But it wasn't til we pulled the case off one that we realised how horrible they really are. I don't know what recipe she used, but I don't think this should be replicated.
She also made some biscuits. I iced the green ones.
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Friday, March 25, 2011
Cake 33, Nasty Cupcake Things
So my sister did some baking today, and I encouraged her to use up some of the 1kg bag of imitation m&ms I have. She made a chocolate cake mix, then stirred them in. They looked fine when they came out of the oven...
But it wasn't til we pulled the case off one that we realised how horrible they really are. I don't know what recipe she used, but I don't think this should be replicated.
(I had to make the picture giant, it's just so grotesque)
She also made some biscuits. I iced the green ones.
But it wasn't til we pulled the case off one that we realised how horrible they really are. I don't know what recipe she used, but I don't think this should be replicated.
She also made some biscuits. I iced the green ones.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Cake 8, a disappointing coffee cake
I was sickly for a few days, and decided it would be unwise to make cakes in my condition. I did manage to make two in between then and now (I can't remember the dates, so it'll have to stay vague and mysterious). I'm going to post them in two separate blogs, because I did make them on different days.
I made this coffee cake late at night (maybe around midnight), then iced it the next day. Sam very charitably said it looked like a baby had puked on it, and I guess that's what you get when icing is too runny. The cake didn't taste enough like coffee, but I couldn't find what "Edmond's Food For Flatters" describes as "coffee and chickory essence" in the supermarket, so had to settle for strong filter coffee and very little milk. The icing was a bit stronger, but still looked pukey. To compensate, I iced on "25th Nov", and at least now I know what date I made that cake on.
Oh yeah, and orcon denied us internet for a few days, which is why I'm posting all these now.
Coffee Cake
250g butter, softened
1 1/2 cups caster sugar (I never have caster sugar)
3 eggs
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 Tbs coffee and chickory essence
3/4 cup milk (I basically used 3/4 cup of strong milky coffee)
Preheat oven to 180 C and line a regular cake tin. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Sift together flour and baking powder. Combine essence and milk. Fold dry ingredients and milk alternately into butter mixture.
Bake 50-55 mins.
Coffee Icing
My usual method: put a pile of icing sugar in a bowl and add liquid (in this case coffee) until desired viscosity is reached.
Maybe "food for flatters" is just a sneaky way of saying "average food", because frankly, anything is better than beef noodles and baked beans.
I made this coffee cake late at night (maybe around midnight), then iced it the next day. Sam very charitably said it looked like a baby had puked on it, and I guess that's what you get when icing is too runny. The cake didn't taste enough like coffee, but I couldn't find what "Edmond's Food For Flatters" describes as "coffee and chickory essence" in the supermarket, so had to settle for strong filter coffee and very little milk. The icing was a bit stronger, but still looked pukey. To compensate, I iced on "25th Nov", and at least now I know what date I made that cake on.
Oh yeah, and orcon denied us internet for a few days, which is why I'm posting all these now.
Coffee Cake
250g butter, softened
1 1/2 cups caster sugar (I never have caster sugar)
3 eggs
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 Tbs coffee and chickory essence
3/4 cup milk (I basically used 3/4 cup of strong milky coffee)
Preheat oven to 180 C and line a regular cake tin. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Sift together flour and baking powder. Combine essence and milk. Fold dry ingredients and milk alternately into butter mixture.
Bake 50-55 mins.
Coffee Icing
My usual method: put a pile of icing sugar in a bowl and add liquid (in this case coffee) until desired viscosity is reached.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Cakes 2 and 3-ish, Day 3
Since I didn't really make a cake on the day before my birthday, I decided I would make two today. Which I kind of did.... I split a sponge cake batter into 2 cake tins :) However, it was a bit of a disaster cake. I've never made a good sponge, and despite borrowing a beatermix for the occasion, it was still a big mess.
First mistake: overcooking the sponge. It seemed so soft in the oven.... but I think it was meant to be...
Second mistake: lazy/bad icing. The pictures say it all.
It didn't even taste that great - it was all dry and chewy. Anyhow, I'll put the recipe up. It's from Jo Seagar's "All Things Nice" cookbook (which is basically a massive ad for Chelsea Sugar).
Sponge Cake
4 large eggs, separated (room temp)
3/4 cup sugar (Chelsea, of course)
3/4 cup cornflour (I had to do half regular flour and half custard powder, since I didn't have any cornflour)
2 Tb custard powder
3 tsp baking powder
Preheat oven to 180 C. Grease two 23cm cake tins, line with baking paper.
Beat egg whites until stiff, then slowly add the sugar and beat until stiff and glossy.
Add the yolks one at a time, and mix each in well.
In a separate bowl, sift together the cornflour, custard powder and baking powder.
Gently fold the dry ingredients into the egg mixture, using a metal spoon (not sure why).
Pour half mixture into each tin and bake for 15-20 mins without opening the oven door.
When cooked, the cakes should shrink slightly from the sides of the tins, and spring back when touched gently.
Cool for 10 mins in the tin, then turn onto a wire rack covered with a teatowel, so the rack doesn't leave an imprint on the cakes.
Jo suggests serving with whipped cream and strawberries, but I ended up icing mine. I wanted a typewriter cake. It was meant to be red.... but turned out pink. So I wrote "HAPPY METHDAY BROSE" on the pebbles/buttons, and tried to draw a meth pipe... which ended up looking too phallic, so Lauren fixed it by turning it into a massive purply smudge. Here are the pics... it looks... cute? In a kind of messy and amateurish way...
First mistake: overcooking the sponge. It seemed so soft in the oven.... but I think it was meant to be...
Second mistake: lazy/bad icing. The pictures say it all.
It didn't even taste that great - it was all dry and chewy. Anyhow, I'll put the recipe up. It's from Jo Seagar's "All Things Nice" cookbook (which is basically a massive ad for Chelsea Sugar).
Sponge Cake
4 large eggs, separated (room temp)
3/4 cup sugar (Chelsea, of course)
3/4 cup cornflour (I had to do half regular flour and half custard powder, since I didn't have any cornflour)
2 Tb custard powder
3 tsp baking powder
Preheat oven to 180 C. Grease two 23cm cake tins, line with baking paper.
Beat egg whites until stiff, then slowly add the sugar and beat until stiff and glossy.
Add the yolks one at a time, and mix each in well.
In a separate bowl, sift together the cornflour, custard powder and baking powder.
Gently fold the dry ingredients into the egg mixture, using a metal spoon (not sure why).
Pour half mixture into each tin and bake for 15-20 mins without opening the oven door.
When cooked, the cakes should shrink slightly from the sides of the tins, and spring back when touched gently.
Cool for 10 mins in the tin, then turn onto a wire rack covered with a teatowel, so the rack doesn't leave an imprint on the cakes.
Jo suggests serving with whipped cream and strawberries, but I ended up icing mine. I wanted a typewriter cake. It was meant to be red.... but turned out pink. So I wrote "HAPPY METHDAY BROSE" on the pebbles/buttons, and tried to draw a meth pipe... which ended up looking too phallic, so Lauren fixed it by turning it into a massive purply smudge. Here are the pics... it looks... cute? In a kind of messy and amateurish way...
Maybe I'll have more success with my next cake...
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