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Tilly2 | 16:36 Wed 23rd Jan 2019 | Food & Drink
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I have just made Delia's cake of the week...damp gingerbread. I followed the instructions precisely and yet the cake is as flat as a pancake, just like any other cake I've ever tried to bake.

That's it now! Never again.

It might be ok, in a dish with some custard poured over but to look at it looks like a miserable excuse for a cake. What a waste of time and money. I even bought a new cake tin to bake it in.

What do I always do wrong?
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Is your bicarb of soda out of date?
16:57 Wed 23rd Jan 2019
I can do yorkies Tilly- Aunt Bessie's frozen nes
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Rocky, just looked at the baking powder...guess what?

2008!
Baking is a precise operation, all ingredients must be weighed meticulously, the oven must be pre warmed at the right temperature and the door should never be opened during baking
bicarb out of date..there's the issue..same happens with out of date yeast when baking bread !
So have you always tried baking cakes with out of date bicarb Tilly?
it should have matured in the tin by now like a fine wine, ladybirder
Well, she has since 2008 ;)
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I had the chip the baking soda off the bottom of the tub.
:-(

Told you it was the cake gods. They must have swapped your actual baking powder for some duff stuff.
Just checking - you did use bicarbonate of soda and not baking powder (both have been mentioned....)
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I used baking powder or some old cocaine. :-)

Is baking powder not the same as Bicarb?
Tilly, I must confess I cheat using Wright cakes mixes. They are perfect and you can add whatever you want to the mix.
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I might give cake mixes a go, Sharon, or buy some in-date ingredients.
No,baking powder has cream of tartar added to bicarb. Not that I know if that's what went wrong, sorry.
With the cake mixes instead of oil and water use melted butter and milk
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Oil? In cakes? Really?

I have never bought a cake mix...oil?
Yes the cake mixes use oil, but I was told by an American friend that if you replace it with melted butter it comes out bett
Better
http://www.veggies.org.uk/catering/recipes/cakes-desserts/what-is-the-difference-between-baking-soda-baking-powder/

I used to use baking soda to clean the terminals of my car batteries, back in the day when you could keep up your own car without a bank of computers.
When I make a coconut cake with the mix, I use coconut milk.
Fruit cakes, I use orange juice.

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