I usually taste my cake batter. I know the dangers...raw egg and all that but my thought has always been, if the batter tastes good the cake will too. Well, this time I didn't do that. I have IC (Interstitial cystitis) and chocolate is a trigger for flare-ups of the condition. Nasty, nasty. So, at this point in time I've been flaring for the past two weeks . I have a cake due on Wed. so I went ahead and made it, double recipe. I also had a migraine so I took my migraine meds, which also help with IC pain. Long story short, I only added one recipe's worth of sugar. Baked away and made a few cupcakes with the left over batter. Took a tiny taste of one and , not so sweet. Rather salty actually. So, I'll have to do the whole thing over....tomorrow. Moral of the story...don't cook while on migraine meds & when recipe accuracy is important , and live on the wild side, when in doubt, taste, just a little.

I totally am a taster too! I taste everything I make whether it's something I'm taking to a potluck, making for just us or cake batter. I wouldn't want to serve something unless I knew it tasted ok. Maybe I'm paranoid! LOL!

Sorry about your migraine and IC. I hope you feel better soon! Your avatar picture is adorable!

Oh No! I'm so sorry! I too just went through a long battle of re-baking and it was pain! I did somehting similar about 4 months back though...I promised my children I'd make them a pumpkin pie. Mixed everything up, popped it in the oven and remembered an hour later I forgot the sugar! You can imagine the words I had to hold back in front of my kids!

I am a batter taster too. Cookie dough, pancake batter, cake batter, bread dough.. I like it all.

Sorry you have to re-bake all of that.. ((hugs))

What a bummer for you on the cakes and the medical issues. I get migraines too, but that on top of IC!

Anyway, I used to a taster too until I noticed how batter looked when an ingredient such as sugar was missing or in the wrong proportion. Since the sugar dissolves, it makes that batter a little bit softer, or more "liquid". If your batter seems more stiff than usual, check your ingredients and retrace your steps. If you're still not sure, then taste it. Look at your batter of cakes you KNOW is properly mixed as a reference.

This has saved me a lot of calories and other problems. I hope it works for you or anyone else as well.

Michele

I especially love to taste the batter on new recipes as I agree that if the batter tastes good the cakes will also.

I feel sorry for both of you, PennySue and yummymummy. What a PITA! Hope the second batch made up for the hassle by turning out extra tasty!

i taste my batter all the time. the one habit i have that i actually like.

Second try is going much, much better! Migraine is gone today and the IC flare is so much better at the moment. God is soooo good!
And...I did taste the batter this time, just a tiny bit. Thank you all for the kind words of encouragement! This is supposted to be a suitcase cake. We'll see....if it comes out ok, I'll post it.
xoxo

For any of you who are still interested...here is the cake. It didn't make it to the suitcase stage. The fondant and I had a bit of a battle and the fondant won. Oh well, I tried to fix the icing as best I could. The travel stickers helped hide some of the places I just couldn't smooth. I actually like the way it came out. Thought it looked sort of rustic Hawaiian, if there is such a thing.

Nice job on that cake! Yes, it does sort of look 'rustic Hawaiian'. Cool!

Good save on the cake, sorry you had to re-bake. I love the way it looks.

Oh and Wgoat5...I love batter. I prefer it over the cake itself. I even will eat bread dough. However, I don't like the cream in oreos either. See jkalmans not the only weird-o.

I bake chocolate chip cookies, but I don't eat them after they're baked. Only dough.

Ooooh, you don't know what you're missing. Baked chocolate chip cookies when they're all ooey-gooey and melty are the best!!

10 years on the hips for 2 minutes on the lips LOOL

At this point I may as well enjoy an hour on the lips as these hips have had problems for much longer than 10 years!!! They ain't goin' nowhere! lol I used to think that that would be a good thing when I had kids......three c-sections later.........nope, they're big for no good reason at all. lol

Pass the batter with the chocolate chips, please!

LMAO Grace!!!!

You have me rolling!

Well, on the rare occasion I eat "baked" choco chip cookies, they're basically warm dough... Heh... Definitely wouldn't pass the Cookie Challenge on Food Network! Apparently cookies are supposed to be crunchy. No thanks...

The comment about hips and kids... *giggle*

Hey, at least Alton knows that not all people like their cookies the same way. On his show he gave examples of how to bake crunchy outer/soft inner cookies, and chewy cookies, and firmer cookies and the like. Different variations for different tastes. What a guy!

LMAO Penny LOL

Ya gotta love technology!