... ... Okay, so, actually, it's not that bad... Like, yes, this is the real picture of the cake... Of its bottom in particular. The upper part is on the left. So, what happened is that most of the outside part of the cake is totally burnt and basically inedible, but the insides are actually quite edible... Like... Those are the burnt parts removed of two slices: As you can see, the insides actually have cake color instead of charcoal colors. ... It wasn't thaaaaat great though. My blender is quite old and wasn't able to mix the ingredients properly, so it ended up being a pretty heavy cake instead of a pretty fluffy one. And the burn seems to have happened mainly because I used a weird cake pan that I borrowed from my mom without asking her about the specifics of each cake pan she had (she was busy when I needed it, so I just took the one that seemed to fit size-wise. She'd have helped me pick a good one otherwise). The one I picked apparently has a 100% burn rate on every attempt she made on baking something with it so far, so she is considering just throwing it away... So uhn... I guess I was unlucky? Like, I took the cake out of the oven after it was inside for 28min, even though it was supposed to be there for 40min... And this was the result. The taste of the cake was pretty acceptable though. Even though it had burnt parts and the texture was far from ideal... I guess it was alright for a first attempt while using faulty tools... >.> Anyways, that was my barely passable cake! Share some stories of your own where you tried making/doing something and either failed miserably or made something barely passable! I wanna hear about everyone's attempts of trying something new that didn't go out as well as expected! ^^)/
when I didn't have suitable equipment for baking I use baking paper in the bottom of the baking pan and aluminum foil on the top if you do it right the cake will not burn. depending on where you live heat and humidity is different so putting a cup of water in the oven will make the cake softer and let it absorb moisture so that when you leave it out to cool it doesn't become a piece of hard rock. Also using a tooth pick you can pretty much tell when you cake is done since the tooth pick will rise when your cake is done also works with bread. I love using brick oven in my backyard to make pastries they work much better to me than regular oven, but I can use both.
When I was a student, my grades usually weren't what I expected (sometimes good and sometimes bad) but when I bake a cake it is edible and delicious, outside and inside, whatever side you turn it or decide to eat it from, I am a bit disappointed, I thought you made a lava cake at first and then you tell me you burnt it
Well... I just need to avoid using this cake pan in particular and to use a better blender next time... It will probably work out better if I do~
This is called lava cake, there are variations but this is what I meant, I made one by pure luck once, as what I had in mind was just a simple chocolate cake
4 eggs 2 spoons of butter 3 cups of flour 2 cups of sugar 2 spoons of cocoa powder 1 cup of milk 2 spoons of baking powder That's the recipe I used~
Butter can be measured in spoons? I thought it was always measured by grams or tablespoons... wait >.>;;
*googles* Apparently it was a tablespoon. I was translating the recipe from Portuguese to English, so I decided I wouldn't bother with the specifics of the types of spoon/cups. But yeah, all spoons listed are tablespoons. The cups are teacups btw. What's a ref cake? *tilts head*