Baking Adventures
Feb. 26th, 2024 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potentiality_26Take two on the Lemon Bundt cake! I definitely felt good about the batter when I put it in the oven, even though Things Went a Little Bit Wrong in the process.
Look, everyone has their things that they know are mistakes but they do them anyway, and one of mine is starting to make something without having all the ingredients ready. In this case:
1) I had planned to try making it with yogurt instead of buttermilk, but it turned out there was no yogurt in the house! Why didn't I know that? Idk. Curdled the milk with lemon juice instead.
2) There was so little baking soda left I was struggling to get it out of the box. When my teaspoon measure failed I went to a 1/2 teaspoon, got one out before I had to go to the 1/4 teaspoon, by which time I was losing track of how much baking soda I was putting in there. Might have been too little. Heck, it might have been too much.
Such are the trials of seat-of-your-pants style baking.
Anyway it turned out fine. Good texture and better lemon flavor -- still not the cake of my dreams but definitely going in the right direction.
Look, everyone has their things that they know are mistakes but they do them anyway, and one of mine is starting to make something without having all the ingredients ready. In this case:
1) I had planned to try making it with yogurt instead of buttermilk, but it turned out there was no yogurt in the house! Why didn't I know that? Idk. Curdled the milk with lemon juice instead.
2) There was so little baking soda left I was struggling to get it out of the box. When my teaspoon measure failed I went to a 1/2 teaspoon, got one out before I had to go to the 1/4 teaspoon, by which time I was losing track of how much baking soda I was putting in there. Might have been too little. Heck, it might have been too much.
Such are the trials of seat-of-your-pants style baking.
Anyway it turned out fine. Good texture and better lemon flavor -- still not the cake of my dreams but definitely going in the right direction.
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