Aaaarrrggghhhh

pukkamum

I have just realised the baking powder i have used in my cakes for school had a sell by date of jan 07!!!!!!!!!! Please someone me that i'm not going to have to throw them away!!!! Could not bear to bring the whole school down with food poisoning!!!!!! THATS IT I KNEW THERE WAS A REASON I STOPPED BAKING CAKES`!!!!!!!!!!

Penelope_Penguin

Do you want a cup of tea and a muffin fresh from my oven :grouphug: You sound like you're having a bad time baking today.

It'll be fine - the use by date is just to cover the manufacturers. There'll be no possiblility of poisoning anyone.

Only risk is that it may have lost some ooomph. If it were me, I'd add a bit more than the recipe asks for.

Penny. x

pukkamum

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Do you want a cup of tea and a muffin fresh from my oven

Yes please penny i was so excied about doing these cakes and it has turned into a nightmare!

Penelope_Penguin

pukkamum wrote: »

Yes please penny i was so excied about doing these cakes and it has turned into a nightmare!

Sorry, pressed *submit* rather than *go advanced* so that I could add a hug for you.

Rest of the message above............

pukkamum

So glad i'm not gonna kill anyone!!!! I only put in the baking powder cos the first one didn't rise very well i used to be so good at cakes til i started dieting and couldn't be trusted and now i have lost the knack

Badger_Lady

Hee-hee-hee!!! I'm sure baking powder can't go off and kill people - you'll be fine ;-)

Pink.

Hi pukkamum,

I have just this minute lifted a couple of trays of beautifully risen double choc chip muffins out of the oven.

Sat down, read your post and wondered what date was on my baking powder.....it's May 07 and hasn't made any difference at all. As Penny says the worst that will happen is that it won't work quite so well.

Sorry you're having such a bad day.

Pink

pukkamum

Just taken them out of the oven and one hasn't risen at all and the other one has only risen on one side thats it i give up! They do smell good though so i may have to eat all the evidence of bad baking to save my blushes. It is so bizarre when i first started making cakes they almost rose too much! But the banana loaf i made last night rose beautifully!!!! Do you think it's because i am not using an electric whisk?

Penelope_Penguin

Go, on - pinch one of Pink's muffins

Try taking out a small slice, and taste it. I bet it won't taste bad at all. You can then ice and heavily decorate the cakes, and people will still think that they're far better than the commercial ones that they're likely to be offered.

Penny. x

pukkamum

Thank you everyone i am having a bad day and seem to have piled more than i can handle on my shoulders i have also decided to make chicken casserole with thighs that i have never used as well and i've got the docs just before tea why do i do this to myself it's almost as though i make my life more difficult on purpose! I should have just gone to morrisons bought some mr Kipling and a frozen pizza for tea and be done with it!!! Sorry to moan ignore me bad day!

Clutterfree

For Pukkamum.
Hope your day gets better.....