Reactions to home baked cakes

Curry_Queen

rchddap1 wrote:

When I'm in the right mood i love baking. The problem is my cakes and biscuits never seem to stick around for very long. I leave them on the side to cool down and within seconds my other half has munched his way through a good pile. With a bit of help from me of course.

That's always been the problem here too! ... cakes cut into before they've had time to cool, unless I specifically state don't touch, if I want to decorate it first, and cookies that walk off the cooling rack and never make it to the storage tin :rotfl: ... not that I ever do that of course :whistle:


I also have the same complaints about home economics in schools and when DS was cooking last term they were asked to bring in a frozen pastry sheet to make cheese 'n' onion pasty :eek: Whatever happened to teaching them how to make pastry as we did at school??? I still remember now being taught to make puff pastry and folding it over with little pieces of butter spattered between the layers!

He was even told off on a couple of occasions when I refused to buy tinned or ready made products and made up batches at hime for him to take in!!! His cookery teacher is just lucky that I can't get along to Parents' Evenings or she'd have got a piece of my mind grrrrrrrr :mad:

spendaholic

When I teach people stuff, such as IT, I always show them the long way around first, wait until they understand that, and THEN teach them the short cuts. I wish they did the same in HE. i.e. show them how to make proper pastry, proper bread, proper cakes, etc, and then show them how readymade pastry saves time WHEN NECESSARY, how to use a bread maker (and even with flour rather than bread mixes), and how packet cake mixes differ in taste and texture.

moggins

I've never used a bread mix in my breadmaker, is it easier? How do you do it? Just put the water in first and then the mix?

spendaholic

It's easier cos you don't have to weigh anything - just measure the water and tip in the whole packet.

Whether you put the water in first or the mix I've recently discovered depends on your breadmaker.

badgermonkey

Hmm...off work today...raining outside...BF in all day with a sweet tooth...

You've all convinced me! It's baking day!

spendaholic

Yup - I'm off to do some baking too. A white loaf in the breadmaker (now I've worked out when to put the water in!), and some muffin-sized fairy cakes.

Lyndsay_21

i must admit i'm a terrible cake maker it either never seems to rise or its too stodgy or it goes lopsided or it just doesn't taste nice, so i tend to cheat and buy cake (when i have it)

rchddap1

Every so often I try a new recipe, or change a recipe and the results can end up disasterous. I tried a chocolate sponge cake a couple of weeks ago. Would have been a lovely cake....if it had come out of the tin in one peice. Other half decided that this 'bodge' was his signal to scoff the lot.

I have a couple of recipes that I know work for me. Not that I necessarily stick to the exact ingredients that is. If you keep on trying you will find a technique that works for you.

Edit: Just seen the posts about breadmaker...you lot are making me hungry again. Fresh bread in the morning i think.

Curry_Queen

Did I ever post my recipe for Yoghurt cake in here? It's so simple and foolproof that anyone could make it


All this talk of baking, I think I might end up in the kitchen this afternoon :rotfl:




Edit: I had posted it before and here it is

Queenie

Curry_Queen wrote:

All this talk of baking, I think I might end up in the kitchen this afternoon :rotfl:

Who's kitchen? Yours ....... or BB's