Thursday, November 18, 2010

biggest fail ever


Sorry to spoil the outcome of this post in the title, but really, there's no avoiding the inevitable. I'm not even going to post this on a Tuesday and suggest that you try it. In fact, I highly recommend that you learn from my misfortune on this one.

My lovely friend HH passed along a link to this blog, which suggests an alternative to cake making — simply add one can of pop to a cake mix and the results will be fluffy and delicious. Sounds easy enough.

If you used diet pop, it would even cut down significantly on the calories, but I can't have artificial sweeteners, so I went with regular Pepsi.

This was so easy that I did it with Baby J snuggled in my Mobi Wrap. I popped it in the oven and carried on with my other chores.

The cake smelled yummy as it was cooking. I took it out of the oven at the appropriate time and let it cool, flipped it over onto the cooling rack, et voila:



I have never had this happen to me before. Hunks of the cake were left in my well-greased pan because the cake was so moist and fluffy that it wouldn't even stay together.

Then, to add insult to injury, this terrible cake wouldn't even stand up to the icing process. A whole batch of my Grammie's peanut butter frosting didn't get to fulfill its cakey destiny.


The results weren't pretty, but they were edible. The cake turned out quite moist and fudgey, which isn't so bad. But you don't have to be a Martha to know that the presentation of this cake is just unacceptable. Don't try it.

8 comments:

  1. it looks fantasticly delicious tho. i think i may try this.

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  2. Do you use Baking Pam? I think you could burn chocolate in a pan and it would still slide out with no worries.

    I once tried to fry my own chicken and it was such a fail that I had to leave the house just to get away from the smell/sight of it.

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  3. also excellent - wilton cake release! i swear by it now... although if your pan was well greased, i don't think the cake release would help this problem... but it's $3 something at bulk barn... i had a friend recommend making a white cake with cherry cola... but i haven't tried it yet.. hmm maybe i won't!! haha

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  4. Thanks for trying it so I don't have to?

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  5. Your lovely friend, HHNovember 18, 2010 at 8:37 PM

    Oh no! It seemed like such a good idea when I read about it! I guess not EVERYTHING I read on the internet is brilliant, haha. :)

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  6. RIP peanut butter frosting. You are so yummy.

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  7. That is absolutely wild! Good for you for giving it a shot. What a crazy and bizarre foodie tale.

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  8. aww sad.. sorry it didn't work out. I have only done it with cupcakes with paper liners!

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