What a twit (sponge cake)

SueDonim

*Vintage Nonna* that’s known as a bits & pieces lunch/tea in our house, a term trademarked by my youngest dd. 😂

We call it a 'picky' tea - often to use up bits and pieces from the fridge or freezer!

I do hope you’re not casting aspersions on my American chocolate cake, Callistemon. It was delicious I tell you, delicious!

Though actually it had odd ingredients too - espresso powder, and vegetable oil instead of butter. The mixture was so runny I had to pour it into the tin.

No American chocolate though. Apologies to our American members, and it’s just my personal taste, but I would have had to draw the line at that.

DGD was telling me about a disastrous cake she made in her cookery class at school.
She picked an American recipe measured in cups with unusual ingredients including American chocolate and said it was awful.
She said her pasta dish was delicious, however!

I expect your sponge was delicious, Witzend

Yesterday I made a couple of banana cakes with fruit, didn't weigh anything, which I would normally do, accidentally melted the butter, threw it all in together, whizzed it up and they were better than any I'd made before.

SueDonim

To the OP, how sad - you’ll have to fill the gaps with more icing!

I once made Xmas puds and was about to get ready to steam them, although they hadn’t filled the basins as full as usual. I glanced at a worktop and there was a bowl with all the dried fruit sitting in alcohol. I had to empty out all the basins to stir in the fruit.

😂😂😂

Vintage Nonna that’s known as a bits & pieces lunch/tea in our house, a term trademarked by my youngest dd. 😂

My 'cooked' version would involve toasting brown bread, smearing on the marmite while it was still hot and mashing the ripe bananas on top.

To the OP, how sad - you’ll have to fill the gaps with more icing!

I once made Xmas puds and was about to get ready to steam them, although they hadn’t filled the basins as full as usual. I glanced at a worktop and there was a bowl with all the dried fruit sitting in alcohol. I had to empty out all the basins to stir in the fruit.

Grandma70s

When I was first married, a very long time ago, I had a wonderful little book called The Awful Cook’s Book, which described how to disguise things that went wrong..

Could have been written for me! 😳

I read that 'Girl Dinner' is the latest food style. No cooking or prepping, just gathering together bits you like and eating them.

Wonder what DH would say to marmite and banana sandwiches for dinner.

When I was first married, a very long time ago, I had a wonderful little book called The Awful Cook’s Book, which described how to disguise things that went wrong..

I made a base recently for a strawberry sponge flan that I had made a thousand times before and they are always spot on. This time I couldn’t understand why it came out of the oven looking like a giant Yorkshire pudding until I tasted it! I’d forgotten to put the sugar in it! It went into the bin. Fortunately it was quick and easy to knock up another one. It’s annoying that my Yorkshire puddings don’t come out looking that good!

Sorry, if only I’d known - I’m such a gannet, not a crumb left. If there’s another cake catastrophe reported, I promise not to hog it. But just think how virtuous you are, while I’m wondering how to burn off all the —delicious— calories …

Damn and blast it, I'd settle for a few crumbs though? Been a loong while since I ate cake

I bought a rather flat looking chocolate sponge at a charity event and they had used salt instead of caster sugar so a bit of broken sponge is absolutely "nothing". Have a lovey time with your visitors.

You’re too late MibsXX - I got there first! To rub salt into the wound, it was fabulous …

Oh dear, you cannot possibly serve that, here, let me PM you my address and I'll discreetly dispose of it for you! :-)

I thought you were going to say you forgot to add the egg which is what I came close too the other day when making some tea bread!

It will taste just as nice and they will appreciate homemade!

Whizzy new oven delivered today so I shall be expecting even better outcomes from myself in the culinary department!

I'm not the only one to be puzzled at having ingredients 'left over' as I am about to place a cake into the oven!

The number of times I have not added everything (mostly eggs)... I, too have scooped mixtures back into the mixing bowl before adding errant ingredients and amazingly, they are usually fine and perfectly edible!

I made a sponge pudding recently and was so pleased with myself as I don’t often make these and mixed the butter, sugar and flour together and put in pudding bowl on top of marmalade. It didn’t look quite right so I looked at recipe and I had forgotten to add beaten eggs. Scooped it all out (with bits of marmalade!) beat the eggs and stirred them in. Turned out OK.

I decided to make some buns for some friends but turned the knob to grill instead of oven - they went down well despite being a bit burnt on top and soggy at the bottom . 🧁 🧁

I made a large chocolate cake using an American recipe and cup measurements for DGS2's birthday party last week. I somehow misread the measurements for all the dry ingredients - when I realised I had to recalculate and rejig everything else and was fearing the worst when it took an hour longer to bake than the recipe stated. It was delicious (and they weren't just saying that because they saved me a bit!).

A cousin of mine who lives in Europe sent us some homemade Christmas biscuits one year. When they arrived we opened the box excitedly. 'Oh, crumbs, I uttered!'. The travel and lack of good packaging had reduced them to a box of crumbs. Shame to waste them, I made the most delicious boozy trifle! Waste not want note.

Cake is cake and always welcome. If you need it disposing of, I can come round and help out!