Baking up a storm in a cup(cake).
You might think baking as a mere fluffy stuff housewives do in the kitchen. What you don’t know is that baking is a form of chemistry. The mixing of ingredients used for baking a cupcake are not much mixing chemicals to make a plastic cup. For example, did you know flour itself is made up of mostly starch granules and proteins? Any slight changes in a recipe would make a difference between a moist cake and a brick. The only thing that separates baking from chemistry is that you can actually eat the results. Last Friday on 24th March, the Honnets are learning how to bake cupcakes under the watchful eyes of Honsbridge’s teachers. The teachers are on hand to give pointers on how to bake the cupcakes and the chemistry involved behind them. Honnets involved are from Junior classes – SJ2 & 3, J9, J10A & B and J12. While they’re given the same ingredients for the cupcakes – corn oil, egg, flour, each class tackle the challenge of mixing and baking their own way. SJ2...