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[hirez]

Cake, right? How hard could that be

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[valkyriekaren]

I'm feeling quite smug that the cake recipe I did today didn't involve creaming butter and sugar, which is indeed an arduous task!

[moral_vacuum]

Not if you use a hand mixer with the power of a small jet engine.

[sarah_mum]

Not if you get the butter out of the fridge a good hour before you start. Having a proper brown bowl with the flat bit on the side helps enormously too.
Am I odd in finding the butter mashing part rather satisfying?

[hirez]

We have one of those. Also the Blue Peter style Pyrex ones.

I'd have Cornishware and a Rayburn, but I think that's pushing the whole thing into a Baudrillardian attempt to control the passage of time.

[aeia]

You could bake me a birthday cake? :)

[hirez]

Bloody hell. You're taking your life in your hands there.

Sure. I'm generally quite good at resisting challenges, but in this case I accept.

[eljaydaly]

Cakes are hard! Really hard!

So congratulations! And now... I want cake.

[hirez]

Ta.

Glad to be of service.

[nalsa]

Photo? & well done: Instructions don't contain enough science, but enough instruction to get by, I reckon.

[hirez]

[nalsa]

Looks ok. Oven might be a bit too warm and it was checked a bit early, and that pie dish is an interesting use of containing materials, but not a bad effort. And when you have a depression like that it is perfectly acceptable to fill it with whipped cream and strawberries and claim that's the point. (Or, "it's a flan that rose too much around the edges" is always a good excuse.)

[moral_vacuum]

I just used your basic recipe in some muffin cases. Texture perfect, but the tops are a) a bit dry and b) a little withered-loking. I'm assuming the former is becasue I gave them a little to long, and the latter is because I checked too early and too often?

[bogwitch64]

Hopefully it tasted good for all your hard work. ;)

Anything is better than box cake.