Social Saturday - The Story of a Cake

If you follow me on Facebook you know I made a cake last week. And not just any cake, but a cake I was pretty certain I had downright destroyed then miraculously brought back to life! I thought I would share the story of what happened today. It comes from trying to bake while simultaneously cooking dinner, keeping a 1 year old from having a fit, and entertaining a very chatty 3 year old. Distracted much? Can you believe I messed up the very first step in the recipe? I even looked at it twice to be sure because it didn’t sound right! *sigh*So here’s the low down. I’ve been itching to try this strawberry yogurt cake ever since I put together the list of 27 Recipes for Fresh Strawberries. The first step is very typical: cream together the butter and sugar. For whatever reason, I completely overlooked the fact that granulated sugar was at the top of the ingredient list. I creamed it with the powdered sugar at the end of the ingredient list! This pretty much fouled up the batter from the start.By the time I had all of the ingredients in (still having overlooked the granulated sugar!), my batter was the consistency of bread dough.Doh!

Luckily I was able to add some milk and get the consistency back to what it should have been. Then I added some sugar to get the taste right.Finally baking it about 30 minutes longer than it called for because this is now one.dense.cake.BUT, it turned out sooooo yummy!Ah, a happy ending. 🙂Let’s hear your latest baking disasters!