Cake!
My birthday is tomorrow, but we're having dinner with my husband's family tonight. So I baked a cake! It is almond cake, which I got from The Cake Bible.
I was extremely thankful for my mother-in-law lending me her hand mixer. It made this a lot easier. I also found that the time guideline of 50-60min in the oven was off by about half an hour. Might depend on the oven, but in mine it took a lot longer than expected. I also found that I could have probably made about twice the amount of mixture because I had plenty of room in the cake tin.
Should the cake tin be half empty when the cake has risen?
Here is a picture of my finished product! It's sitting on the rack that was a Christmas present from my husband's aunt, and I also got the cake tin from her.
I tried some of the crumbs, and it is utterly delicious!
I've also decided that, given this month's ingredient is almonds, I may hold off the "one dessert per month", given that I'm yet to find an almond recipe which isn't a dessert... See how I go.
I was extremely thankful for my mother-in-law lending me her hand mixer. It made this a lot easier. I also found that the time guideline of 50-60min in the oven was off by about half an hour. Might depend on the oven, but in mine it took a lot longer than expected. I also found that I could have probably made about twice the amount of mixture because I had plenty of room in the cake tin.
Should the cake tin be half empty when the cake has risen?
Here is a picture of my finished product! It's sitting on the rack that was a Christmas present from my husband's aunt, and I also got the cake tin from her.
I tried some of the crumbs, and it is utterly delicious!
I've also decided that, given this month's ingredient is almonds, I may hold off the "one dessert per month", given that I'm yet to find an almond recipe which isn't a dessert... See how I go.