Baking quick questions

zippychick

well done, they look b rill!

JulieGeorgiana

My son liked them...! Next time I will be more careful with the ingredients... and maybe they will look like the picture!

pink_numbers

It's ok to add additional flour to the mix, as long as you then rest the dough again. The resting relaxes the gluten.

JulieGeorgiana

pink_numbers wrote: »

It's ok to add additional flour to the mix, as long as you then rest the dough again. The resting relaxes the gluten.

Thank Pink! That explains why the first batch (I added flour and rested) turned out well... and the second batch (I added flour and just baked) did not turn out so well

shjo558

Yikes,

Just put a 4 egg sponge in the oven. Supposed to be a lemon drizzle cake cooked in a 20cm tin.

I now realised it's in a 15cm tin and it's hubbling and bubbling all over the oven.

I've put a tray in the oven to catch the spillage but now don't know how long to cook it for.

The recipe was 180 for an hour?

Any ideas or should I just keep an eye on it?

jackieglasgow

Just watch it, you picked the right night for a hubble bubble cake

shjo558

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Just watch it, you picked the right night for a hubble bubble cake

:rotfl:

Hopefully I can get it cleaned up before DH awakes from his evening nap or he'll be saying "oh another cooking disaster, what went wrong this time":mad:

McKneff

turn the oven down a bit, about 15 degrees, it may take longer, because its thicker. But check it after an hour.

Tomorrow, if you cant salvage it as a cake, spread it with lemon curd, jam or syrup and have it with custard, ensuring that you pour
the custard over it. lol.

suzybloo

Must be something in the air as the same thing happened today with my eve's pudding!!! I put my flan dish filled 3/4 with apples then a sponge mixture on top onto the baking sheet stuck it in the oven, and forgot it wasnt the usual dish I use, it was about half an inch shallower, so all over the baking sheet was the sponge mix. Once the pudding was cooked I scraped the sponge off the tray, it was slightly burnt though, made home made custard and we had that for pudding, and put the eves pudding in the freezer for another night!! - never mentioning my disaster to anyone!;)

I would turn the oven down slightly too, and bake it an extra 5-8 mins approx.

shjo558

Oh dear, it's out of the oven and was looking a bit like a mushroom.

However, I removed it from the tin, made up the lemon icing.....tipped it on the cake. The icing ran away off the cake only leaving behind the lumps of icing sugar that I hadn't blended in properly........

Tastes nice but look like it has small pox..........