Too Much Batter!

Decorating By Babypickles Updated 1 Aug 2010 , 8:38pm by Babypickles

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Babypickles Posted 31 Jul 2010 , 7:14pm
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Oh my goodness I have not laughed so hard in years! I am very new to this but I have had so much fun experimenting with all the recipes I have found. I made a WASC cake this morning and the recipe said it would make two 9" squares cakes, well I don't have two square pans but I do have two 9" rounds so I figured there can't be much difference. LOL Well somehow, and I still have not stopped laughing long enough to figure it out, I ended up with two 9" round, two 8" round, and a 6"round. LOL I have plenty of cake to freeze and just about as much batter on the counter and all over my shirt (I put my apron on AFTER I poured it all over me) LOL thankfully the cake tastes heavenly! But technically I only needed one 9" round to practice my frozen buttercream transfer. I am also experimenting with that today. I am hoping it turns out right but I suppose practice will make perfect! I do not want to start baking and decorating as a profession but I am having a lot of fun. I can't thank you all enough for all the information you put in to this site and the cakes you all share are incredible!

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Donnagardner Posted 31 Jul 2010 , 7:34pm
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I am glad you got a kick out of it. Laughing is good therapy. If you used the WASC that has 2 cake mixes in it that is a lot of batter and makes way more than 1 9 inch cake. You can half that and make a smaller amount also if you only need 1 cake. Wrap the other cakes in 2 or 3 layers of saran wrap and freeze them for later. They will taste just as good and you will only have to thaw them out and start to decorate. Happy caking.

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Babypickles Posted 1 Aug 2010 , 2:05am
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Thanks! I did put some of the cakes in the freezer and can play with them later. The cake I was making for my husband turned out great for a first try and he was thrilled so mission accomplished! Oh and you are right this recipe did call for two cake mixes and I was a little skeptical but I wanted to follow the recipe. The cake is delicious, I don't think I have ever tasted one quite like it.

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Ellie1985 Posted 1 Aug 2010 , 2:39am
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A bit of advise. Don't over fill your pans. I made a recipe one day and it made a lot of batter and I thought I'll just fill the pans a little fuller. BIG mistake!!! The next thing I know smoke is rolling out of my kitchen. Talk about a mess. The batter oozed over the sides of the pan, dripped all over the oven racks and I had a pool of batter burning away in the bottom. I had to wait for the oven to cool so I could clean it and was then up until 3:00a.m. having to rebake.

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PiccoloChellie Posted 1 Aug 2010 , 3:21am
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Originally Posted by Babypickles

Well somehow, and I still have not stopped laughing long enough to figure it out, I ended up with two 9" round, two 8" round, and a 6"round. LOL




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This reminds me of the first time I tried the WASC recipe. I planned for two 9" rounds and figured I'd have enough left over for a 6" round to snack on. I guess my brain wasn't engaged that day, because I *know* how much one cake mix makes, and that 2 cake mixes by themselves would have given me two (two layer) 9" rounds not counting the extra stuff.
So there I was merrily mixing and pouring my batter. Those 9" pans and the 6" pan filled up with soooo much left over in the bowl.
So I filled another 6" pan.
Still so much batter.
I busted out cupcake liners. Made a couple dozen cupcakes.

We had cake coming out our ears for weeks!!

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MessMaker Posted 1 Aug 2010 , 3:41am
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Originally Posted by Babypickles

Well somehow, and I still have not stopped laughing long enough to figure it out, I ended up with two 9" round, two 8" round, and a 6"round. LOL



icon_lol.gif
This reminds me of the first time I tried the WASC recipe. I planned for two 9" rounds and figured I'd have enough left over for a 6" round to snack on. I guess my brain wasn't engaged that day, because I *know* how much one cake mix makes, and that 2 cake mixes by themselves would have given me two (two layer) 9" rounds not counting the extra stuff.
So there I was merrily mixing and pouring my batter. Those 9" pans and the 6" pan filled up with soooo much left over in the bowl.
So I filled another 6" pan.
Still so much batter.
I busted out cupcake liners. Made a couple dozen cupcakes.

We had cake coming out our ears for weeks!!





I believe at some point that we have all done this in our earlier years, I just done it about a month ago.

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tallgood Posted 1 Aug 2010 , 3:42am
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I love to try all the recipes on this site and have started experimenting too. I've found that I can quarter the WASC recipes and put the batter into 2-6" round cake pans. Works great for us since there is only two of us around here to OD on cake!

Oh, and I use postal scales to weigh the mixes.

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aprilblack Posted 1 Aug 2010 , 4:09pm
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There is always cake balls with the leftovers.. cant go wrong with those!! icon_smile.gif

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Babypickles Posted 1 Aug 2010 , 8:38pm
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There is always cake balls with the leftovers.. cant go wrong with those!! icon_smile.gif


OH I hadn't thought of cake balls! I will have to try that recipe next.

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