What a twit (sponge cake)

They are coming to see you Witzend, cake is a bonus 🍰

As my dear old dad used to say, "Oh well, it's going to get a lot more broken up where it's going!" Homemade cake will always be appreciated, Witzend.

I did just that with last year’s Christmas cake. Fortunately the bits came together again, sort of, and when decorating it I surreptitiously marked the area only to be cut and eaten by us. I also said why, after all these years of making cakes? I’m sure yours will be fine and much enjoyed.

I doubt anyone would notice - and home made sponge cake is just lovely!

Never having made a sponge in my life I'm impressed anyway!! Also I'm used to my mum's various failures which were always eaten with delight despite their appearance.

I had a mishap with a box of homemade Shortbread. It was eaten anyway. It still tasted great.

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

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.

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!).

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 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'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!

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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 …

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!

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 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.

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! 😳