Cooking for one

PasturesNew

karcher wrote: »

A 1000 for a small cake does seem a lot.

The recipe I posted said it served one which you said is double the size of yours. There's hardly anything to it so where do all the calories come from?

(all rounded for convenience)
115g flour. 364/100g. 420 cals
ditto butter. 717/100g. 820 cals
ditto sugar. 390/100g. 450 cals
2 eggies. 140 each. 280 cals.

420+820+450+280 = 1970
Mr Carrot rounds it up to about 2000.

The one I made was using weights of about 65 grams of each.

karcher

PasturesNew wrote: »

(all rounded for convenience)
115g flour. 364/100g. 420 cals
ditto butter. 717/100g. 820 cals
ditto sugar. 390/100g. 450 cals
2 eggies. 140 each. 280 cals.

420+820+450+280 = 1970
Mr Carrot rounds it up to about 2000.

The one I made was using weights of about 65 grams of each.

:eek::eek::eek:

Bloody hell..how do people eat cake, plus other food daily and not end up the size of a heffalump?

PasturesNew

karcher wrote: »

Bloody hell..how do people eat cake, plus other food daily and not end up the size of a heffalump?

There are three types of people online:
- those who stare at photos of cakes, make/eat them, get large.
- those who stare at photos of cakes and "share" the images and make out they'll make one ... hoping the others will do that and grow large.
- normal people, who don't really eat much cake at all.

karcher

PasturesNew wrote: »

There are three types of people online:
- those who stare at photos of cakes, make/eat them, get large.
- those who stare at photos of cakes and "share" the images and make out they'll make one ... hoping the others will do that and grow large.
- normal people, who don't really eat much cake at all.

I must be 'normal' then ...though that is debatable :cool:

ETA googling cake tonight was a rarity...I blame being ill!

NewShadow

karcher wrote: »

The recipe I posted said it served one which you said is double the size of yours. There's hardly anything to it so where do all the calories come from?

There's an issue with that recipe anyway - given it's supposed to be cooked in a mug (12oz volume) and the ingredients are around 15oz with no air.

The recipe looks like what I used to make as 'pound cake' - which served 4 or 5 after dinner.

4oz Butter
4oz Sugar
4oz S/R Flour
2 Medium Eggs
2-3 tbsp Jam

Mix everything but the jam together.

Put the jam in the bottom of a half litre pudding bowl and pour the mix on top.

Cover and microwave for 10 minutes.

PasturesNew

NewShadow wrote: »

There's an issue with that recipe anyway - given it's supposed to be cooked in a mug (12oz volume) and the ingredients are around 15oz with no air.

I was going to mention volume, but I figured it'd not be made in any case. Mine needed the whole jug to grow into - and settled/served at 3/4 of the jug.... and that carrot recipe's double.... so you'd need a HUGE bowl to make it.

My mix would've done 3-4 mugs worth.

I just checked - here's my level when I checked about 1 minute before it was ready. Looks like my jug's a 1-pinter.
https://s16.postimg.org/o2jwi7o6d/Jug_Pud.jpg

karcher

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was going to mention volume, but I figured it'd not be made in any case. Mine needed the whole jug to grow into - and settled/served at 3/4 of the jug.... and that carrot recipe's double.... so you'd need a HUGE bowl to make it.

My mix would've done 3-4 mugs worth.

I just checked - here's my level when I checked about 1 minute before it was ready. Looks like my jug's a 1-pinter.
https://s16.postimg.org/o2jwi7o6d/Jug_Pud.jpg

You're right it wasn't ...but if I had it would have made a right mess of my microwave if I'd put it in a mug.

It was you who got me thinking about microwave cake PN (something I didn't know about) and I just googled to see if a carrot cake could be made in a microwave as I have carrots and they could be one of my 10 a day ....see there is some method in my thought process :cool:

I'll now know to quarter the recipe when I do make it

PasturesNew

karcher wrote: »

... it would have made a right mess of my microwave if I'd put it in a mug.

You'd have realised it wouldn't fit before it got into the machine

The flour takes up most of the space, if you put that in first you think "OMG I'm going to need a bucket!", sugar takes up a lot less space, butter/marg takes up least space.

At that point, for 115g you'd already have more than a regular mug could ever hope to contain .... you'd have been questioning it since "flour".

karcher wrote: »

I'll now know to quarter the recipe when I do make it

The problem you're going to have is that egg quantity. But you have options:
- wait until you find a tiny egg
- find a substitute and don't use one at all
- wait until you next do a recipe that uses egg and spoon out about 20 grams, cover it in the fridge and use within 1-2 days ... using 25 grams of each of the other ingredients.
- as above, but freeze the 20 grams of whisked egg until you want to do the recipe. 20 grams of whisked egg is tiny.... about a tablespoon.

As you can tell, this is all one area I'm quite experienced at.... I've been making them for years....

NewShadow

PasturesNew wrote: »

The problem you're going to have is that egg quantity. But you have options:
- find a substitute and don't use one at all

I'm considering this - http://amyshealthybaking.com/blog/2016/10/11/skinny-single-serving-carrot-cake-mug-cake/

But not sure how you measure a ⅛ of a tsp - by eye I guess?

for the mug cake
3 tbsp flour
⅜ tsp sweetener
⅛ tsp ground cinnamon
⅛ tsp baking powder
1/16 tsp salt
¼ tsp unsalted butter or coconut oil, melted
1 tbsp plain nonfat Greek yogurt
1 ½ tbsp milk
¼ tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp finely grated carrot

PasturesNew

NewShadow wrote: »

....

You seriously expect me to answer that???

The answer is simple.

There are far too many ingredients and it's far too faffy to even consider using it. Get down the shop and buy a small cake bar and be done with it... walk to a shop 1 mile away and you'll burn 100 calories walking there and back.



Sometimes, some things are better off left undone.

That is the cake of madness. No good will come of it.

Not worth the thought/effort. Really.