What are you baking?

[Biddlybee]

Help me out urban... I want to make a nice moist vanilla sponge, but not a sandwich.

Most recipes out there seem to be for two tins not one. Is there an easy way to adjust the cooking time? Or does anyone have a tried and tested lush sponge recipe which isn't baked in two tins?

 

[BoatieBird]

Help me out urban... I want to make a nice moist vanilla sponge, but not a sandwich.

Most recipes out there seem to be for two tins not one. Is there an easy way to adjust the cooking time? Or does anyone have a tried and tested lush sponge recipe which isn't baked in two tins?

How about a maderia cake? Not as fluffy as a standard sponge, but very moist.
Madeira cake

 

[polly]

Help me out urban... I want to make a nice moist vanilla sponge, but not a sandwich.

Most recipes out there seem to be for two tins not one. Is there an easy way to adjust the cooking time? Or does anyone have a tried and tested lush sponge recipe which isn't baked in two tins?

My mum uses her mum's recipe, which is: weigh two or three eggs, then use that quantity of flour, sugar and butter. It usually comes out fine and moist when I do it, but nothing amazingly special.

 

[Biddlybee]

My mum uses her mum's recipe, which is: weigh two or three eggs, then use that quantity of flour, sugar and butter. It usually comes out fine and moist when I do it, but nothing amazingly special.

Not sure I can wing it with a recipe like that

How about a maderia cake? Not as fluffy as a standard sponge, but very moist.
Madeira cake

Bit too dense I think.

 

[polly]

Not sure I can wing it with a recipe like that

It's been handed down through the generations Or it might be Delia Smith - my mum has a habit of lying about family recipes. Either way, it's a perfectly functional vanilla sponge recipe Is it squidge's birthday soon??

 

[purenarcotic]

It's a pretty standard method of doing a sponge to weigh the egg then put in the same weight of sugar, flour and butter.

Mary Berry might be one to look up.

 

[Biddlybee]

Aye, just not sure about temp and time.

I'm wondering if lemon drizzle without the lemon and drizzle would work?

I'll get out my Mary Berry book

 

[purenarcotic]

I miss baking, our oven leans to one side so the mixture slides to one side of the tin and is flat as a pancake.

 

[Biddlybee]

It's been handed down through the generations Or it might be Delia Smith - my mum has a habit of lying about family recipes. Either way, it's a perfectly functional vanilla sponge recipe Is it squidge's birthday soon??

I'm not dissing your recipe but how hot should the oven be and how long do you cook it?

Aye, couple of months, but want to try it if it's a recipe I've never made.

 

[Biddlybee]

I miss baking, our oven leans to one side so the mixture slides to one side of the tin and is flat as a pancake.

Can you prop it up from the bottom to level it?

 

[polly]

I'm not dissing your recipe but how hot should the oven be and how long do you cook it?

Aye, couple of months, but want to try it if it's a recipe I've never made.

Erm, I dunno - I do it at about 200 I think. Maybe if your oven isn't a pile of shit (as mine is) do it at 180ish? And until it looks done and a skewer comes out of it clean

 

[Biddlybee]

Erm, I dunno - I do it at about 200 I think. Maybe if your oven isn't a pile of shit (as mine is) do it at 180ish? And until it looks done and a skewer comes out of it clean

...that's the winging it I fuck up on

I'll give it a go, start with half hour

Next week though. This week is chocolate guinness cake

 

[Rebelda]

Aye, just not sure about temp and time.

I'm wondering if lemon drizzle without the lemon and drizzle would work?

I'll get out my Mary Berry book

IME lemon drizzle cakes, without the drizzle, are kind of tasteless and dry. Sawdusty. A single layer sponge cake in a 20-23inch round tin (I would make a victoria sponge recipe and put it all in one deep tin) should take 35-45 mins at 180C. I'd peek after 30 and prod after 35.

 

[Biddlybee]

So I did a trial run last night... 170C for 30 mins. Was nice and fluffy, but a bit overdone round the edge I think. What's better to do: lower the temp or less time?

 

[Saffy]

I tend to bake at gas mark 4 and check at 20 mins.

 

[Biddlybee]

What's that on a fan oven? *googles*

 

[Saffy]

About 180 I think.

 

[purenarcotic]

Can you prop it up from the bottom to level it?

The oven? No, unfortunately. Could probably try and prop the tins up though.

 

[Rebelda]

I have some really lacklustre, verging on unpleasant pears here. Will baking improve them, or will I end up with a lacklustre, verging on unpleasant cake?

 

[Biddlybee]

Pear butter?

 

[BoatieBird]

Going to make some pecan blondies today, and also a coffee & walnut cake as requested by the bloke.
This may lead to too much cake
Will the blondies (aka brownies but with white chocolate) freeze OK?

 

[sheothebudworths]

Will the blondies (aka brownies but with white chocolate) freeze OK?

I've not found a cake so far that doesn't freeze well, with the exception maybe of any that have banana in them - I reckon blondies would be fine though

It's my daughter's birthday today and we went for the same thing we made for my son's, last year, cos they were so nice - although this time we had the piping set she got herself me for Christmas.
Hers was the one in the middle, with *everything* on it

 

[RubyToogood]

I have some really lacklustre, verging on unpleasant pears here. Will baking improve them, or will I end up with a lacklustre, verging on unpleasant cake?

Pears are such a lottery

 

[Orang Utan]

I've not found a cake so far that doesn't freeze well, with the exception maybe of any that have banana in them - I reckon blondies would be fine though

It's my daughter's birthday today and we went for the same thing we made for my son's, last year, cos they were so nice - although this time we had the piping set she got herself me for Christmas.
Hers was the one in the middle, with *everything* on it

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makes me think of dodgems!

 

[BoatieBird]

The coffee and walnut cake turned out well


The filling/topping is whipped double cream, coffee and a little icing sugar. So much nicer than buttercream imo.

 

[StoneRoad]

not a cake, but I baked some pan haggerty for my elderly father yesterday ...

 

[Saffy]

The coffee and walnut cake turned out well
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The filling/topping is whipped double cream, coffee and a little icing sugar. So much nicer than buttercream imo.

Ohh that looks good. I'll have to try that out instead of buttercream. It can be too sweet sometimes and definitely needs a cup of tea to help it down.

 

[Pingu]

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[Pingu]

sry bit of a breaking bad marathon past couple of days

 

[RubyToogood]

The coffee and walnut cake turned out well
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The filling/topping is whipped double cream, coffee and a little icing sugar. So much nicer than buttercream imo.

I liked this and then unliked it because no buttercream