Cake 17, Baked Pasta Bake Cake

Since we had masses of leftover pasta from last night, I decided it'd be fun to make it into a cake, and it worked really well. I wish I'd made twice as much.

Baked Pasta Bake Cake

1/2 onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, diced
oil
10 mushrooms (button)
1/2 capsicum
1 can sweetcorn
leftover pasta and sauce
4 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 cup grated cheese
salt and pepper

Preheat oven to 180 C. Heat oil in a pan, and fry onion and garlic. Add mushrooms and capsicum, and cook until softened. Add corn, and continue to cook for a few minutes. Take off heat and mix through pasta (ours had a tomatoey/curry sauce already on it). Put into a greased cake tin.
In a bowl, combine eggs and milk. Season, and pour over the mix in the cake tin. Sprinkle cheese on top, and bake for about half an hour or until browned on top and hot the whole way through. Allow to cool in the tin, then slice.

"Cake" 10: the appropriation of cheese muffins

So my flatmate offered his cheese muffins as an antidote to cake. I was muchly pleased. The recipe is from "Jenn's Baking Chamber" (um...), but they were pretty nice. He altered the recipe a bit, since it was deemed "too strange".

Cheese Muffins

2 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar (changed to 1/6 cup)
2 tsp baking powder (oh dear, he asked me before if I thought it was unreasonable that there were multiple "tablespoons" of baking powder in this mix, but I guess he misread the amount.... at any rate, the one I ate tasted fine)
1/2 tsp baking powder (omitted entirely)
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup milk (changed to 1 cup)
2 Tb sour cream (omitted)
1/3 cup melted and cooled butter (changed to oil instead of butter)
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 1/2 cups grated cheese,  plus 1/4 cup for "garnish"

Preheat oven to 350 F (176.6666 C), and grease a 12-muffin tin. Combine all dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, combine all the other ingredients apart from the cheese. Mix the wet into the dry, don't over mix. Add cheese, and gently fold in.

Bake 15-20 mins, or until lightly golden. Sprinkle extra cheese on top of hot muffins as soon as you take them out of the oven.

They were pretty tasty, slightly sweet though (I suspect the amount of sugar has been altered in light of this). Not bad for cheese muffins.... I actually used to loathe savoury muffins, so these ones are pretty good considering.