Please come and hold my hand and reassure me that I CAN bake a bloody cake.

[MrsJasonBourne]

Because all the evidence is pointing to the contrary.

Just made a lovely lemon drizzle cake. Exactly the same way as I last made it. Well it would have been lovely if it had cooked all the way through. It was perfect on the outside and raw mixture on the inside. [sob]

Either I put too much liquid in it and made it soggy or I had the oven too hot and cooked the outside first.

Either way I bloody give up.

Anyone got any idiot-proof cake recipes I can try?

Did you not skewer it to test??
Try this

Did you cook it in a loaf tin or in a tray bake tin? I had similar results with a loaf tin, tray results fine.

BBC good food naughty chocolate fudge cake. So easy. Yummy too . Google it.

Did you preheat the oven? What oven do you use?
How much liquid did you use?

I used the same loaf tin that I used last time.

I did preheat the oven. It's a fan assisted oven. I have had trouble with cakes in it before but this one has been lovely before.

I don't think I should have put the lemon juice in the cake mixture. I think I should have left it for soaking on afterwards.

It's sitting there in the kitchen, staring at me.

I think it was too much liquid. The recipe I use is MarsLady's on here, and just use the zest in the cake itself and then use the lemon juice for the icing/ "feeding" the cake afterwards.

Put it back in the oven on about 150 for 10 minutes then check with a skewer or knife.

it might not look nice but at least it'll be edible!

If in doubt, serve with custard or double cream

Thank you, I think you're right, it was too much liquid.

Have scribbled a note across my recipe to remind me next time.

[Sigh]

And yes, for LDC there is only ONE recipe

LovelyMarsLady's Lemon Drizzle
I have tasted it as made by the lady herself
it is AMAZING.

When it says a lined tray. Does that mean rectangle? Not a round cake tin? I am a novice. How big?

Can someone teach me how to crochet too?

A tray is a wide shallow rectangle

A loaf tin is a deep narrow rectangle

A round cake tin is, well, round

The only difference is the shape of the cake and the length of ckking time - the deeper the cake, the longer heat will take to get to the middle.

I did carrot cake the other day, which should take 40 minutes to cook. I did mine as muffins (there were supposed to be some going in the freezer ) and they took 25 minutes.

Tufty, if you're near enough to the New Forest/Southampton then we could do with some help on the MN blankets and you can have free lessons

Thank you purple I'm too far from Southampton unfortunately buy if I ever learn to crochet urchins to help.