From the intended muffin...

I keep getting asked why I chose www.intendedmuffin.blogspot.com as the URL for this blog. I have for long thought about devoting a blogpost to the question, but have not got round to doing it. The truth is that this blog began on the same day as my baking misadventures. I had decided to use a sponge cake recipe to bake muffins, and even before they went into the oven, I knew they wouldn’t come out as intended. I began the blog as the ‘intended’ muffins baked. They finally turned out to be flat, soft but not spongy. Too soft to be cookies and not soft enough to be muffins. So depending on how you looked at them, you could call them intended muffins or accidental cookies. Since my blog was to be preoccupied with perspective, I thought 'intendedmuffins' would do very well for a name.

I am finally writing this post just after having baked my first perfect cake yesterday. It has been a long way from the intended muffins to the proper cake, with another misadventure in between, earlier this month, when I was stingy with butter. I thank my dear friend Amrita for generously sharing with me her grandmother’s tips and her own expertise, on the fine art of baking. I thank Debarati and Prithviraj for encouraging me to buy bakeware when I was hesitating. And thanks also to this recipe that I used with some modifications.