How do I bake a cake in my breadmaker?

SoScrooge

I made some carrot cake in my BM - recipe came with the machine.

The cake did not rise at all. Is it normal?

My BM is 1kg capacity, when I put all ingredients in, it only took about 6cm (2.5 inches) depth.

Does anyone know if carrot cakes rise at all?

SoScrooge

calling all BM users....

wizzkid_3

Any chance of letting some of us try your recipe? I don't mind being a 'tester'! I have not tried a cake yet, though I believe my BM has a program for it.

SoScrooge

here we go...
Use Quick Setting

Vegitable oil 100ml
Eggs 2
Soft brown sugar 175g (used white sugar)
Grated carrots 200g
Walnuts, chopped 50g
Sultanas 100g (used Sainsbury’s value mixed fruit)
Ground nutmeg ½ tsp (put mixed spices for cakes)
Ground cinnamon 1tsp (put mixed spices for cakes)
Wholemeal self raising flour 220g

It came out quite tasty, but I wish it was a bit more of it :rolleyes:

wizzkid_3

Ok will do this once my bread has finished.

wizzkid_3

Well, that was a disaster! I checked out my other recipes for CC and the one you gave looks similar, but it is as if there is some vital ingredient missing! It is like a huge carrot cake soft cookie! Tastes nice, but I don't think I will repeat the experience. I wonder if anyone else will stop by and give us some advice........

megasaver

Hi Soscrooge and Wizzkid, sorry to hear about the carrot cake disaster! I am no expert but in my BM manual it tells you to mix all cake ingredients outside the bm and just use the machine for the baking bit - could that be it? Apart from that the recipe looks very good. HTH

meag xx

wizzkid_3

I did change things a little bit, I mixed in the bm until it was all mixed up and then put it on to bake as I wondered if the other programs mixed it too much or let it sit for too long before cooking so that the air 'went off'.

SoScrooge

I have an idea. I will try adding some (1/2 tsp) of baking soda with a drop of vinigar. My sis suggested it should fluff things up a bit. She also mentioned that I can put lemon juce instead of vinigar.

SoScrooge

Another attempt... separated the eggs and beat the whites up. Also put 1/2tsp of baking soda with a few drops of rasberry vinegar to disolve it.

Mixed all separatly and used BM only to bake.

It started rising, and I saw some pops of air in the mixture. But... I left it in the tin overnight, and in the moring it was all flat again. :rolleyes:

But it tastes better - more moist.

Next I will try to increase soda and vinegar to 1tsp and see what happens.

Maybe the mixture is too heavy to be lifted up? To much carrots or raisins?

comping_cat

Dont know if this will help, as my BM doesnt have a recipe for carrot cake, but does for standard cake and fruit cake.
It says to mix the wet ingredients together (both types of cake have 2 tsps of lemon juice), then mix the dried ingredients (again, both use 2 tsp of baking powder), then combine both before pouring into the BM. Maybe trying this, and the lemon juice and baking powder might help your carrot cake to rise!!!!