Someone please tell me how it all went so wrong...

[furrytoebean]

I followed the recipe like I've done a million times before

And yet when I turned it out the loaf tin this happened.

Where did it all go so wrong?

So you've done this successfully before? What was the recipe?

Did you bake it in the tumble dryer?

When I turn out something like that, I almost certainly forgot sth important by thinking I'd already used it and putting it away again.
(stone bread anyone?).

You say you turned it out...from how many meters?

I don't even know what that is. Is it a ravaged roast chicken?

I would have turned it out onto a trivet, rather than the floor... from an upstairs window... [lol]

Did you forget to put something important in?

Were raccoons involved?

Seriously, I reckon it's dodgy flour or you forgot a major ingredient. Poor batches of flour can wreck cakes.

You made the mistake of turning it out from the top of building?

This is what happened when MNs keep bunging, chucking and throwing stuff about while cooking!

*happens

Did some sneaky spoony fucker stir in something extra while your back was turned?

Did you forget the eggs? It looks like it collapsed because it had nothing to give it any structure...

I’d still eat it.

Didn't let it cool in the tin for long enough so it collapsed on turning out? Our kitchen is about the same temp as the oven at the moment so things take about 3 days to cool down.

Tin not greased/lined enough, so it stuck and ripped?

at all these comments.

So it's a vegan banana bread recipe that I use maybe once a week and normally it's fine.

The only difference is I put frozen ginger in it and possibly the bananas were a bit smaller than usual.

No one seems to mind though as it still tastes of cake and people are just spooning it into their mouths as they go past. I've put it into a cake tin and Dh has just asked me where 'counter cake' has gone.

Best laugh I have had in ages. Thank you! x

I still would.

Heat doing something to the bananas maybe. Yesterday the skins were thin and black but they were a normal ripeness inside.

No help here op, this was my last attempt at banana bread (which I had done before as well!)

I think it’s rebelling against it’s lack of proper egg.

Did you bake it in the tumble dryer?

😂

I have become wise to the bastardness of banana bread and now make banana muffins instead, which are cunningly contained in a cosy case. Even if they suffer a fatal implosion, all the crumby crap is still kept cornered.

Incidentally, i made a batch on Tuesday and learnt another very valuable lesson. Turns out it’s VERY tricky to shake out flour in front of a fan foofing at full blast ⛄️

Did you forget to use a cake tin?!