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Oh my, I've just made that lemon drizzle traybake for the first time....

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petunia · 12/10/2006 14:11

...and it's gooood! DD's had 4 squares of it already! Can I freeze it OK?

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blossomsmine · 29/03/2009 16:52

I just kind of put my cakes in and hope for the best and just check until they look right lol! The last one was fine

FairLadyRantALot · 29/03/2009 16:54

well, I always prick my cakes to see about readyness....which wiht the drizzlecake is perfect, seeign that you have to prick it anyway, lol

chatname · 29/03/2009 17:36

Thanks!It was quite interesting. The tin is square but can be partitioned off,so effectively becomes 16 little tins.

The cakes are quite nice but a bit drier than I expected.

Various possible reasons for this.

The cakes took almost as long to cook as 1 big cake would have done, 35ish minutes, to my surprise.

Maybe smaller cakes would tend to be drier anyway,more surface area for moisture to evaporate etc.

It might be that my oven temperature settings are off (I could check this).

The tin instructions for cooking mini-cakes suggested,for a Victoria sponge,a higher setting for a shorter time,so that might give an improved result.

There seemed to be a lot of seepage of lemon juice and icing into the bottom of the tin. With a bigger cake,maybe that moisture would get reabsorbed more easily.

Also,I used paper cases,so that might prevent moisture being absorbed.

I'd be interested,however, to know what other people think,especially who might have used that recipe to make small cakes.

blossomsmine · 29/03/2009 18:55

chatname, don't know if your cakes will hang around at all, but i found mine became moister (is that a word!?) after a couple of days! Not sure why that would happen?

akhems · 30/03/2009 17:57

just made this and it's been in the oven for nearly an hour now and is still liquid in the middle... any advice pleeeeeease??

blossomsmine · 30/03/2009 22:02

Only just seen this, sorry!!

I suppose its done now?? Hope it was ok??

Mine took longer than expected, i turned the oven down and left it in longer and it turned out ok.

How was yours in the end??

I am making another tomorrow so will time it exactly so that we know in future!

FairLadyRantALot · 30/03/2009 23:03

akhems...did it bake alright in the end?
Does your oven work properly?

blossomsmine · 30/03/2009 23:15

Fairlady, funny you say that about the oven, as i have been wondering if mine is working properly lately, things taking longer than usual etc.,

I am going to borrow an oven thermometer and test it i think.

akhems · 31/03/2009 11:17

it came out ok.. bit crumbly but tasted gorgeous

afaik my oven is ok but it is about 15 years old so who knows?

blossomsmine · 31/03/2009 19:39

akhems, some people have mentioned theres was abit crumbly, mine seemed to get softer after a day or two.

Hope you enjoy

I am making another one tonight for a friend!

FairLadyRantALot · 31/03/2009 20:42

like I said earlier, I add more milk than advised in the recipe....to mkae it a softer consistency...and so far it hasn't been dry or crumbly....bviously not to over do it wiht the milk, don't want a runny consistency...

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