cause we can see how, it's gonna end

[mousapelli]

I'm not a good baker and here is why: a) I don't like to be given directions very much ("sift flour" "eh, I'm sure it's fine") and b) I never really have all the right ingredients exactly. This time I was lacking milk (I have almond milk) and butter (i have Country Crock spread, which you would think is margarine, but on the label it says "LESS FAT THAN MARGARINE" so tbh i have no idea what it is). I only need the butter for the icing, so it probably won't be TOO weird...but then I was like, making a loaf cake is for the weak, i will use these two circular disposable pans i have here randomly.

...i feel pretty sure this orange cake is not going to turn out terribly well. If you are ever coming over and i'm like "I will make you a cake!" you should respond "please go and get the kind that comes in a box." Also my weird apartment oven makes regular food normally but in terms of baking time tends to need nearly half again as much time, so it's always a crapshoot.

At any rate I am really doing not that much on my Columbus Day/Canadian Thanksgiving day off, and eventually drama night people will show up. I need to go let the beagle out at least once (honestly if I can get him in the truck i might bring him over) but in the end I'll have to spend the night at my parents'. But I might actually get this afghan finished though *ganbarus*

Comments

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend tried to sift flour when he was making pancakes yesterday - we don't have a sifter, though, so he was mashing the flour through a colander. He quickly decided that sifted flour was not worth the effort. :P

[ladyamedeus.livejournal.com]

I literally loled at the image of flour through a colander.

[mark356.livejournal.com]

I've done that! Once I was making a cake in a synagogue's kitchen, and they had no sieve, so I just used their colander instead!

[mark356.livejournal.com]

You know, a lot of people will tell you that baking is not like cooking, where you can throw in a pinch of this and a dash of whatever you want-- they say that baking is precise and depends on accurate measurements and specific balances. I don't agree at all-- baking is just like cooking, I think, and you can add or subtract or switch out whatever you want. Of course you can't expect it to taste the same, but that's part of the fun.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

haha well not sifting it sure didn't end up awesomely for me, I can tell you.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

i think you have to understand the basic principles of what ingredients do what in baking though for you to start messing around with it though. I've definitely eliminated the ingredient necessary for rising and that sort of stuff in the past.