My First-Ever Attempt in Baking

I’m a huge believer that you can be anything you want… as long as it involves a strong will and a genuine effort. With that said, I strongly believe that nothing is holding me back from being a self-taught baker… as long as everything homemade (by me) will only be home-consumed.

Last month, I told my mom that I wanted to bake. Her reply was skeptical at best, cynical at worst (to quote her exact words, “You? Baking?!”).

No hard feelings though. I had never remotely shown any interest in learning my way in the kitchen, thus it's understandable that my desire shocked her to the core. Still doubting my sincere yearning to bake, my mom asked my aunt for an oven recommendation (since we didn't have one at home). She thought we were lucky that my aunt was willing to lend her gas oven to me for as long as I needed.

(Honestly, I had been eyeing this particular cute electric oven for weeks, but my mom convinced me that a free oven was obviously a better oven for an unconvincing beginner, so I gave in.)

And that, my friend, is the story of how I had my first-ever baking experience.

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Devina Hermawan is an Indonesian chef who is widely known because of her participation in Master Chef Indonesia Season 5. For us Indonesians, her YouTube channel has become one of our go-to guides for her many homemade recipes. Upon finding out that she had shared a tutorial on baking cookies, I didn't look further. I decided to follow through (almost) each of her steps with some modifications here and there. Click here to watch the video and then scroll down to find some useful tips:


Tips💡: I substituted butter with Blue Band Baking Cake & Cookies margarine. It certainly smelled better than the original Blue Band.


Mix, mix, mix. So much fun.


My dough was ready to be shaped and baked:


My decision not to fill the cookies with another chocolate filling turned out to be a good thing since the sugar proportion in the dough was more than enough to highlight the sweetness of the dish. For a sweet tooth like me, the cookies were good and sweet. For my mom and aunts, they were good but too sweet.

In conclusion? I will still be making these in the future.

Tips💡: If you want to add some chocolate filling, I suggest that you cut the sugar proportion in the dough a little bit.

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