Cake!

[navkat]

Yes, get someone else to make you a cake. 

Ya, just told my girl how to make it. Right after the Steak.

"But why is the batter so salty?"

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Sandra Lee's Semi-Home Made Kwanzaa cake?

[The Dark Monk]

I had to look up Caster sugar. 

[AFK]

I think Caster sugar makes it easier to roll the dough.

[The Dark Monk]

I've honestly never seen it. I'm sure it does it's job well I'm just seriously amazed I saw the term "Caster sugar" and was completely stupefied. It's not even an odd ingredient. It's not like, "Add 3 deep fried Rocky Mountain Oysters."

[AFK]

 


And thus another poor pun dies a lonely death.

[The Dark Monk]

I didn't get it until you pointed it out LOL

[Freeky]

I still don't get it.

[AFK]

http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=16412291

[Freeky]

Is that what they're called? Oh.

[Triple Zero]

Does anyone else have any really simple "never fail" cake recipes?

SURPRISE CAKE:

DEFINITELY sugar + flour + butter in roughly eyeballed amounts
MAYBE a bit of water, milk or egg or maybe just the egg yolk, or baking powder
PROBABLY a bit of salt
SOMETHING of a flavouring thing such as vanilla, cinnamon, lemon or orange peel (juice does not work), chocolate bits chips chunks, candy, candied ginger, 5-spice, anise powder, extra butter, I dunno, something!1!!

Then you mix it and maybe add more butter or flour if the dough doesn't look right.

Then it goes in a cake form that should probably be buttered.

Then it goes into the oven at somewhere between 200 and 225 degrees Celsius (if your oven only does Fahrenheit you're out of luck: get a better oven). It should probably have been preheating, good that you thought about that beforehand!

And then you set an alarm for 20 minutes. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.

And then you go do something else and forget about the cake.

And then you will be surprised by a beeping sound. SURPRISE! There is a cake in the oven!

Then you check if the cake needs maybe 10 more minutes or not.

Then you let the cake cool.

And then you eat it. The other SURPRISE is that you do not know what kind of cake you're going to get before you look in your cupboards to see the sorts of things you have.

Should the cake happen to fail, write down what you did, and do something different next time.

If you don't forget about the alarm thing and don't accidentally* use something extremely gross as a flavouring there's not a lot that can go wrong.

* also not on purpose

[Freeky]

200 and 225 degrees Celsius

Lightspeed?!

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Does anyone else have any really simple "never fail" cake recipes?

SURPRISE CAKE:

DEFINITELY sugar + flour + butter in roughly eyeballed amounts
MAYBE a bit of water, milk or egg or maybe just the egg yolk, or baking powder
PROBABLY a bit of salt
SOMETHING of a flavouring thing such as vanilla, cinnamon, lemon or orange peel (juice does not work), chocolate bits chips chunks, candy, candied ginger, 5-spice, anise powder, extra butter, I dunno, something!1!!

Then you mix it and maybe add more butter or flour if the dough doesn't look right.

Then it goes in a cake form that should probably be buttered.

Then it goes into the oven at somewhere between 200 and 225 degrees Celsius (if your oven only does Fahrenheit you're out of luck: get a better oven). It should probably have been preheating, good that you thought about that beforehand!

And then you set an alarm for 20 minutes. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.

And then you go do something else and forget about the cake.

And then you will be surprised by a beeping sound. SURPRISE! There is a cake in the oven!

Then you check if the cake needs maybe 10 more minutes or not.

Then you let the cake cool.

And then you eat it. The other SURPRISE is that you do not know what kind of cake you're going to get before you look in your cupboards to see the sorts of things you have.

Should the cake happen to fail, write down what you did, and do something different next time.

If you don't forget about the alarm thing and don't accidentally* use something extremely gross as a flavouring there's not a lot that can go wrong.

* also not on purpose

Other than the Celsius part and not drinking wine while waiting for the thing to beep, that could be Justin Wilson. "Handful of dis here, summa dat...how long ya cook it? Ya cook it till it's ready!"

[The Dark Monk]

I wonder if I could make a beer cake with that