The Fickle Nature Of Cake!! Grrr!!
Decorating By Irish_Sue Updated 23 Sep 2011 , 9:53pm by Irish_Sue
So today I had an unexpected day off my 'real' work so I decided to have a bit of a baking session and make a birthday cake for a friend and a couple of other cakes for friends. All recipes I know, have done before and could make with my eyes shut - famous last words!!!
Two chocolate cakes - exactly the same recipe, exactly the same methods, exactly the same ingredients, exactly the same oven, exactly the same temperature - two completely different cakes
Pineapple drizzle cake, made this loads and didn't do anything different from what I normally do but the cake doesn't look like it normally does (at least it tastes as good as it normally does)
Chocolate cup cakes with white chocolate and strawberry buttercream - well these look like the should, just hoping my flatmate tells me they taste good when he comes back!!
Cake science - it is enough to drive anyone bonkers
possibly your element in your oven is going bad... fluctuations in heat will mess up an otherwise perfect combination.
That was my first thought, but not the case - have had it checked. I am going to just put it down to the being one of those things. It is more likely 'user error' and something I have done without realising it.
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