There are good things about cooking in a dorm: like I have a tap that runs boiling water, and its not my job to clean the floors. But then there's some not-so-great stuff.
21 times. That's how many times I ran up and down the three flights of stairs separating me from the kitchen. It took three trips alone to just get "all" of the stuff down, and then I started realizing what I'd forgotten: the vanilla, the mixing bowl, the other mixing bowl, the sugar, the cake mix, a spoon... and then even more trips to bring it all back, since cake takes up more space than the ingredients.
It was a ridiculous night, all in all. Usually I cook with my best friend (who splits the trips upstairs) but she's on an interview, which is the reason I was baking in the first place. In addition to the insane amount of running, I got a nose full of egg white powder (when, for whatever reason I thought sniffing powdered egg white would be a good idea) and realized I don't have any white sugar. Sure, I have 10 pounds of powdered sugar and two boxes of brown sugar, but no white. At that point I was so fed up that I just used the brown sugar, but that turned out to be really hard and no matter how long I microwaved it it still wasn't perfect, so I suspect my cake-eaters will be enjoying brown sugar clumps in their WASC; but the tiny bit I sampled tasted okay. To put the cherry on this lousy experience, when I set my hand mixer down (another peril of dorm life is the absence of mom's kitchen-aid that works so nicely at home) it fell off the counter. In order to save the thing (which was not cheap, despite its appearance, especially for a poor college student) I grabbed at anything I could: and caught it by the beater, saving the mixer but COVERING myself in royal icing. Awesome.
i'm sorry to hear that! i'm in college too so i feel your pain. i actually have a few papers tacked to my fridge with all the recipes i use the most and whenever i'm getting ready bake i use them as a check-list to gather the ingredients. it really helps! check and double check before you leave your room and use large bags to tote everything with you =D
cake_architect-- your cakes are exquisite! How do you have time for that on top of an engineering degree, my goodness! I feel incredibly humbled. Also-- I tried to use a mental checklist tonight (I got roped into baking for the super bowl as well: I don't even know who's playing!) and I only had to run back for something I forgot twice. And one of those times I hadn't forgotten it, someone actually stolen the butter. (another peril of dorm life.) Hooray for overpriced on-campus convenience shops or my buttercream would have been ruined.
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