What are you baking?
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BoatieBird
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I think I might stop doing fancy nonsense after the birthday. They just don't taste goodIt might look fun but tasting too sweet and gloopy and blah rather defeats the object
IME kids love sweet and gloopy
5t3IIa
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Phwoar
BlueSquareThing
With chips
I was just thinking, fancy but I can feel that on my teeth from here.I think I might stop doing fancy nonsense after the birthday. They just don't taste good
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
This was supposed to be a gluten free multi grain loaf, from a reduced M&S packet mix.
I think the even the pigeons may sneer at it
I think the even the pigeons may sneer at it
polly
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I think I might stop doing fancy nonsense after the birthday. They just don't taste good
Yeah, I came to the same conclusion after my last rainbow cake. Baking has lost its way.
Looby
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Sometimes the colouring in cakes like that really messes with the flavour and probably the texture too. Maybe I need to try different types of colouring.
I haven't baked since my mega disaster that ended up being mocked on extra slice. Maybe I'll have a go for Mr Looby's birthday.
polly
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I use the mega fancy Wilton gel ones, which don't mess with the flavour (though they do make your poo look like playdoh
), but cake like that is always about looks over taste. Just bollocks, innit.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
So. I've been resisting having a go at baking cakes as frankly our waist lines don't need it. However I've got my food mixer and curiousity is getting the better of me. I quite fancy give lemon drizzle cake ago as I like it and it can bake it in my loaf tin. Does this recipe sound OK for a first go?
Mary Berry's lemon drizzle cake recipe
Mary Berry's lemon drizzle cake recipe
Boudicca
Seaside Queen
Mary is always reliable, but that's a tiny cake! I'd double the recipe if it is going in a loaf tin.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
...also 1.5 eggs will be a pita to do.
The recipe I've got in a book of hers is a round cake instead - this person gets two loaf tins out of it: Crunchy top lemon cake
The recipe I've got in a book of hers is a round cake instead - this person gets two loaf tins out of it: Crunchy top lemon cake
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Thanks. I guess a small cake is what I should aim for, but glad you pointed it out. You can always give away cake right?
Those are two very different sets of ratios and ingredients! Both from Mary as well.
Silly question, but can you substitute baking powder for bicarbonate of soda? Don't mind buying baking powder, but got bicarb in stock.
Those are two very different sets of ratios and ingredients! Both from Mary as well.
Silly question, but can you substitute baking powder for bicarbonate of soda? Don't mind buying baking powder, but got bicarb in stock.
Boudicca
Seaside Queen
Based on your picture on the breadmaking thread UnderAnOpenSky I think you have a 2lb loaf tin, so you risk making a thin flat cake.
Bicarb is an ingredient of baking powder, so not the same thing. But Mary has a thing about adding extra baking powder (i.e more than what is in self raising flour anyway) and I don't think it makes much difference.
Bicarb is an ingredient of baking powder, so not the same thing. But Mary has a thing about adding extra baking powder (i.e more than what is in self raising flour anyway) and I don't think it makes much difference.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I don't mind buying stuff, but thought it was worth checking. I've got a smaller tin, don't think I need a cake that size!
BoatieBird
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You can always give it away, but a lot of cakes freeze really well too
Something like a loaf cake can be cut into slices and frozen so you can just pull a couple of slices out at a time.
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
Yesterday I made a Dundee cake. Today I'm going to make a chocolate Guinness cake and some gingerbread with the other half of the can. I think I must want my slightly puritanical parents to be appalled when they come over for tea later I also want cake
Eta: appalled by the quantities of cake not the Guinness, I mean.
I also want cake Eta: appalled by the quantities of cake not the Guinness, I mean.
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Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
No I don't think so. I'm not that keen on icing. I do like a chocolate buttercream but that doesn't seem right on this cake. I'll have a slice and then decide
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
Not keen on icing?! Are you feeling okay?!
Icing is the best.
Icing is the best.
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
No, cake is the bestNot keen on icing?! Are you feeling okay?!
Icing is the best.
I like icing sometimes 
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I'm going to do him a pokeball patterned cake
I made this on the weekend - chocolate with Oreo buttercream.
5t3IIa
Registered User
Wow
Did you smash Oreos into butter and icing sugar?
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Wow
Yes, and some cream cheese too because it wasn't quite fattening enough
5t3IIa
Registered User
PerfectYes, and some cream cheese too because it wasn't quite fattening enough
I'd be able to tell which pokeball that is but I can't quite reach my Pokemon encyclodedia from my spot on the sofa in front of GBBO
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Lemon drizzle cake worked! Thanks for the suggestions. Was very very sweet, so will probably use less sugar in the icing next time. Glad I only baked quite a small one. Took it round to friends and it was demolished, so don't have the issue of to much cake today. Wondering what I should try next in fact.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
Is the weight of apples before or after coring etc?Let me know if this isn't clear enough and I'll type it out. On my phone so I can't tell
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It's a Mary Berry fwiw
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
If you're doing one of those cakes where you grate the apple and put a layer of it in the middle, using the apples I gave you, they're quite juicy so I recommend giving the grated apple a little squeeze before it goes into the cake. Obviously you then drink the juice.
