Practicing making sweets
I'd be grateful if you could check and correct my sentences.
I like sweets, and I'm practicing making them.
I recently made a chocolate brownie cake and a sponge cake.
The chocolate brownie was delicious because its texture and sweetness were just right.
However, the sponge cake was not good because it was not soft.
I think I mixed the dough too much or the amount of butter was not enough.
Making a good sweets is difficult but it is also fun.
I'll keep practicing it.
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Practicing making sweets
I'd be grateful if you could check and correct my sentences.I like sweets, and I'm practicing making them.
I recently made a chocolate brownie cake and a sponge cake.
The chocolate brownie was delicious because its texture and sweetness were just right.
However, the sponge cake was not good because it was not soft.
I think I mixed the dough too much or there wasn't enough butter.
Making a good sweets is difficult but it is also fun.
I'll keep practicing it.
Well done. I bet you'll get good at it soon enough.
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Using the word "sweets" to mostly refer to candy/chocolates may be a regional thing. I am looking at the Cambridge dictionary right now and it defines sweets as: "sweet food, such as candy or cake". "Baked goods" can also refer to non-sweet food items like bread. I think "confections" is the best word since it has the same meaning as 菓子.
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Most of this is really good but there are two things that I wanted to point out to you. First, when native English speakers say sweets, they are generally talking about candy or types of chocolate. Since you are talking about cakes in this example it would be better to say something like, "I like sweet things" or "I like cakes" or "I like baked goods". Also, after you say, "I like cakes" I would then say "...so I'm practicing making them".
My second suggestion is at the end when you use sweets again. In the sentence you wrote it either needs to be "Making a good sweet is difficult..." or "Making good sweets is difficult..." because "a" is a singular article but "sweets" is plural so you can't use them together. If you fix that then the sentence would be grammatically accurate but to sound more natural I would change "sweet(s)" into "cake(s)" because it once again sounds like you are talking about candy but you are actually talking about cakes.
I hope this helps:)
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