i hate failing a cake

[tsuki_no_bara]

so tomorrow is the first night of passover, and my parents are having eighteen people for the seder. O.O i offered to make a flourless chocolate bundt cake, because every year we should have a flourless chocolate bundt cake so i can have it for breakfast. i made it last year and it was lighter than i was used to - my mom's version is denser and

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[wesleysgirl]

Aw, I'm sorry about the cake difficulty. Sometimes they just really want to stay in the pan. It LOVED THE PAN.

[tsuki_no_bara]

but i would've loved to eat it! i'm still so annoyed.

[jola]

can you cut up the leftover pieces and make a triffle-like thing? like do cake crumbles in cups and layer with fruit or jam or something? or pudding? Sorry, not sure how to make it passover-appropriate but that's when i do when my cakes fail.

wow, finally a chance to use my cake icon!

[donutsweeper]

Aww, sorry about the cake. I've never tried to make one of those. I stick with flourless peanutbutter cookies and maztoh toffee usually. Every few years I decide to be adventurous and try something new and I always wind up going back to the old standbys.

[giogio]

Oh, you can probably answer a marketing question for me: could I market items that are made with non-grass based flours as suitable for passover? E.g. if I have a chocolate sponge cake where the starch component is potato starch? I found wikipedia a bit confusing on the topic, since they only said that yeast had to be removed and baking powder and baking soda were fine and cake usually doesn't involve yeast, so I'm not sure how that then fits in with flourless... excuse my cultural ignorance.

[tsuki_no_bara]

you also can't have corn starch, corn syrup, or anything corn. potato starch is totally cool, tho. i'm not 100% sure what kind of flour is ok, aside from matzo meal or the flour they use for matzo, which i think is made from unsprouted wheat. (i've seen spelt matzo, which i'm pretty sure is for the gluten sensitive/intolerant, but i don't know how common that is.) it's not just yeast/leavening that's forbidden - it's a whole bunch of things. corn, wheat, rice, soybeans - is there such a thing as soybean flour? - chickpeas, peanuts. if you're trying to market passover-safe baked goods, i'd say stick with flourless to be on the safe side.

[giogio]

There is such a thing as soybean flour, but I don't use it :p

I actually had a very nice lady buy a bag each of my buckwheat and my quinoa granolas on Wednesday, because it is Passover and she was rather missing her cereals!

[bleedtoblue]

This is why I make sheet cakes, I never have to worry about getting it out ot the pan. I'm sorry your cake didn't cooperate! I have to make one next weekend, can't make a sheet cake and maybe I will remember to make it far enough in advance!