Jul 2, 2018
Cake Fail!
It was that time of year, my boyfriends birthday rolled around. The baker in me wanted to make a cake for him, but I had no oven. I talked to my friend and she said she had an "oven" setting on her microwave... Me being naive and all, I went for it!
It was a very busy day. I mixed the batter in my kitchen and then I took it over to her place. I put it in the "oven" for the amount of time that the recipe called for. The timer dinged, I hopefully peaked at my creation, just to realize it wasn't cooked hardly at all. My hope tarnished, my trust of the Japanese oven temperature setting dwindled. I still tried to see what would happen if I cooked it longer.
I finally got it to a point to were it was cooked thoroughly, after around 3 hours. Then I took it home to ice it, to realize there were essentially two layers, somehow the egg separated or something, regardless, it was awful. There are no pictures because I was disappointed... Hahaha...
My experience with the Japanese oven was not good, but I was short on time. I only had 3 more hours until I was to meet up with my boyfriend. In desperation I ran to the closest grocery store, grabbed the premade sponge cake slices, ice cream, snickers, and oreos. I decided to throw an ice cream cake together... It worked!
I rode my bike with the cake 15 minutes to his house to surprise him with it. It was a little on the melty side, and there are still stains in his apartment hallway from it. He swears that it was delicious. I am still proud to this day.
So moral of the story: don't trust the "oven" setting. Haha...
Teacher, Traveler, Dancer
Currently living in Gifu
I love Japan, dance, cats, food, and fashion!
6 Comments
Candiajia1
on Jul 2
Hahaha! so sorry you had that experience.......but I'm happy you have tried and decided to share it. perhaps next time you could try making him a raw cake. I have loads of favourites I could share. This week my husband will be having his birthday and I will be making him a raw vegan cake. will share the outcome
ReishiiTravels
on Jul 2
@Candiajia1 Yes, please! I would love to see some!
YokoLostinJapan
on Jul 5
When buying our microwave I took care that we pay more and buy rather an oven than a normal microwave because I was planing to back cookies, cake, ... from time to time. Luckily it is working pretty well ^^' If you have a rice cooker, there are also some recipe to back cakes with this one.
ReishiiTravels
on Jul 5
@YokoLostinJapan Can you tell me which one you bought? I am looking to for a good oven! :)
YokoLostinJapan
on Jul 5
@ReishiiTravels That is it ^^ http://amzn.asia/6nL7L97
ReishiiTravels
on Jul 5
@YokoLostinJapan Thank you!