Home economics - Ginger gems

Hey, yesterday for cooking we made ginger gems, we had to look through the ingredients and the direction, it was difficult cause most of the measurements you had to look at the directions. This was a very good recipe and I definitely do it again. Here is the recipe and the direction for ginger gems:

(Serves 12)

ingredients:

150g Butter
1/2 cup Sugar
2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 Tbsp Golden syrup
1 Egg
2 cups Standard flour
1/2 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Baking soda
1/2 cup Milk

Direction:

1. Preheat oven to 200 degc. Place gem iron (or muffin tin) in the oven to heat.
2. Cream 100g of the butter with sugar, ginger and cinnamon.
3. Beat in golden syrup and egg, adding a tablespoon or two of the flour prevent curdling.
4. Sift flour and baking powder.
5. Dissolve baking soda in the milk. Mix flour into butter mixture alternately with the milk.
6. Remove gem iron from the oven and put it on a wood board.
7. Add half a teaspoon of remaining butter to each mould or hollow. It will sizzle.
8. Fill moulds with batter. Bake for about 15 min, until a skewer inserted in the centre, comes out clean.
9. Cool slightly then remove gems to cool on a wire rack.

This week our food didn't work out as well as last week and this week my group didn't work as well as last weeks group. My ginger gems were a bit different from everyone else, they were lumpy and wasn't cooked well either. Here is our Ginger gems I the gem iron (muffin tin):

As I said before my group this week didn't work as well, we didn't really know what we are doing and we didn't really communicate properly as we were meant too. I think the reason why the ginger gems didn't look as well as the other groups were because we put the baking powder instead of the baking soda in the milk. The gems were also not spicy enough it was a bit plain but the texture on the outside was crispy and the inside was good but the flavour and the look of them weren't very flattering.