Birthday cake - help no oven!

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Oven has given up the ghost and, with only limited time to organise a replacement involving a probable wiring upgrade, not likely to be resolved soon. What is the best alternative method for baking a cake for dd's birthday please? I have :-
Breadmaker
Slowcooker
Pressure king pro
Halogen cooker
Microwave
Many thanks !

I've made sponge cake in the slow cooker, it came out really well!

She could have a second cake once your oven is fixed.

That's part of the pressure - if she goes to insurance uni there may not be an opportunity.

Oven probably not worth fixing, cheap one , over 15 years old, think heating element has gone (took out power in house at weekend and no longer heating up).

Any tried and tested recipes for slow cooker cake?

Fridge cake or giant ricekrispie cake were going to be my suggestion.

What about a steamed syrup or jam or chocolate sponge?

Any (quality) shop bought sponge, doused in brandy, filled with posh double/butter cream (tinned mandarins, fresh raspberries, frozen fruits of the Forest etc), covered in bought icing, and then go way OTT on decorations...sparklers, flowers, etc .

Good luck....I’m all in favour of ‘cheating’.

Here's a basic sponge:
125g self raising flour, 125g butter, 125g sugar 2 eggs. Cream sugar and butter then add the eggs, then sift the flour. 1.5hours on high with tea towel under lid. You can double the amount and cook for longer then cut in middle for filling or do 2 of these cakes. You can add chocolate chips, nuts, dried fruit ect to the mixture.

This blogger has loads of UK slow cooker cake recipes bakingqueen74.co.uk/baking-and-making-puddings-in-your-slow-cooker/

Buy a plain white iced cake from a supermarket and ice it fir your dd?

If you’ve got more than 7 days M&S canes to order range are very good.

It's not really gonna be a delicious homemade cake without an oven though anyway. Microwave cakes are fine but they aren't homemade cake

Do you not have any friends/family whose oven you can borrow? Work colleagues?

I would say your only options are some kind of boiled Christmas pudding scenario or microwave sponge or cheesecake. But they are hardly cake, just buy one and make a proper cake asap

Why can't you use someone elses oven?

Unless you can cook it in a friend’s or family oven, it’s not going to be a nice cake. It’s certainly not going to be a pleasant memory! I’d Just buy one. Microwaved sponges are disgusting.

I agree that unless you can cook it elsewhere a bought cake would be better.

Order an uniced cake from a bakery and ice it yourself if you want to still have a personal touch.

What about having a trifle instead, and bake her a cake when you have an oven again? If she's off to university soon, you could send her some cake in the post.

There's a Facebook group for pressure king - lots of cake recipes

You can cook a decent sponge cake in a slow cooker. Then decorate how you fancy.

...Well...just buy a cake

ffs buy a cake, use a neighbours, or buy a new oven

I would say just buy one this year, so much easier and will probably taste nicer than a microwaved cake

Update - I found a recipe for microwave lemon sponge cake in an old manual , made a mascapone and lemon filling and lemon/elderflower icing for the top. It was yummy, had even light crumb and looked great although I had my doubts when cooking and cooling as it comes out wet to touch. Used paper liners inside a round pyrex roaster.