Cooking with Flour Part 2 - Limited budget cooking

Okay, so continuing on from the flour

theme, you can also make a lovely treat, a

sweet cake, or a cupcake as it's also

known in other languages.

So you're gonna get your— basically it's

the same as the pancake, but instead of

salt you put sugar.

So you go with the self-raising flour,

about that much, and you want to sieve out

the lumps.

Make it snow.

And then you want to get the sugar, and

you want to put in quite a lot of sugar,

nearly a 1 to 1 ratio of sugar to flour.

Depends on how sweet you want it, so you

put in a lot of sugar.

Maybe about that much.

And then we put milk, not water.

I'm gonna put milk to have more of a cakey

texture

like that.

And then, oh, also a touch of salt.

You may think it's weird putting salt in a

dessert, but it actually brings out the

other flavors.

And cinnamon would be good if you had it,

but I don't have any.

Oh, I do have lemon juice

that Sunny left behind.

Look, I got lemon juice.

I might add some of that,

a few squirts,

just for some extra flavor.

Mix it up.

This is looking a bit runny, so I might

add more flour.

Yeah, I think, I think I need more flour.

So we go back in with the sieve.

And maybe a bit more sugar since we've

added more flour.

Mix it all up,

get the flour around the edges.

And yeah, you want kind of this

consistency, not too runny, kind of

gloopy.

Okay, so for the, um, cooking method,

we're going to be using an air fryer.

You want to preheat it to about

160 for a few minutes, and then we're

going to cook it for a total of about 30

minutes.

So you don't want it to cook too fast and

cook the outside but the inside is still

raw.

So you want a lower heat, a longer cook

time.

And you want to get your paper cups.

So I've got these paper cups,

and what I do is— oh, I nearly forgot.

So first of all, you want to do a double

layer because if you do one layer

The cup's kind of flimsy and I don't have

a baking tray, so I double up with 2

layers like that so it's more sturdy.

And you also gotta coat it in oil,

otherwise half the cupcake is gonna stick

to the cup, which is what happened the

first time I did it.

So I made about 3, I think.

So you also want to get one of these

brushes, they're really useful.

So I put some oil in the bottom of one,

and then you just want to smear it around

basically.

And then you want to take the oil from

this one and use it to coat the other one.

And that— you don't have to coat the walls

that much because it usually doesn't

stick to the walls.

It sticks to the bottom, so make sure you

coat the bottom like that.

And then try and scoop up as much oil to

transfer it over to the next one like

that.

Yeah, that should be enough.

And then,

um,

You might want to put a bit of oil into

the batter.

I don't know why, but I've seen people do

that.

Also, sometimes they put some butter,

so mix the oil into the batter.

I don't know what adding an egg would do

to it.

I know in cakes usually they put an egg.

Okay, so we're now going to pour it into

the cups carefully,

and we want about that much in the cup,

not too much.

Make such a mess doing this.

Okay, so again, we're going to

Pour into the cup, that much.

And

then the next one.

I feel like I've got too much batter.

I could make a 4th one, actually.

I'll make a 4th one.

I really want to get some raisins or

cherries.

I could put a cherry on top or mix raisins

into it.

That'd be pretty good because it's a bit

of a

plain bun, so something like raisins would

be nice.

Oh, some cinnamon powder.

Okay, and then we're just gonna place it

into the air fryer.

Um, got to be a bit careful.

It's hard to pick it up actually.

You got to use 2 hands.

This is very wobbly.

Drop them in.

So it's like that.

I'm gonna put it in for about 25 minutes,

maybe 30,

come back later.

Okay, so I think it's ready.

Let's have a look.

Ooh,

looks a bit— I mean, the shape is a bit

weird and deformed and bulbous.

But it should taste good.

I don't really know why the shape goes

like that.

Oh my gosh!

Oh, I dropped it on the floor.

Oh no!

But it's fine because I just cleaned the

floor actually.

So yeah, if we tear into it, see what the

texture of the cupcake looks like.

It looks like it's kind of stuck to the

paper, which is weird.

Maybe this is the cup that I didn't put

much oil into.

Let's try this one.

I put quite a lot of oil.

I don't know why it seems pretty stuck

with all of them, which is weird.

Yesterday I did this and it wasn't stuck.

Maybe I didn't put enough oil.

It's pretty stuck.

What?

It's like I haven't put any oil at all.

Yeah, yeah, a lot of it's stuck to the

bottom.

So it looks like this.

Caky.

Now you can add some golden syrup for some

extra flavor.

A bit like a scone, isn't it?

I can't really taste the lemon,

and it needs a bit more sugar, but it's

okay.