quick quick quick baking question, help now please!

[S1ur]

Right doing this NOW and don't have any evaporated milk or (prob) vanilla extract.

What can I use instead?

TIA

can I boil and reduce normal milk?
Use condensed milk with less sugar in cake?

arrgh cream?????

Or miss it completely theres only 5 tbsps after all?

Just use normal milk?

okay I'm going with condensed unless someone screams noooooooo at me

Thanks wats!!

No one?

Okay then condensed it is.

Condensed will be fine.

Did you find vanilla??

hold on - will search - wait there!

Look at the pumpkin pie thing here - gives you something of an idea of what the substitutes do.

have you got any booze, like rum or brandy...or do you have a vanilla pod?

Oh also this.

And finally this...

Oh thankyou! Okay so condensed ok, just checked- doesn't say unsweetened but I will just put a little bit less sugar in.

Vanilla pods no, bugger. I weirdly have rose farking water why???????????????????? But no vanilla extract!

I have vanilla ice cream?

Stuff vanilla - nigella is a bit obsessed with it - will be fine without.

Don't worry about no vanilla, just go ahead and bake the cake.

Vanilla is over rated IME

Think DD has birthday tomorrow

[frowns with concentration]

Well it is done. But good god I must be out of kilter I have never made so many fuck ups in one sodding cake before. I made too little so had to make another batch, in which I forgot to add salt and cocoa, s'oky I mix them in - then tried to mix the two batches together whilst in baking tin.

At whic point I realised I hadn't put greaseproof paper in, so out cam mix - wash tin, line it, back goes mix. Into oven. Me with wine.

Sigh.

....I think the cake smelled a bit like hash. Is that usual Nigella style or did I make one fuck up too many?

Right off to make sausage rolls - bring it ON Delia!

Blimey Slur

You don't do things by halves, eh???

smells of hash? How old is dd? This might be interesting...