oughtta have my own baking show
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aamcnamaraBaking Adventures With Alena, volume II: Mug microwave cake.
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epicrauko had these at her party last weekend, and I thought, "I should try that sometime." Tonight, having finished a thirteen-page math paper and successfully tromped through the snow to print it out, I decided it was a good time to test this notion.
I started out with this recipe. Obviously, it needs some modification. Different flour, no milk, no egg, no cocoa or chocolate chips, and while I can eat and in fact have oil, it's in a huge bottle and there is no way that's fitting in my tiny dorm fridge.
Oh, and I don't have any sugar, so I used maple syrup.
Things necessary for this undertaking:
Rice flour, oat flour, millet flour
Baking powder
Xanthan gum
Applesauce
Maple syrup
Dried cranberries
...so, y'know, pretty much what your average college student has kicking around her dorm room.
Please note that the recipe that follows is what I did. It was not unconditionally successful.
Put into a mug:
3 tbsp rice flour, 1 tbsp oat flour, 1 tbsp millet flour.
1/4 or so tsp baking powder
A small bit of xanthan gum (an eighth of a teaspoon?)
Stir this.
Take a serving-size container of applesauce. Put in as much as looks right. (Slightly less than half? You can tell I do a lot of baking by ear, as it were.) Add a few slugs of maple syrup, until it's sort of swamped the applesauce in gloopy brown deliciousness. Stir. Stick some dried cranberries on top.
Stir.
Cook for three minutes in a microwave. Eat the rest of the applesauce while you are waiting for it to be done. Hope your microwave does not plug into an outlet with a timer switch on it which shuts off every thirty seconds like the one in my dorm does. Hover nervously over the timer switch if it does.
Traps my attempt fell into: too much xanthan gum. (It's strong stuff.) Not enough maple syrup. Should have added a splash or two of rice milk to even out the consistency, or possibly a splash of oil, after all.
Still, a valuable first experiment.
Verdict: edible, but could be better.
epicrauko had these at her party last weekend, and I thought, "I should try that sometime." Tonight, having finished a thirteen-page math paper and successfully tromped through the snow to print it out, I decided it was a good time to test this notion.I started out with this recipe. Obviously, it needs some modification. Different flour, no milk, no egg, no cocoa or chocolate chips, and while I can eat and in fact have oil, it's in a huge bottle and there is no way that's fitting in my tiny dorm fridge.
Oh, and I don't have any sugar, so I used maple syrup.
Things necessary for this undertaking:
Rice flour, oat flour, millet flour
Baking powder
Xanthan gum
Applesauce
Maple syrup
Dried cranberries
...so, y'know, pretty much what your average college student has kicking around her dorm room.
Please note that the recipe that follows is what I did. It was not unconditionally successful.
Put into a mug:
3 tbsp rice flour, 1 tbsp oat flour, 1 tbsp millet flour.
1/4 or so tsp baking powder
A small bit of xanthan gum (an eighth of a teaspoon?)
Stir this.
Take a serving-size container of applesauce. Put in as much as looks right. (Slightly less than half? You can tell I do a lot of baking by ear, as it were.) Add a few slugs of maple syrup, until it's sort of swamped the applesauce in gloopy brown deliciousness. Stir. Stick some dried cranberries on top.
Stir.
Cook for three minutes in a microwave. Eat the rest of the applesauce while you are waiting for it to be done. Hope your microwave does not plug into an outlet with a timer switch on it which shuts off every thirty seconds like the one in my dorm does. Hover nervously over the timer switch if it does.
Traps my attempt fell into: too much xanthan gum. (It's strong stuff.) Not enough maple syrup. Should have added a splash or two of rice milk to even out the consistency, or possibly a splash of oil, after all.
Still, a valuable first experiment.
Verdict: edible, but could be better.