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My elbows are bothering me again, so this will be brief.
I was emailed a super-secret family recipe, so![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
branna and I decided to try that. What transpired was in no way the fault of the recipe.
1. When I told Branna I had a mixer, she pictured one with paddles when what I actually had was one with beaters for whipping cream.
2. The mixing bowls were too small. Branna is probably still picking bits of dried batter off the walls.
3. Apparently "cream the butter and sugar" has a specific meaning that isn't "mix together until well-mixed."
4. The mixer was in no way capable of handling the doughy batter. In fact, just as we finally figured we were finished, it made an exploding noise as we turned it off.
5. The bottom burned.
6. The mixer proved to have died when the exploding noise happened, as we learned when we poured whipping cream into a bowl and attempted to turn it on. I'd just bought it, too. But failed to save the receipt.
7. Due to mixer failure, the dough was not sufficiently stirred, so the cake was full of chewy and inappropriately crunchy bits. It tasted really good, though, so in that sense the recipe stood up impressively under adverse conditions.
8. Tonight: snickerdoodles!
I was emailed a super-secret family recipe, so
branna and I decided to try that. What transpired was in no way the fault of the recipe. 1. When I told Branna I had a mixer, she pictured one with paddles when what I actually had was one with beaters for whipping cream.
2. The mixing bowls were too small. Branna is probably still picking bits of dried batter off the walls.
3. Apparently "cream the butter and sugar" has a specific meaning that isn't "mix together until well-mixed."
4. The mixer was in no way capable of handling the doughy batter. In fact, just as we finally figured we were finished, it made an exploding noise as we turned it off.
5. The bottom burned.
6. The mixer proved to have died when the exploding noise happened, as we learned when we poured whipping cream into a bowl and attempted to turn it on. I'd just bought it, too. But failed to save the receipt.
7. Due to mixer failure, the dough was not sufficiently stirred, so the cake was full of chewy and inappropriately crunchy bits. It tasted really good, though, so in that sense the recipe stood up impressively under adverse conditions.
8. Tonight: snickerdoodles!