Baking!

[valiha]

So tonight I decided to bake a cake for the festivities tomorrow. I chose a basic mixture, which can be easily embellished by adding different ingredients. You start with three eggs, and add 9 spoons of sugar, milk, vegetable oil, flour, a spoon of baking powder and choose between two spoons of cocoa, or ground nuts, or coconut, or poppy seeds, or... take a pick. You can then add chocolate cream, whipped cream, or pour some sherbet over it. Very tasty!

I mixed the batch, poured it into a pan, and it baked beautifully. But when I took it out, it seemed kind of... short. This thing usually rises quite a lot. I kept wondering what could the reason be... until I saw an unopened package of baking powder. Doh! Okay, I say. No matter, I won't offer this to the guests. We'll take a slice and a glass of milk and have it for breakfast. I'll make another one, and this time I'll use ground nuts (I had added cocoa to the last one).

So I prepare another mixture, this time making sure to add all the ingredients. I put it into the oven, at 200°C. I go upstairs to check my mail, because I'm expecting an important business-related e-mail. Unfortunately, the TV is on. And it's tuned into Discovery Science, where Morgan Freeman is hosting a cool show I had never seen before. In tonight's episode, they are talking about dark matter, and the creation of the Universe, and they're showing this cool simulator that has a creation model running, and I sit down to take a peek.

o_O

Half an hour later - I guess - my dad starts shouting "Something's burning!!"

O_O

I run downstairs, and sure enough - it's my cake. It didn't burn completely, just the top layer, but it's enough to make me wary of trying to make another one tonight.

So, how was your day?

Comments

[dixid.livejournal.com]

In the past week I've ruined banana bread, a pineapple-upside down cake, and snickerdoodles. The cake was actually very yummy, you just had to eat it with a spoon. The cookies are as flat as paper due to using old cream of tartar, and I have no idea what happened with the banana bread. I'll blame that on trying a new recipe.

Just slice the top off the cake and frost it, no one will notice. Hope your next attempt is trouble free.

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Good thing you didn't have to throw it away. We managed to salvage the second cake by frosting it like you suggested, and we had the first one for breakfast. It was delicious. :) Next time I'll pay close attention to what I'm doing and won't let myself be distracted by the shiny. :)

[slavelabour.livejournal.com]

Omg, after all your trouble and it burnt! I can sympathise. Discovery Science is an awesome channel, everything is so interesting!

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

Yes! I can laugh about it now, but I was quite upset after it happened.

:sigh: Plus they had Morgan Freeman as a host. That man makes my insides melt.

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

***groans***
At least your father alerted you
Just think had he not, but how disappointing.........................
I am so inept in the kitchen that things like this happen all the time to me
and it is particularly appalling when I am preparing something for company etc. I mean why can't it happen when it is a daily thing??
:D

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

I shudder to think what could have happened had he not been downstairs but outside. I would have blissfully watched the show, unaware of what was going on downstairs. I have now been officially banned from setting foot in the kitchen unsupervised.

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

blissfully watched the show, unaware of what was going on downstairs.

***NODS***
e.g. one time my friend was telling me about her mother who put a fry pan on the stove with A LOT of grease and then went outside to try to find the cat....................
The place was really smoking and almost burned down................
She said it was why she was so worried when she left her mother's house and went home....................