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Trying to bake a sponge cake....

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BustleInYourHedgerow · 30/06/2010 22:09

That is light and fluffy and not greasy and heavy with a giant frakkin' hole in the middle. My second attempt was slightly better than my first. (Bit less greasy, bit less heavy, smaller hole in the middle.)

I am a good cook, I just never bake things. And when I cook, I generally just feck things in the mix and taste as I go along. Can't do that with baking so I think that's why I generally avoid it

DS's first birthday the end of July and I'm determined to make a nice cake for it.

Oh, I'm using Nigella's recipe, which is supposedly fool proof...and I have an electric fan oven, so I think I'm messing up the time and the temperature maybe? Or am I mixing the mixture too much?

That was a bit long winded...can anybody who hasn't fallen asleep reading this please tell me where they think I might be going wrong?

TIA

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MrsDinky · 02/07/2010 23:06

Bustle - you've just reminded me of something. My mum has had her double oven for 35 years, she spent the first 30 of those using the fan oven and thinking she was a useless baker, then she tried the top oven and now she makes great cakes!

Olihan - I've just added your "bible" to my Amazon wish list....

minxina · 25/03/2011 09:02

im making a rectangle 12x10 victorian sponge cake... i know how to make it usially but its normally a smaller round version and im not too sure on the ingridients... iv read through this but its a bit confusing i dont suppose anyone could try to explain it to me.. Confused please x

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