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Coffee & walnut cake again but with disasters - not taking into account that I was working with a fan oven meant the edges were overbaked & when I checked if the middle was baked through I caused the centre of the cake to collapse so it looked like a volcano. However I could hide this through an evil trick. Plus I had fun with a piping bag decorating the cake. & with feeding the cake with a drop of brandy...
— Jan 31, 2024 08:41AM
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Scones p.167 again. I like her recipe but I think her 2 centimetres is different from mine. Which reminds me of the joke: why are women so bad at parking? Because their husbands' tell them this much is six inches.
— Jan 01, 2024 04:59AM
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the savoy cake again. this time I intended to upgrade it to a savarin cake by stabbing it furiously with a toothpick and then force feeding it alcohol, unfortunately due to circumstances beyond my control, cake cutting day was brought forward before the feeding had even begun. Perhaps there is a lesson in this?
— Aug 06, 2023 10:49AM
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Dorsey Apple cake page 49. A simple pleasant apple cake though it had longer in the oven than the recipe said - could the oven be getting cooler? I chickened out of making the suggested custard to accompany it though it is the kind of cake that likes custard or ice cream or whipped cream.
— Mar 17, 2022 07:55AM
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18th century gingerbread page 81
Recipe from Eliza Smith's 1727 "the compleat housewife..."
Tis the season for gingerbread. I didn't have molasses & sourcing 1/2 an egg was tricky. But pleasant easy recipe. Naturally I will have to try these pleasingly spicy biscuits again once they have cooled down...
— Dec 03, 2021 02:24AM
Recipe from Eliza Smith's 1727 "the compleat housewife..."
Tis the season for gingerbread. I didn't have molasses & sourcing 1/2 an egg was tricky. But pleasant easy recipe. Naturally I will have to try these pleasingly spicy biscuits again once they have cooled down...
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Caraway Seed Cake page 29.
this one calls for four eggs, I have finally noticed that her recipes tended to be very eggy.
I was going to say that this means that this baking book is not so vegan friendly, but then the large amounts of butter required had already given that away.
So I could say that these recipes tend to be traditional with eggs doing most of the heavy lifting of raising the cake, it rose well
— Nov 04, 2021 07:51AM
this one calls for four eggs, I have finally noticed that her recipes tended to be very eggy.
I was going to say that this means that this baking book is not so vegan friendly, but then the large amounts of butter required had already given that away.
So I could say that these recipes tend to be traditional with eggs doing most of the heavy lifting of raising the cake, it rose well
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Panda cake - otherwise the coffee cake from page 35 minus the coffee with added panda. If you look on the internet for panda cakes you may see cakes with pandas stuck on top with a ring of biscuits round the edge representing bamboo, mine looked like one of those but much rougher and clumsy. I also call this cake "In a Bamboo Grove", although it does not have much to be with that story or the film Rashomon.
— Nov 04, 2021 06:27AM
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I wonder if as with the carrot cake, the flavour will improve over the coming days? It tasted ok on day one, though perhaps from the health point of view there was not enough walnut to counterbalance the coffee and the butter!
— Aug 15, 2021 04:10AM
I wonder if as with the carrot cake, the flavour will improve over the coming days? It tasted ok on day one, though perhaps from the health point of view there was not enough walnut to counterbalance the coffee and the butter!
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I wonder if like the carrot cake, this coffee and walnut cake will mature and improve in flavour over the next few days? It tasted ok on day one
— Aug 15, 2021 03:55AM
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I wonder if like the carrot cake, this coffee and walnut cake will mature and improve in flavour over the next few days? It tasted ok on day one
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Coffee and Walnut cake page 35
Due to laziness just English/US style buttercream. A prodigious amount of butter went into the cake. The batter was delicious, but the proof of the coffee and walnut cake is in the eating as the saying goes...
— Aug 15, 2021 03:13AM
Due to laziness just English/US style buttercream. A prodigious amount of butter went into the cake. The batter was delicious, but the proof of the coffee and walnut cake is in the eating as the saying goes...
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Carrot cake p.31 cont.
a little wise to the ways of carrot cake I made it a day before eating, but upon consumption I realised more time for the flavours to mature would have been better! Rose beautifully, thanks to 4 eggs, slightly extravagant recipe.
— Jul 23, 2021 07:04AM
a little wise to the ways of carrot cake I made it a day before eating, but upon consumption I realised more time for the flavours to mature would have been better! Rose beautifully, thanks to 4 eggs, slightly extravagant recipe.
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Sometimes you can rescue the cake by slicing it small and putting the pieces back in. Like dessert toast.
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Mir wrote: "Sometimes you can rescue the cake by slicing it small and putting the pieces back in. Like dessert toast."I don't know desert toast.
I had to slice the cake in half anyway so I dribbled some brandy and amaretto over, particularly towards the over baked edges
Regardless of the unlooked-for disaster, it seems the cake maintained its backbone and allowed you to further develop your creativity. Bon Appétit! :)
Volcano cake sounds tasty as a cake name too😁 - only for experienced cake adventurers!
MihaElla wrote: "Regardless of the unlooked-for disaster, it seems the cake maintained its backbone and allowed you to further develop your creativity. Bon Appétit! :)"funnily enough the cake had no backbone and split down the middle too !
Ilse wrote: "Volcano cake sounds tasty as a cake name too😁 - only for experienced cake adventurers!"making a volcano cake by design would be hard I think, but fun particularly with extravagant decoration - maybe a stream of whipped cream in place of the slightly less tasty magma?
There are those "molten lava" cakes with chocolate goo inside.
Mir wrote: "There are those "molten lava" cakes with chocolate goo inside."i know biscuits in that style - gooey inside, crisp exterior, but not a cake (or under that name ) :(
I have never seen such a thing!
Molten lava cake? It sounds like a 'moelleux au chocolat' - daughter's favourite dessert (apart from all the others).
Ilse wrote: "Molten lava cake? It sounds like a 'moelleux au chocolat' - daughter's favourite dessert (apart from all the others)."Yes, the first result (from Marmiton, "Mettre la farine et le sucre glace dans un saladier. Ajouter les oeufs entiers et mélanger jusqu'à obtention d'une émulsion homogène.") looks exactly like what called a lava cake here.
Has your daughter had flourless chocolate cake? I like it because it's more chocolaty and less sweet.
What was the evil trick to hide the crater of the volcano in the end? I'm burning to know :D
I think that I probably tried to hide the crater with icing and decoration
