My Cake tastes really really really bad. How?

[madzone]

Was the flour off? When flour goes off it smells like speed.

 

[strung out]

This from the man who was saying yesterday "I'm the only person I know who can make a cake without a recipe". It was your hubris that did for you I'm afraid.

this. the only logical explanation is that you cursed yourself.

 

[fen_boy]

Just sticking chocolate it doesn't work - it splits into, basically, fat and bitter

This is the correct answer, like what I said too.

 

[Callie]

Sounds like the chocolate has separated into solids and fats 'cos it's got too hot. It happens to my wife all the time when she makes cakes. She's from the 'it'll probably be alright' school of baking.

Here's an example of a birthday cake she cooked for me where she baked it in the wrong size tin and then the chocolate icing split. It was entirely inedible.
The book in the background shows what it should have looked like.

Note the congealed fat on the plate edge.

I like the fact it still got candles put in it. And someone has had a slice

 

[fen_boy]

I like the fact it still got candles put in it. And someone has had a slice

That was me. I felt sorry for her tbh.

 

[Callie]

(((tummy)))

 

[Callum91]

Sounds like the chocolate has separated into solids and fats 'cos it's got too hot. It happens to my wife all the time when she makes cakes. She's from the 'it'll probably be alright' school of baking.

Here's an example of a birthday cake she cooked for me where she baked it in the wrong size tin and then the chocolate icing split. It was entirely inedible.
The book in the background shows what it should have looked like.

Note the congealed fat on the plate edge.

2 girls 1 cake

 

[strung out]

This is the correct answer, like what I said too.

no, it was the curse what did it

 

[AnnaKarpik]

It would if there was no sugar at all... did you replace all the sugar?

This is what I'm thinking. The one thing I think I know about making cakes is don't mess with the proportions of sugar to fat to eggs to flour. You can add stuff but never take any away.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

This from the man who was saying yesterday "I'm the only person I know who can make a cake without a recipe". It was your hubris that did for you I'm afraid.

I know I know.

Oh well.

Anyway I have just put in some mini choc chip cakes so lets see if they work. This time I have done 'exactly' the same weight of everything (weighing out to the eggs).
My daughter seemed to enjoy helping me make them but inexplicably didn't like the cake mix and didn't want to lick the bowl.

 

[gaijingirl]

Inspired (oddly) by this thread, I have just chanced some lemon and almond muffins. It's a new oven so this is it's virgin outing!!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Good news cake thread followers. The cup cakes are awesome.

 

[Callie]

Does the small one approve though?

 

[gaijingirl]

Inspired (oddly) by this thread, I have just chanced some lemon and almond muffins. It's a new oven so this is it's virgin outing!!

big mistake... Thanks Atomic Suplex...

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Does the small one approve though?

Very much so. She really enjoyed helping out and seems to like the cakes (but not so much that I should be worried)

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

big mistake... Thanks Atomic Suplex...

Didn't work out well then? Have you got pics?

 

[gaijingirl]

Didn't work out well then? Have you got pics?

They look great but I substituted corn oil for veg oil (it said it was ok on t'internet) and they have a really odd taste. I hope this isn't a taste of things to come.

Dunno whether to try cooking a tart now or just give up.

 

[Cid]

That looks absolutely rank...

(@ fen_boy)

 

[RubyToogood]

What did you grease the tin with? I used some vegetable oil that had gone rancid once and it wasn't nice.

 

[fen_boy]

Here, on the other hand, is a cake that I made for my eldest's birthday which was utterly delicious and demonstrates perfectly made chocolate icing.

 

[fen_boy]

Message from fen_wife while fen_boy is out of the room: it doesn't 'happen all the time when I make cakes', thanks

 

[moose]

Maybe your cakes are always shite but she's too polite to say That's why she runs round with a box on her head.

 

[Callie]

AND it has dinosaurs!!! yay!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Maybe your cakes are always shite but she's too polite to say That's why she runs round with a box on her head.

How rude. This is only her third ever cake. She had a bite of cake on her 1st birthday, sad no real problem eating the puke cake and wanted more of my latest creation tonight (but was not allowed).

I think I might send that box clip in to You have been framed.