Further cake experiments

[davidn]

In the interests of science, I convinced Whitney to help me put together a short video demonstrating some other properties (besides edibility and alphabetizability) of the cakettes that I mentioned in my last entry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xz7IoJ-yNM

I may have taken slight advantage of the fact that she had a cold and was just up, so her brain's what-the-hell-are-you-doing department had not yet engaged. The sudden application of force caused the week-old cake to basically vaporize into a dust storm of rock-solid microparticles, which I'm still picking out of the corners of the flat. I think that given enough maturing time, they could be used as fairly lethal projectiles.

Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Oh, my god, that was beautifully done. I really laughed out loud. :)

So, wait, are you saying the cake wasn't just knocked to one side? It totally shattered?

[davidn]

You can just about see two individual pieces flying off at the moment of impact, away from the on-screen crumbs, and the noises after that are of those two pieces impacting on the walls, floor and occasionally ceiling and breaking up Asteroids-style.

I think I eventually recovered enough cake to account for about half of the original block.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

I think we've figured out why they're called "cake blocks".

[kibet.livejournal.com]

I also laughed and probably woke the neighbours. I was expecting some sort of Sesame Street style stop animation.

Cake-in-a-mug

[diarytypething.livejournal.com]

I found a cake recipe that might be more your kind of thing. Microwaveable, easy to measure, almost no washing up, and it only makes enough cake for 1-2 servings, so you don't have leftovers that fossilise a couple of days later.

4 tablespoons sugar
6 tablespoons SR flour (or plain flour with a bit of baking powder)
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence, or anything else you want to use for flavouring, e.g. cinnamon, ginger, coffee, a splash of orange juice.

Put all of the ingredients into a large coffee mug and mix it all together. If it's incredibly stodgy and thick, add a bit more milk. Put the mug in the microwave for about three minutes on 3/4 power, then leave it to stand for a couple of minutes. Run a knife around the inside of the mug to loosen the cake and turn it out on to a plate, or just eat it from the mug with a spoon.

Re: Cake-in-a-mug

[davidn]

Make no mistake, this cake was potentially nice - just that it needed small adjustments to the recipe and didn't keep very well! But thanks for that recipe anyway (and it's even in Americofriendly measures) - the sheer amount of cake produced was definitely rather a lot for a two-person household, and I do like the idea of no washing-up :)