All through one of the blisteringly sizzling heatwaves we had in France ultimate summer season, I equipped to take a cake to a yard occasion. The occasion was once to have a laugh every a couple of birthdays and a wedding anniversary so I needed it to be a bit of specific.
Bundt muffins are great for large gatherings as they’re incessantly decrease smartly into quite a few narrow slices. Most people shouldn’t have a large slice of cake at a birthday celebration, just a taste of it. For this explicit occasion the host asked for a lemon cake so I picked a recipe that I had used quite a few cases previous than with large luck.
This time, it went horribly incorrect.
I have no idea why.
Irrespective of using a excellent slathering of hand-crafted cake release the cake stuck firmly to the tin. I had that sinking feeling as I inverted the tin. Instead of the welcome sound of a cake plopping cleanly out onto the plate – not anything. No amount of tapping, shaking or cursing would convince it to go back out. In spite of everything it landed at the plate with a excellent 3rd of it nevertheless stuck contained within the tin. Rats !!
I puzzled if the over the top sugar content material subject matter combined with the over the top ambient temperature had something to do with it. I in truth don’t have any sensible reason why a recipe that has worked utterly previous than should fail me now – and on such an important match, too!
That’s the means it appeared the sooner time I made it!
I put my taking into consideration cap on and made a quick adventure to the nearest grocery retailer. Which was once no longer that speedy as this is a twenty minute power away. We have a selection of 2 supermarkets – twenty mins away in one trail or ten mins inside the opposite – alternatively that one closes for two hours at lunchtime. (One of the somewhat old fashioned choices of existence in rural France.) So it was once Hobson’s selection as I headed for Descartes seeking fresh strawberries.
I was in good fortune and armed with two punnets of strawberries I was ready to rescue the cake.
I sliced off the ragged top of the cake where it had stuck to the tin, spread it with a excellent coating of whipped cream, filled the middle and adorned the absolute best with strawberries and added a final flourish of strips of lemon zest and a sprinkling of freeze dried strawberries. It appeared very good for a summer season yard occasion and tasted delicious! Nobody asked any awkward questions so I had no should confess that it was once very nearly a huge disaster!