Patience is the Key

I have learnt one crucial thing when it comes to baking. Patience is the key to success. Unfortunately for me, this is not something that i possess. When people describe me, i think the word furthest from their mind would be patient. Many of my baking failures are from my impatient nature. Just yesterday, I could not wait for some butter to come to 'room temperature' so i decided to nuke it a little in the microwave... big mistake. I don't know what happened, but whatever it was, it was not good. The tart mixture that i made, became a sloppy mess. Somehow the oil from the butter had seperated itself, and the mixture looked like scrambled eggs. So not only did I waste 100g's of almond meal (expensive stuff!), i had oily mess everywhere.

I am the type of person who will bake their cake, and put icing on it straight away because i am not patient enough to wait for the cake to loose all its heap. This results in the icing being put onto the hot cake, and melting and sliding off. This sort of thing happens on a regular basis for me... as below. pretty isnt it... NOT.


So yesterday when I was chucking away the burnt oily remains of my tart, and dying a little bit inside whilst looking at the unrecognizable remains, i came to the conclusion that patience is the key to success. Now it may not come to me as second nature, but it is something that i will DEFINITELY have to work hard on if i want to get something at least a little presentable. And that is my lesson of the day!