Confusion Cake

28/10 CONFUSION CAKE

Following the deceptive pixie, this is a grippingly dark recipe - in need on an uplifting force. I haven't felt the true do or die spirit when cooking for a while. Comfort zones are best left to those who can afford beige. The only absolute here was the need to produce a desert for a sunday lunch provided with love. What came next is hard to explain.

I did have apples. I didn't make milk. Or sugar. Or useful flour.  So with that the best course of action is to bake a cake. Obviously. Now baking is a thing of precision and science and Art which has elevated itself to a primetime BBC broadcast. This is no such thing, basically try to find things that resembled cake ingredients  - coconut milk, plain flour, molasses. And hope that if you throw caution and faith to the wind then a sweet aroma will come back. Somehow this miracle worked. Although it was dark, treacly and delicious - It does need cream to help it convert to delicious.

Ingredients (all approximate) - 

1 Apple
200ml Coconut milk
2 Eggs
50g soft butter
1.5 cups Plain flour
1 tsp baking soda
150g Molasses (dark sugar, anything really)


What I did - Oven preheat into 180

Line a small baking dish with some butter smears and flour. Then coat the base in sugar/molasses. Slice the apple thinly and fan around the dish - ideally elegantly, but its going to be eaten so no stresses required. In another please don't stress.

Once lined and ready, prepare the batter by using the all in one method. Simply because there was no way of really telling if it was going to work so throwing caution to the wind seems the best idea. Beat it until it completely comes together (the qtys listed worked, however in finding this balance there was a bit of a guessing game - it should be a smooth light batter).

Pour over the apple lined tin and bake for 30 minutes in a 180degree oven. Check at this stage if it needs more, if the skewer is sticky give it another 5-10 minutes.

When it's ready take the dish out of the oven and let to cool for 15 minutes or so - until you feel comfortable enough to turn it out. Flip it quickly onto a plate. The foil will come out easy, then gently peel it off - don't rip it unless you want the mess that is photographed here.

Don't stand on ceremony, just cut it and eat it. Seeing a mess may make you feel less so.

JG