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A Burnt Offering

The success of the sausages has been offset by the crash and burn of a cake. My friend Rebecca is a celiac so I figured I could easily amend my pear/feijoa cake recipe to be gluten free. The glaringly misguided word in the previous sentence is “easily”. Simple methinks, swap the flour out for almond meal, then there was a moment around the baking powder, is it gluten free? Yes it was but I had to do some leg work on that as I had given half the packet including the packaging to Bev, my friends mum who I have been buying groceries for. Then there was an absolute moment of horror around the cake tin, you see these celiac’s don’t just feel unwell when you gluten them, they get downright sick….for months. No bloody baking paper, light bulb moment…. the bus, sure enough there was a roll of this kinda skinny baking paper type stuff also with no packaging, so 17 layers later I have the cake protected from any residual gluten in the tin. I whip up my recipe, only one egg, two might have been better without flour, how about a bit of golden syrup, I heard somewhere you can substitute that for egg. I shoved it in the oven for the allotted time with the timer on and went to work. I was a bit busy so ignored the timer for a bit…..what could go wrong the oven was off. This is what could go wrong!




Proper burn, twin towers type collapse and the kinda skinny baking paper type stuff stuck to the cake like shit to a blanket. I spent some time picking that shit off and the un-burnt bits of cake tasted good, but you could hardly present it in your cake tin to someone! I won’t bore you with the recipe………………………

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