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    I baked a cake today and I was all excited. When the cake was cooled down and removed from the pan, I noticed it was a little on the thin side. I didn't think much of it, I just thought it was thin because I used a large, long pan.

    After icing it and decorating it, and noticed the box of egg replacer said "1 tsp egg replacer with 2 tbsp water." You know what I did? I put 1 tsp egg replacer and 2 tsp water. GRRR.

    My cake still tastes okay but it's too dense and slightly chewy.

    God, I'm mad! I ALWAYS ruin everything I bake. EVERYTHING I ever baked got ruined.
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    Default Re: Grr! I'm so stupid!

    its ok, you just made brownies by accident. nothing wrong with that!
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    Default Re: Grr! I'm so stupid!

    They don't taste like brownies. It's a vanilla cake with "buttery" icing.
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    errr, blondies then I suppose... sorry, I was stuck on choccy cake answer from the Ask Game
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    Default Re: Grr! I'm so stupid!

    I hate how stupid I am. All I wanted was cake, not dense shit.
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    Thats one of those tiny mistake = disproportionate consequences things isn't it? Its so unfair that mix up teaspoons = no cake for you.

    Hope you get over your lack of cakey goodness problems Tiger.

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    Oh Poor Tigerlily, bless her heart. Quick! someone make her a cake and run it round!. Veggie - you could do with the exercise! - bake up and get jogging....

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    I'd have to do a spot of ocean swimming to whilst keeping a cake dry. No problem!

    Resisting eating it along the way? erm...

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    Atleast the icing is delicious. Thick, creamy, buttery icing with rainbow sprinkles and mini chocolate chips.
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    Default Re: Grr! I'm so stupid!

    ach dont worry..my cakes always go wrong.

    thats the fun of making. you get to try again & again

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    As a relatively good cook I always get told that people 'can't bake'. It must be one of the most common things I hear regarding cooking.
    Baking is chemistry, you *have* to get the measurements right and the oven up to temperature beforehand. If necessary read through the ingredients and recipe a few times, have all your ingredients assembled in front of you and then slowly work your way through.
    But hey, even a sunken cake tastes cook covered in icing, so its not all bad.

    Oh yeah, and sometimes a baked good *will* go wrong. It just happens so swear, let it go and try again a few days later. I find 'bad baking days' are a part of life and the best solution is to avoid baking on that day and have a drink instead!

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    I agree with the above comments. Cooking can be artistic but basically it's logical and science based - hence why as a complete geek I'm interested in it. Confectionary making is the ultimate in terms of having to be absolutely scrupulous in terms of measurements and temperatures (particularly tempering and sucrose caramalisation), quickly followed by bread and yeast based stuff. Baking is a little more relaxed, you can use 20% more or less of an ingredient and get away with it, but the same basic principles remain. As it happens egg replacer is completely unnessecary in baking. The egg marketting board or whoever they are have done an amazing job of convincing the population that eggs are needed and as such people who turn vegan seek out direct replacements. Infact all that cakes are is flour, sugar and fat bound together somehow and airiated. If you want some cake recipes which work great and don't use commercial egg replacer at all then take a looksie at Cherry's site.
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    Quote absentmindedfan
    est solution is to avoid baking on that day and have a drink instead!
    I think that means I'm an alcoholic.
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    Quote Mr Flibble
    I agree with the above comments. Cooking can be artistic but basically it's logical and science based - hence why as a complete geek I'm interested in it. Confectionary making is the ultimate in terms of having to be absolutely scrupulous in terms of measurements and temperatures (particularly tempering and sucrose caramalisation), quickly followed by bread and yeast based stuff. Baking is a little more relaxed, you can use 20% more or less of an ingredient and get away with it, but the same basic principles remain. As it happens egg replacer is completely unnessecary in baking. The egg marketting board or whoever they are have done an amazing job of convincing the population that eggs are needed and as such people who turn vegan seek out direct replacements. Infact all that cakes are is flour, sugar and fat bound together somehow and airiated. If you want some cake recipes which work great and don't use commercial egg replacer at all then take a looksie at Cherry's site.
    Too late. I just spent 6 dollars on a box of powdered egg replacer.
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    I've given up on making anything that rises I'm gonna stick to cheesecakes and biscuits from now on.
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    Hahaha.. I haven't made a vegan cheesecake yet. I tried one at a vegetarian restaurant in Halifax but it wasn't very cheesecakey (but delicious nonetheless).
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    Quote Tigerlily
    Hahaha.. I haven't made a vegan cheesecake yet. I tried one at a vegetarian restaurant in Halifax but it wasn't very cheesecakey (but delicious nonetheless).
    I haven't either- I'm too nervous to!
    I don't think I've even tried any vegan cheesecake.

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    There's some that are made with tofu and others that are made with fake cream cheese. Considering how yummy and 'realistic' the fake cream cheese stuff is, it might make for a delicious cheesecake.
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    It does Go for it Tigerlily

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    Tigerlilly - why did you use a long, thin pan? Was that the size the recipe called for?

    Pan size is very important in baking. You need to adjust temp and/or cooking time if you change the pan size.

    Just a thought...

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    A great replacement for egg is vegan fruity yogurt... makes the coolest spongey muffins with little bubbles in just like a dairy cake!

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    Quote Wildflower
    Tigerlilly - why did you use a long, thin pan? Was that the size the recipe called for?

    Pan size is very important in baking. You need to adjust temp and/or cooking time if you change the pan size.

    Just a thought...
    The only pan we had.
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    Default Re: Grr! I'm so stupid!

    Quote Tigerlily
    I hate how stupid I am. All I wanted was cake, not dense shit.
    I love dense shit - especially if it's sweet, dense shit. Slide the pan of dense shit over here, and you go try again!
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    It's too expensive to try again any time soon but I ate it all. Too late.
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    So it was edible?!? Then it was a success! It was a very large, frosted, somewhat dense...pancake...? Perfect this technique, Tigerlily, and perhaps you will have your own show on the Food Network (ahhhh, vegan dreams....!)
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    No, it had a mettalic aftertaste.
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    sometimes it just goes wrong.. it'd hard making the perfect cak, but i've now found the recipe for a really good one and i'll share it now.

    THE BEST VEGAN CHOCOLATE/ORANGE CAKE EVER.

    1 kg. all-purpose flour
    1 kg. cane sugar
    100 g. cocoa
    500 g. melted margarine
    6 tsk. Baking soda
    2 tsk. Vanilla powder
    3 oranges
    4-5 dl. boiling water

    mix the dry ingredients, and the orange skin. then you pour the melted margarine and the orange juice and the boiling water into the mix and mix it. (don't whip it!)
    bake it for about 40 minutes on 200 degrees celcius.

    it's the most delicious, cheap vegan cake i've ever tried in my life and it's sooo god after a day or two.

    WARNING! the recipe makes a HUUGE cake. so maybe you'd like to divide it a bit

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