Baking cakes

Who would have thought that self raising flour was still so hard to get hold of!

So, hubby went grocery shopping at the weekend and came back with plain flour. The shelves were empty. That’s okay I thought, I have baking powder to add to it. I had made a couple of cakes a few weeks ago and decided that I would make them again.

All my ingredients were measured out and I was ready to go. Now, I don’t use an awful lot of plain flour, so I googled how much baking powder was needed to be put into the flour. I was ready to go and started mixing the ingredients together and with both cakes made and poured into greased cake tins they were put into a pre-heated oven.

I left the cakes to cook away and tidied up after myself. As I put everything away into the cupboard I read what I had actually used in the flour. It was actually bicarbonate of soda. Now I didn’t know what was going to happen to my cakes, other than them not rising. They both looked different and when the time was up to take them out of the oven, they had both not risen, as I had expected.

I thought I was going to have to throw them both away, but when hubby and I tasted them, they didn’t taste to bad.

A lesson learnt!

Check that you are using baking powder with plain flour and not bicarbonate of soda and your cakes will both rise and taste better.

Smile and have a happy day 🙂