Comments on: Cake Sabotage

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:39:01 +0000

I’ve had similar travails with scones. One, in particular, involved a serious phone call that turned into an hour-plus-long conversation—conducted while the scones were quietly on fire in the oven. Yikes!

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:56:19 +0000

Hohoho.
I know it’s been said over and over but this is
very funny and so typical. My grandmother is a little like that too

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:49:16 +0000

This sounds like my saga with my mom’s chocolate chip cookies… I wonder what SHE does since I’m using her oven, her ingredients…etc. Hers are perfect, mine are edible but not the same!

I’m putting a vote in for getting your recipe!

By: Adriana

Adriana — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:12:47 +0000

That is the sweetest story. And your mum actually does look a bit sneaky in that picture

You know, I’ve had a similar issue with my mum’s roasted potatoes. I can never get them to go just crispy enough as my mum. You’ve got me thinking about whether she has a secret too…

I think I need to go call her now.

By: Amelia

Amelia — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:26:28 +0000

I have to laugh because I had the same experience with my mum and her cupcake recipe. I made her come over and give me a master class about 18mths ago and when I got to the part of the recipe (the recipe she gave me, mind you) where it instructs you to add half a teaspoon of salt mum told me that she never puts the salt in. All this time and she’d managed to leave that little tidbit out! It made a HUGE difference to the cupcake batter and I have been much more successful with them ever since. It’s so funny that your mum had also kept a very useful little piece of info to herself. Happy baking!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:11:38 +0000

So….now you must give us all the cake recipe!

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:32:58 +0000

That story made me smile

Thank goodness it’s all sorted out now!

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:58:43 +0000

Ha! This made me laugh out loud. I attempted to bake some of my Mum’s ‘ginger biscuits’ this weekend, which turned out disastrously. No doubt, having read your post, because the flour was a) stale, b) not self-raising flour (they don’t have that in the States?!!), plus my baking powder that I’d substituted for baking soda was nearly 6 years old.

I wonder where I went wrong?!!

By: Margot

Margot — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:20:48 +0000

inspiring. looks delicious. and your mum! she’s hysterical with the smile and the glint! Congrats on mastering the cake!

By: sunny

sunny — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:10:22 +0000

awww..this story made me smile!
The fact that there was this miscommunication or something – somehow…

I totally would not have caught the timing in the oven either….or make the connection that a crispy cake might need to be baked a shorter amount of time.

YAY for solving the cake mystery!