Help?!? I just made a cake

Bronzie

So it's our club's road race Sunday and the organiser asked for cake-based donations to the tea bar. Rashly, I decided this would be the ideal time to try my first cake baking experience. Oh dear.

Mark 1 is a banana and ginger cake - sounds good in theory but tastes a bit bland and rather rubbery. Not sure if this is due to the recipe (Mrs Bronzie "Low Fat / No Fat" cook book) or the execution. Don't think I could seriously ask people to pay for this unless they have another use for it (ie propping up their front wheel when on the turbo or for launching at stray dogs / motorists).

So the options are:
- try again with the same recipe :?
- try again with a more favourable recipe (date & walnut sounds nice )
- buy a cake from Costco and pass it off as my own :twisted:
- write the whole thing down to experience and leave the oven to someone who knows how to drive it :oops:

What would Lance do?

redvee

Try your local WI that way the cake won't be bought from a shop and traceable.

bobpzero

any Ashers near u?

Barrie_G

Go for the date and walnut, though forget about this low fat, low taste junk and bake a proper cake with all of its proper fattening calories, you can always do an extra couple of miles on the bike to work it off

redvee

See some of the local shadier characters in town and add a 'special ingredient' to the cake

Red Rock

Just donate a couple of packs of Fig Rolls. After all they are a type of cake.

Red Rock

Fantasia

Hi

This is an easy one - Boiled Fruit Cake

Ingredients
1 cup castor sugar
1 cup sultanas
1 cup milk
110g/4oz butter
2 cups self-raising flour
1 tsp mixed spice
1 egg
lined 900g/2lb loaf tin



Method
1. Oven temp 150C/300F/Gas 2.
2. Place the caster sugar, sultanas, milk and butter into a fairly large saucepan
bring slowly to the boil [giving sugar and butter time to melt].
3. Allow it to cool a little, then add the self-raising flour and the egg to the boiled mixture.
4. Mix together thoroughly and pour into loaf tin. Place in pre-heated oven for about 75-90 minutes. Allow it to cool in the tin.
Recommendations for accompaniments:
Nice cup of tea or coffee.
This has to be the easiest fruit-cake to make - ever.

boybiker

Space cake is always good, although it does contain prohibited substances

Jez mon

Just cheat and buy a costco cake, unless you secretly enjoy cooking!

Crapaud

redvee wrote:

See some of the local shadier characters in town and add a 'special ingredient' to the cake

You are Hilary Briss...



... and ICM £5.

Bronzie

Went for option B - date + walnut - much nicer than the "rubber block cake" that I brewed to start with.

May well try Fantasia's fruit cake recipe if I get time on Saturday - after all, there's a little bit of fruit cake in all of us.

DavidBelcher

Red Rock wrote:

Just donate a couple of packs of Fig Rolls. After all they are a type of cake.

Red Rock

Fig Rolls are definitely a biscuit, though. It's Jaffa Cakes that are "the biscuit that technically isn't a real biscuit but actually a cake", as McVities famously managed to convince the taxman;

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/jaffajudgement/

Thinks to self: what's the VAT guys' take on fish cakes?

David

BMCCbry

Bronzie, if you like I could send you the recipe for 'Bryony's Brownies' - dead easy and never fails! 8)

hammerite

Bronzie, try this it's lovely!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/chocolatefruitandnut_74454.shtml

Technically not baking, but there is an art to melting chocolate! :?

If you want to add a little surprise a bit of rum really gives it an edge 8)

Bronzie

BMCCbry wrote:

Bronzie, if you like I could send you the recipe for 'Bryony's Brownies' - dead easy and never fails! 8)

How could any red-blooded male refuse Bryony's Brownies

The date & walnut cake seemed to go down well.......................reports that it came back up even better are as yet unconfirmed. :oops: