Could you cook a simple cake?

[jack]

In the spirit of scientific enquiry:

I make a cake every month or more often
I make a cake a couple of times a year
I've occasionally made a cake
I learnt when I was younger, but couldn't remember how now
My parents (or similar) taught me.
I was taught at school.
I was supposedly taught at school, but it didn't really help
I said I could, but actually they don't turn out very well
Brown cow
Lemons

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Comments

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

I don't make nearly as many cakes as I did when I lived in Cambridge and went to poohsoc regularly.

excelsoira taught me how to cook (mainly) while I was in the third year including cakes.

Sometimes I follow a recipe as is or take several recipes pick the bits I like about them a make something combining these.

Sometimes I have an ingredient and I think I'll make a cake out of it, so search for a cake to make. Such as when there were several bottles of open red wine left after poohsoc anniversary dinner and I decided I should bake a cake out of them. Result being Red Wine Cake

Sponges are generally good as you can put almost anything in them as flavour. Not sure if you were there when we made the Banana Curry Cake for poohsoc (Banana and Garum Masala flavoured sponge cake)...

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Oooh, the Banana Curry Cake sounds absolutely wonderful! I have some Punjabi masala which would work very well, being quite heavy on the cardamom.

Could I have the recipe? Pretty please? :-)

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

Sadly it never got written down.

From memory it was something like:

Make basic sponge mixture add 1 banana (mashed) and spice. Bake mixture as usual.

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Many thanks! That sounds good, but I think it might be even better done as a sort of tea-loaf thing (you know, like a date and walnut cake), rather than a classic Victoria sponge. Jack will confirm that I am a semi-obsessive Indian cook, but I'm intrigued by the idea of a fusion recipe. I'm going to work on this... :-)