I have just blown my 17 year old ds's mind....

[BertrandRussell]

He was late this morning so I did his lunch for him. I made a cake yesterday that was iced on the top only, so I cut a slice in half and turned the top bit over so the icing was In the middle and wouldn't get everywhere. He has just texted genuinely amazed at my brilliance. Who knew being supermum was so easy.......

Very; as I said to DH before we saw it, the clue is in the title.

Ah that’s nice @ the assembly! Good for him!

I don’t have any life hacks that dd will be proud of yet. Following this thread with interest!

34 and no sugar!!!!!

No purple

That looks an ace fudge cake recipe - thanks Bertrand.

My hack for unfaffy and stress-relieving ganache. Take bar of dark chocolate. A thinnish one in cardboard wrapper works best. DO NOT UNWRAP. Whack it very hard against edge of kitchen worktop several times. Feel instantly better. Heat equal quantity of cream in microwave. Open chocolate and shoot smithereens of chocolate from foil into hot cream. Stir very gently until all bits melted. Ta-dah!

No knives, no chopping, no poncing about with saucepans of hot water.

The cupcake thing has floored me.
And I really really want a vanilla slice now. Except, even if you turn the top of the vanilla slice over, HOW do you bite into it without custard flopping out the sides?
It's the hard pastry to squishy filling dynamic that just doesn't work.
Doesn't everyone eat them with a spoon in a bowl like what I do? (Using the pastry bit to scoop up custard. Alone. So I can eat the other one after.)

Seeing as you're all so great at sarnies and everything, can you help with my lifelong difficulty?
I love cheese triangles, but they are buggers to slice thinly enough to cover a slice of bread. How do you do it?

Whack it very hard against edge of kitchen worktop several times. Feel instantly better.

I love cheese triangles, but they are buggers to slice thinly enough to cover a slice of bread. How do you do it?

Do you mean like dairylea? Can't you just spread them?

Ahh.. I see now. I do this too with round fillings. It wasn’t originally said that it was the filling being cut up... it looked to be a round sandwich!
😂

You cut thinly? Don't you spread? Dairylea?

it looked to be a round sandwich!

There's something rather pleasing about round fillings in milk roll bread. OTOH, if you've got round bread and square filling, IME the best thing is to trim the excess filling with scissors and drop into the dog.

Ganache hack duly noted!

You are joking about the cheese triangles, aren't you?

Fornitela I'm doing sausage
mash and frozen peas for dinner- "the processed meat the carbs!" -and he will probably eat 4 sausages - "the calories! the greed One sausage is plenty- maybe one and a half because he's been playing rugby....."

If I only make one layer of sponge cake I cut it in half and put cream in the 'middle' and sandwich it, ending up with half of a 2 layer sponge iyswim - learned it from my Mum, thought everybody did it!

God Bertrand, don't you know there's an obesity crisis? Maybe you've lost sight of what your son should look like? Can you see his ribs??

OK-I am a bit wary of sharing this-I think it might be a bit much for some people. But I have people allergic to chocolate in my family. So sometimes I make make a Victoria sandwich, but I fill one tin, then mix some cocoa into the rest of the batter for the other tin. Then I make two half cakes, fit them together and ice over the top with non chocolate icing. This used to amuse my children hugely.

IfNotNow-he's an adult. I wouldn't dream of looking at his ribs! Have you no respect for boundaries??

Yeah, I thought rib-checking was just for dogs especially if you employ them as sandwich scrap disposal units.

What do you do with the hybrid cake?

Does Billy Bear ham count as 'naice' ham??

More of a chimeric cake than a hybrid, I think.

What do you think she does with it?

Does Billy Bear ham count as 'naice' ham??

It doesn't even count as ham.