Thread: Let them eat Convection Oven cake!

That's Leo for you - should have chang'd it

Originally Posted by Mendip

But the only thing that matters, and what it's all about at the end of the day...

One happy camper!

Well done dad. That smile says it all. Your attention to your daughter is commendable.

Originally Posted by Mendip

There… stick that in yer pipe Delia. Never seen ya do that in one of yer fancy books!!!

Green owed!! That is epic!!

Originally Posted by Mendip

One happy camper!

The little lady is happy and that is all that counts!!

^ Thanks!

You can answer me a question now please... since I joined this forum a few people have been kind enough to give me these greens. How can I do that? I'm not being rude by never giving them, but I get no green or red button or any way if doing it that I can see. Do I need to be a member longer?

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Woohoo.

Originally Posted by Mendip

since I joined this forum a few people have been kind enough to give me these greens. How can I do that??

Click on the star.

Too late Nev.

I can testify he now knows how to send

Dad and daughter are happy even if the cakes are sad. That'll teach you to open the oven early....

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"I approve" will give a green (and add some points). "I disapprove" will give a red (and take away some points).

^ My daughter's a great kid. She called them 'Yummy' so as not to hurt my feelings.

^^^ And as for the repo question, I've got it now, thanks!

Got out of synch there a bit, you guys post too fast!

Great job dad and daughter!

The secret to a cake, especially a sponge cake, not falling is to leave it alone in the oven until fully baked. Opening an oven door or even a good bump to the pan will flatten your cake. I’ve no idea why this happens.

^Sudden drops in temperature.

Just to mention I'm happy to receive greens and/or cakes.

^ Cake sent.

No comment needed really...

I think my problems go past butter.

Made a sausage casserol last night in the oven and couldn't get it to start simmering. Even at max temp of 250 degrees. I think the Klass has had its day. May have to join the Otto club!

Cracking thread. Convection oven, airline cutlery, an angle grinder cakes and a happy kid. Got it all.

^ Give 'em a sugar rush from the cup cakes and now we really have got it all...

Bit concerning though... 3 boys...

Excellent thread, thanks for the memories.

I was a bit hesitant about going near the kitchen again after the response to my poached pla nin this week... But, the little 'un wanted to make cup cakes again, and besides, I'd sat down for at least 12 minutes so it was time to get up and do something. And there was unfinished business with this cup cake cooking malarkey.

If you're wondering why the father seems to be responsible for cooking lessons in our household, well so am I. But all said and done, if it wasn't for my daughter, the dogs and the chickens, along with regular work trips, I think I'd go insane living in Isaan. You've gotta keep busy in these places.

So, it was back to the old faithful recipe.



After the last disaster we decided to stick to the recipe like glue.

First up, as with every successful recipe, fresh ingredients. Down to the chicken run.



Thank you Gladys! Eggs warm and one still wet from the chicken. You don't get fresher than that!



All the ingredients now ready.



Eggs weighed 210 grams, so 210 grams of flour, sugar and butter all into the bowl, along with a teaspoon of baking powder.





This was all transferred to the food blender in strict accordance to the recipe.



At this stage the little 'un decided on chocolate cup cakes. After a bit of panic I found this, that I must have picked up from a boat at work sometime judging by the Norwegian writing. Looks chocolatey...



So, in it went.



As usual when I try anything adventurous in the kitchen something goes wrong. The bladdy food blender just went on and on but didn't do anything. In the end, smoke started coming out of the back, so after trying to hand mix the stuff in the food blender...



... we gave up and transferred it all back into the bowl for some proper old fashioned stirring. Once finished, out came the trusty custom-made cake tins.



The gloop was decanted with precision (I wish she would concentrate that hard on her school work).



And the finished product, all ready for the oven.



And while the serious business got started...



... the raw cakes went into the Klass convection oven.



I decided on 200 degrees rather than the recipe's recommended 165 degrees. I've long had the suspicion that this Klass convection oven is a piece of shit and doesn't get anywhere near the indicated temperature. Everyone else seems to use the Otto, yet my wife saw this Klass on some telesales channel on the tv and had to have it. These telesales offers are great, you pay three times what you pay at Makro for some obscure make that no-one ever buys or uses. Although to be fair, the Klass has been used more often than the hair straighteners that were snapped up in another telesales offer. They are still in the box - I guess not much call for hair straighteners in Thailand...

Anyway, I went with the same double-decker method of baking to fit everything in the oven in one go, set the timer for thirty minutes (a bit extra for luck) and then went outside. I was determined not to open the oven early this time after all the advice previously.

And.... thirty minutes later we hear the Klass 'ding', and...



Wow!!!



Twelve pretty perfect chocolate cup cakes!

Well, to be exact six perfect cup cakes and six that were a little underdone. The perfect ones were from the top floor in the oven, the slightly flat ones from the bottom floor.

After twenty minutes of cooling in preparation of decorating the flat cup cakes started going a bit concave...



But, all things considered a resounding success!



Irrefutable proof that you can indeed bake cup cakes in a convection oven! (so long as you only bake six at a time on the top level).

Now where was I, finally I can sit down again... maybe time for an episode of 'Bake Off'...