Adventures in baking

[boyofbadgers]

Note to self: in future, if cake mixture looks too runny to be put into loose bottomed tin, go with first instinct and line tin first. Do not blithely pour mixture into tin, place into oven and then panic five mins later when smell of semi-burnt cake alerts you to leaking cake hitting oven bottom

Comments

[boyofbadgers]

It would appear so!

Despite being an ok cook, I can still get anxious when doing fairly routine things in the kitchen, as katstevens and atommickbrane can testify. Baking is very much not a routine thing and so I'm liable to fuss about it far more than is strictly necessary or helpful.

[carsmilesteve]

baking is science not cookery ;)

[boyofbadgers]

Saying things like that only adds to the anxiety! I may be good at sciencey stuff generally, but I was always rub at chemistry practicals.

[pippaalice]

hurrah!

[marnameow]

Marna's guide to baking: when in doubt, add more booze! (Actually, this is not true most of the time.)

I am always a bit afeared of the loose-bottom tins.

[boyofbadgers]

I think that would have been absolutely the worst thing to do in the circs! If it had been a fruitcake, OTOH...

[marnameow]

If the cake isn't a sensible place to put the booze, you should put it in the Rick instead!

[boyofbadgers]

An excellent plan.

Oh, and many happy returns of the day!