This is the third part of a three-step control group experiment attempting to get the Hummingbird Bakery’s vanilla cupcakes recipe to work in the high altitude environment of Denver. Since I started this oh-so-fruitful experiment, I have long since suspected that baking powder is responsible for the majority of the recipe’s failure. Recall that baking […]
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High-Altitude Hummingbird Bakery Vanilla Cupcakes, Pt. 2: Decreasing Sugar
This is the second part of a three-step control group experiment attempting to get the Hummingbird Bakery’s vanilla cupcakes recipe to work in the high altitude environment of Denver. Recall that I determined that I could do three things to adjust the recipe: Add flour, to strengthen the recipe’s batter and prevent it from collapsing […]
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High-Altitude Hummingbird Bakery Vanilla Cupcakes, Pt. 1: Adding More Flour
This is the first part of a three-step control group experiment attempting to get the Hummingbird Bakery’s vanilla cupcakes recipe to work in the high altitude environment of Denver. Once again, sorry for the long silence. Work this week was especially brutal — I’ve been spending most days working 7am to 7pm, sitting in on […]
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Thanksgiving Lemon-Berry Cheesecake, Pt. 2: How to Hide the Cracks in Your Cheesecake
Interestingly enough, the first time I ever made cheesecake was also for another Thanksgiving dinner during my senior year of college. My parents, neither of whom were American, didn’t think it was necessary to fly me out to wherever they were living at the time (the Philippines? Sakhalin Island? I don’t even remember) for a […]
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Thanksgiving Lemon-Berry Cheesecake, Pt. 1: The Recipe
Unfortunately, I’ve been pulling 12-hour days at work for the last week and a half and haven’t had any time to actually try some of the modifications to the Hummingbird Bakery’s vanilla cupcakes recipe that I suggested in my previous post. I haven’t even really had the chance to really check out my new KitchenAid, […]
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The Science of Failure: Vanilla Cupcakes Edition
So, for all you non-believers — high-altitude really is a game changer when it comes to baking. Recall my “control” experiment from the previous post. A recipe that works beautifully at sea-level yields rather disastrous results at higher-altitudes: So what went wrong? The outsides of the batter in each individual cupcake space rose far too […]
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