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[which_chick]

I'm in the middle of making the cake (the one I practiced up for last weekend). As I've said, I only make the one cake. I could make other cakes -- they're not terribly difficult -- but I don't like any other cake as well as I like this one. If I made some other cake, I'd be all irritated with it for not being the proper cake. Since most people do not like their cake served with a side of grumbling over how it's not the proper cake, it's easier to just make the proper cake and save everyone a little heartache. Or, y'know, I could make pie instead. I do that a lot.

Anyway, I'm taking a survey. How many of all ya'll out there in reader-land have ever made an honest-to-dog cake from scratch, using ingredients like sugar, eggs, butter, and flour? If it came from Mr. Hines or that Crocker woman, it doesn't count. Box cake is not good enough. Show of hands, or whatever: Have you ever baked a cake? Did it come out okay? Tell me about your cake experiences or lack thereof.

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[cassandramorgan.livejournal.com]

I baked a cake with a little help from my mother. (Mostly guidance because I tend to second-guess myself when I cook.) My grandmother has handed down this awesome chocolate chip cake recipe but...as all handed down recipes seem....it's only partial instructions. So we all kinda wing it a bit and that is where I start to second guess myself.


Anyway, it turned out pretty good. Not as good as my grandmother used to make but then again, she had the full recipe committed to memory.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

All my family recipes are sort of incomplete, too. When I figure out how they're supposed to be made, to taste right, I make notes so that I don't have to figure it out more than once.

[cassandramorgan.livejournal.com]

That's what we're currently working on. Unfortunately, no one wrote that stuff down when my grandmother was still around to remember the missing pieces.