger, who is called Kotori-san, told me how to bake a cake with a frying pan. Isn't it innovative?
Well, I ended up trying to use the conventional oven, though. You need a lid that can completely shut the pan. A frying pan with a lid works like an oven, according to Hanamaru TV. But I didn't have a frying pan with a lid so... Anyway.
Doesn't matter because I failed it before baking..

I put melted butter in when I was whipping the eggs. It was supposed to be the very last but I DID IT!! I couldn't believe the whipped egg collapsed in a second or two. I was like, " ....NOOOOOO...!! " Silly me!!

Things could have been worse, right? Fortunately, I didn't mix flour yet so I changed the plan. I reduced the flour two thirds and added milk. Yes, it was going to be custard cream!
Why custard cream? Because this recipe is also what I wanted to challenge. I had scribbled its recipe from some Website on the back of the slip. There was no butter mentioned in the recipe, but I guessed it wouldn't make much difference.

Check this out.. Whoa, what a miserable look. Custard in a plastic container..
It tastes OK but I put vanilla too much ( precisely, I spilled it over the tea spoon). And some lumps remained when finished. I wanted it smoother. .... Yeah, I judge it well-done for the first time.
I was going to bake some choux today but, because of the bad conditioned roads ( see the picture from yesterday's diary), I hardly went to supermarket today. I remain running out of bread flour so the plan cannot be carried out.
Sucks!! Sucks!!