So why wake up on a Saturday at 7am when you can sleep in. Well, I had promised Sara that I would drive her to the train station. She was going to Odense to meet Winnie and some others friends. (Its a 2½ hour train journey so she needed to be away early!) So I was being the good mummy and making sure she got away on time. (She comes home this evening just after 11pm.)
So when I came home from the train station I thought about going back to bed, but decided against it when I was greeted by our wee bundle of fur. She was all ready for a cuddle, so that´s what we did....
When Leah woke up Shadow wanted to cuddle with her too....
Leah was watching Disney channel and Shadow was cuddled up watching it with her.
I got ready and headed out into town with Andrew. He needed a new winter coat, he only has a summer one, and it is getting colder. So against his will I dragged him around the shops. (He would much rather have been at home resting his weary limbs!) But we found a coat in the second shop we went too, so we headed home again quite quickly.I dropped him off home and then I headed out again - 1 hours shopping is not enough for me, especially on a Saturday. While I was gone, Kristian was cleaning the house, now that´s what I call good work distribution - I shop, he cleans!!
So today while shopping I bought the ingredients that I needed to bake this cake I have been raving on about. After dinner I started. I got everything organised and I was feeling good, feeling positive. I was actually feeling like my mum! She loved to bake and spent many an evening baking in the kitchen. So I got started.....
....it seemed to be going well. That is until I took it out of the oven and saw the size of it! The receipe said that I should cut the cake in two, but I couldnt cut this one in two! It should have been double the size it was. (I seem to have a problem with getting cakes to rise!) So discouraged, I packed everything away and gave up!I am now going off to paint and draw. Now that´s something that I DO enjoy doing!
(Leah and Shadow watching Hanna Montana! Cute eh?!)
7 comments:
Better luck with the cake next time! What is potato flour? in asian cooking they use a thing called potato starch which is a bit like cornflour, is that what you mean? If ingredients veer a bit of the norm I can get easily confused!
I know what you could have done with your cake . . . cut it in half, put your filling in, and just let on that you were always making it that size to begin with:-)
What did it taste like? It looks really good.
If you had a KitchenAid it would have risen!!!!!!
Or you could've just covered it with the filling and pretended it was a topping rather than a filling! But yes - have to agree with Rhoda, a KitchenAid would've made it perfectly!
Sorry this isnt cake related but just wanted to ask how many days it took you to recover? I lifted Tom yesterday (he was in his highchair & mum couldnt get him out, remember he weighs 2 & a half stone) and my wound (the bellybutton one) started to bleed. Its stopped now but when I had a shower this morning it washed the top of it & it started again. Did anything like that happen to you? Ive been taking it really easy ever since though. Havent even made so much as a cup of tea! Also, were you very swollen? (I look about 5 or 6 months pregnant)! But that doesnt worry me, I know it will go down in its own time.
Oh Lisa I have such a bad memory - I dont remember anything about the actual wound. I remember being a bit sore and sleeping on the living room chairs as they push back and it was easy to get up from....I slept there 2 nights - that was it. I remember that the pain was bearable and I could go around and do easy things after a few days. As for being swollen, well by the time I got the snip done my tummy was always swollen because of fat!! haha
If you´re worried ring the doctor tomorrow and just hear what he says.
Now about the cake - it tasted good. I think I must have done something wrong when I added the flour, it was really light and fluffy then I folded in the flour, quickly and carefully, but then I wasnt sure if I should whisk it, so I took my electric hand mixer and gave it a blast with that...thats when it went a bit funny - like it sunk...but I thought, hey it will be ok in the oven. haha Hopeless I am.
Now potato flour, it could be starch, over here it is directly translated potatoe flour, but it doesnt feel like flour it has more of a cornflour feel, so it must be starch.
Also over here I bought the pasturised eggs - the receipe called for 1 "carton" egg white (so I thought that must be 1 egg white) - you buy the egg whites in small cartons. On the carton it said that 1 wee carton = 1½ egg white.
and you need 3 cartons of pasturised egg yokes - it said on the carton that 1 carton = 2 egg yokes so you need 1½ egg whites and 6 egg yokes - just in case you try it. If you understand what I mean?!!
The cake actually tasted ok. We ate it while still hot. I just couldnt be bothered doing anymore last night, but I might give it a try one night during the week again.....any tips about folding in flour - what I should do???? I dont want to waste all the ingredients I bought especially for the filling....so you never know you might see me at it again!!!
Sounds like that blast blasted out the air!
You need to fold the flour in a little at a time, using a metal spoon. Literally put your spoon into the mixture, and fold it over the flour - don't stir it, until it is absorbed in the mixture, and then add a bit more etc until it's all in.
Try again!
Thanks rhoda - I think I might try it again. I just got a bit too eager with the mixer!! haha Got a bit carried away! haha
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