I couldn't make Eva's cake because I couldn't find both cake pans.

[conuly]

I finally found the second one and felt really silly - we'd stuck it under the air conditioner to catch the drips a few months ago! It stopped dripping, but we never retrieved the pan.

So I made a chocolate cake, as always. Do you know how hard it is to make a cake without a beater? We used to have a really good manual beater, but that got lost years ago, and I couldn't find both parts of the electric one.

Making the cake batter wasn't so hard, but frosting with a spoon? Eesh. The trick is to add your liquid right at the start. I don't usually even put milk or anything in my frosting, but I did it this time.

Anyway, it was delicious. Everything I make is delicious, and don't forget it!

I shouldn't be typing, really, my left point finger hurts from, probably, typing too much. But I had to update sooner or later :)

(Also, Evangeline is six now. Yay! She still takes naps, though.)

Comments

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Do you know how hard it is to make a cake without a beater? We used to have a really good manual beater, but that got lost years ago, and I couldn't find both parts of the electric one.

WHat are these strange things of which you speak?

I make cakes fairly often. Sometimes I use the wire whisk. (Is that what you mean by "manual beater"?) Sometimes I use the old-fashioned wooden spoon with a hole in it (you can buy them most places, the hole improves batter flow). Only in the case of something really labor-intensive like angel food do I get all MORE POWER! and drag out the stand mixer. (I don't even own a hand mixer. Go big or go home, dammit.)

Frosting is harder with only a wire whisk, but not impossible. (I often serve cakes with just a dusting of powdered or a thin pourable glaze, neither of which require the sheer muscle of a thick spreadable frosting--if I am making buttercream, the stand mixer is coming out again.)

[conuly]

No, we had an egg beater with a crank instead of an electric one, and it worked really well.

And I only ever make buttercream frostings.