Let's play "Save The Cake"

with a smile :) ↓

Fri, Apr 19 2024, 10:03 am

My DD made this recipe. And wondered why it was so watery. We figured out why... instead of 2 tsp of water, she put in 2 cups!

What would you do to save it?

Easy Chocolate Cake
8 eggs
2 cups sugar
Beat for a few minutes until very smooth, add:
1 ⅓ cup oil
2 tsp coffee powder in 2 tsp water
¾ cup cocoa
1 ½ cup potato starch
½ cup ground nuts

Bake 25-30 minutes

amother

Mimosa

Fri, Apr 19 2024, 10:54 am

I think best cut your losses now. Adding more ingredients and spending time trying to save this will just waste more ingredients and more time. My helper made a big baking mistake yesterday too! It’s painful before Pesach when ingredients are so expensive and time is even more scarce than money.

rainbow dash

Fri, Apr 19 2024, 2:17 pm

I just made a,really easy chocolate cake and I remembered thst I had forgotten the cup of oil 5 mins before I had to take it out of the oven
It tastes,fine, just a,bit dry

↑ with a smile :)

Sat, Apr 20 2024, 3:07 pm

Well, b"H, we had a pre-Pesach neis!

This cake was pretty important, because it was for DS10's birthday, and I didn't have ingredients to make another cake. I was low on sugar and actually ran out of oil and had borrowed a plastic cup of oil from a neighbor. So I started throwing in more ingredients. Everything was unmeasured. The 1/4 cup of oil I had left, a bunch of potato starch, but probably a bit less than a cup, some sugar and cocoa powder, some more ground nuts, a couple of eggs, and a packet of baking powder. I figured that the extra ingredients combined with the baking powder, which the original recipe didn't call for, would help, and make it more like a cake that calls for juice or liquid.

B"H, it came out great. I can't say it was the best cake in the world, but it had a pretty typical Pesach consistency, somewhere between cake and brownies, and I made two 9x11 pans, and we had whipped frosting so it was a double decker cake, and it got all eaten up by the end of Shabbos. And DS was so thrilled with it, and he got to have a proper birthday celebration on time.