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Birthday cake disaster!
11 Dec 2020 02:05 pmMy birthday cake - which we made a day late because I forgot on my birthday - came out actually uncooked in the center. My fault! It was the first time baking cake in the convection oven, and I set the temperature down a little; maybe that was wrong? Because the cake was in 5 minutes more than the recipe called for, so I assumed it would be done I suppose, and when the toothpick came out clean I took it out right away. (The toothpick was, I guess, damp from the batter in the middle, but it didn't have sticky crumbs on it. So I guess the problem is that it was EVEN MORE undercooked than normal for an undercooked cake.)
This isn't the worst thing ever because it still tastes good and there's no risk of salmonella in Finland, but it is very vexing. I haven't made a full-sized cake in years; I vastly prefer cupcakes or muffins, but I felt too lazy to oil the silicone muffin cups last night. I feel properly humbled by this misadventure and encouraged to stick to cupcakes in future, though. And cookies. I'm thinking extra cookies this year to make up for not having the family over as planned: we won't be making all the savory feast stuff without them there, or the marshmallow fudge, so the gingerbread will be extra important. (Too bad we didn't buy that set of vintage Soviet cookie cutters we found on ebay though; that was sweet.)
The snow has stuck to the ground for the first time this year and we still don't have winter tires on. Wax has been given a recommendation for where to buy them, but we can't go do that until the snow melts again.
This isn't the worst thing ever because it still tastes good and there's no risk of salmonella in Finland, but it is very vexing. I haven't made a full-sized cake in years; I vastly prefer cupcakes or muffins, but I felt too lazy to oil the silicone muffin cups last night. I feel properly humbled by this misadventure and encouraged to stick to cupcakes in future, though. And cookies. I'm thinking extra cookies this year to make up for not having the family over as planned: we won't be making all the savory feast stuff without them there, or the marshmallow fudge, so the gingerbread will be extra important. (Too bad we didn't buy that set of vintage Soviet cookie cutters we found on ebay though; that was sweet.)
The snow has stuck to the ground for the first time this year and we still don't have winter tires on. Wax has been given a recommendation for where to buy them, but we can't go do that until the snow melts again.
