{"id":22660,"date":"2026-07-18T20:05:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22660"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:28:54","slug":"daily_4154_-_a_cake_and_b_cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/07\/18\/daily_4154_-_a_cake_and_b_cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4154 – A cake and B cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sheet cake in the freezer is one of my go-to ways of preserving cherries.<\/p>\n

The first one rose nicely and seemed done, but when I took out out of the oven and let it cool for a moment, it collapsed completely. I tried cutting it, and it was like wet gloop. Not at all done. In fact it was so bad that I was going to throw it out without even taking a photo. I can’t recall ever having failed so badly with a cake – and with a familiar recipe, to boot!<\/p>\n

Well, that’s a whole lot of fruit wasted. I guess I’ll make another attempt, then, and bake it for longer.<\/p>\n

The second cake came out the way it’s supposed to. More or less – the surface has larger pores than some previous versions, for some reason.<\/p>\n

I then had the idea of putting the first one back in the oven again. The oven was already hot, the cake was right there, I had nothing to lose. It wouldn’t bake properly, but maybe I could get something biscuit-like out of it? It would be dense and probably dry, but maybe I could use it for some kind of dessert at least.<\/p>\n

I was entirely shocked to see the cake start rising again in the oven. I didn’t even think that was possible. The bubbles are supposed to be gone, the baking powder had its one chance. But no – the cake rose, and if I didn’t know its history, I would probably not have guessed that there was anything wrong with it. When I took it out again, it behaved perfectly normally.<\/p>\n

It looks a mess, there are odd crater-like rings around the cherries, and the texture is not as even. But it is totally and absolutely a fully decent sheet cake. B-tier quality, but far from garbage.<\/p>\n


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