My Attempt At Baking

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Lady Kelly said:
I made cookies yesterday which turned out fab and double chocolate brownies which are extremely gooey (I'm assuming underbaked lol)
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Gooey is fine by me! :D

I've just come out of the kitchen, more like a bombsite! :lol!: I have to say, I'll never be a Mary Berry :soz:
 
My choccy and beetroot cake has been tested. I can't taste the beetroot?!? But is still nommy! :drool:
 
Ta da !

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Chocolate and Beetroot cupcakes (vegan).

Not as funny as my previous attempt - but more like cupcakes should be.

Thankyou everyone for following this thread - and to @adelhide for providing the solution .

@Tim - are we going to get a picture of your baking ? - or have you eaten it all ?
 
Love the raspberry cakes - they wouldn't last 2 minutes in our house!
This thread has given me an idea for the beetroot currently in our fridge that OH seems to have decided not to cook. He does the cooking, I usually do the baking but he has recently had a go at baking inspired by Bake Off. On his first attempt he learnt that baking soda is not the same thing as baking powder.......!
 
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Tim said:
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This made me chuckle :))
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Chuckle was what we did some time after - the misunderstanding wasn't realised until we tried it and as he'd made it with our 3 yo who was incredibly proud, we had to pretend it was delicious :vom:
 
To make you feel better:))

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They don't look that bad, and as someone said before, what matters is how it tastes!
The first time I made coulant, when I take them out of the mold, they looked like cow poop... :))
 
PiggyOwner said:
Erm - I don't think the recepie said they were raspberry cakes !


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Can someone page Wiebke as a matter of urgency please :lol!:
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Fill any muffin cases only three quarters full - that is 30 ml, i.e. 1/4 cup (you can get cheap spoon and cup measuring sets online for just a few pounds or dollars) or two tablespoons - then you can be sure that all are equally high and won't go over the edge. Preheat the oven before you put a tray in (in modern ovens ca. 5 minutes, in older ones 10 minutes for higher temperatures), or it may not get up to temperature, and always double check the temperature and setting before you put any cake in. It really pays taking your time there!

Yours look like they got plenty of top heat, but no bottom heat, so you may have accidentally had them on the grill setting? I don't think that there is anything wrong with it apart from baking on the wrong temperature or setting. ;)
We all learn from our mistakes - have a chat with my family about my cakes when I was a teenager... :yikes:
 
Lisa... Do you live on a hill?

I've never laughed so much in my life! However, as a decorater of cupcakes, that makes one heck of a surface for some butter icing and fancy decor! Might have to try and attempt that.. Mine always come up to high.. Like a peak, they peak. And no one likes a peaking cupcake when you need to stick a Santa Claus made of fondue icing on it! Anyway! I digress, your second batch look good too! Do they actually taste like beetroot?
 
... I couldn't stop laughing when they came out of the oven . I couldn't repeat them if I tried!

To answer Wiebke - our oven is a Ray burn and were on a high shelf so, were effectively grilled .

To answer Cat, the chocolate cupcakes were lovely - but you can't taste the beetroot.
 
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@PiggyOwner i thought of you tonight. Baking the second lot of goodies for my son to sell at school tomorrow to raise money for Cavy Corner has not gone so well. Firstly the cakes threatened at one point to go like yours at the start of this thread. Not sure why really, all the same as the last lot which were great.

I had to take the uncooked flapjack out of the tray and remix it when I spotted just before putting it in the oven that the sugar was still on the weighing scales rather than in the mix.

Then 14 minutes into the 20 minutes of baking the flapjack, my OH pointed out I'd accidentally turned on the grill rather than the fan oven. :yikes::yikes:

The woes didn't end there. I stupidly forgot that it is best to add the water a little at a time when making fondant icing. Rather more icing round the cakes now than on them :lose:

Almost want to start all over again!
 
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@PiggyOwner i thought of you tonight. Baking the second lot of goodies for my son to sell at school tomorrow to raise money for Cavy Corner has not gone so well. Firstly the cakes threatened at one point to go like yours at the start of this thread. Not sure why really, all the same as the last lot which were great.

I had to take the uncooked flapjack out of the tray and remix it when I spotted just before putting it in the oven that the sugar was still on the weighing scales rather than in the mix.

Then 14 minutes into the 20 minutes of baking the flapjack, my OH pointed out I'd accidentally turned on the grill rather than the fan oven. :yikes::yikes:

The woes didn't end there. I stupidly forgot that it is best to add the water a little at a time when making fondant icing. Rather more icing round the cakes now than on them :lose:

Almost want to start all over again!
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I'd better copyright my raspberry cakes - quick !

Joking apart - I hate baking disasters - mainly as I wind up eating them all.
 
PiggyOwner said:
I'd better copyright my raspberry cakes - quick !

Joking apart - I hate baking disasters - mainly as I wind up eating them all.
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He he he I have tried to ice the warm flapjack with the left over runny fondant icing - not sure what possessed me - it looks totally unsaleable but I have to confess it tastes great - probably the vast amount of different sugars now in it :D
 
I'm okay at baking but I'm a terrible cook. Reminds me of something I would do.
 
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