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February 23, 2011

Epic Food Fail

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I pride myself in thinking that I am a fairly good cook.  Oh sure I had some failures as a teenager when I was learning to cook.  I mean I know my family will still remember Strawberry Rock and Banana Hunk but those were minor occurrences . But I moved on and felt that I had mastered cooking fairly well. That is until yesterday.   Oh sure I have my not so great looking dishes but for the most part they turn out well and taste good.  Hence the reason Chris and I are both watching our weight now,  I guess.  It tastes too good!  So on week 3 (already!) of trying to adjust our diet and eat a little healthier, limiting sugar and fat, I have been trying out some new recipes.  Enter my worst food fail to date.

I bought a couple of new cookbooks to get some new recipes and decided to make a Sponge Cake for dessert since we have been passing up on desserts lately I thought it would be a nice treat.  Serve it up with some strawberries and low fat Cool Whip and it would be delightful —or so I thought.

I actually made it twice, thinking that I had somehow left something out.   That is the sad part.  Well, I followed the directions exactly both times and the results were pitiful.  A sponge cake turned into a brick cake.  I don’t know of any self respecting sponge out there who would claim that this was what it was!  Good grief.  It did not rise, it just sat there.  I had envisioned an angel food type cake with lift and air and what I got was a rock.  The directions say to invert the tube pan upside down on a plate after baking  and allow to cool.  Well when I followed those instructions to the T and turned around to the sink I heard a “clunk” as the “cake” fell out of the pan onto the plate.  Not quite what it was supposed to do.

Looks delightful, doesn't it?

And this is how TALL my sponge cake was!!

And that was a salad fork, folks!!!  Hmm.  Well, never one to just give up I decided to see how it tasted and give it a try without totally abandoning hope.

The finished product.

As you can image it tasted horrible.  We tried to eat it.  We really did.  But we ended up eating around the so called sponge cake.  It was horrible.  If anyone out there has a great diabetic sponge cake recipe PLEASE let me know!  I need it!!!  The one in the American Diabetes Association cookbook is horrible.

Oh and if any of you see any birds flying around Mason City area with difficulty on their lift off—perhaps they partook of some of my thrown out sponge cake.  It is probably sitting like a rock in their stomachs like it is in mine.  So much for weight loss—I think this caused me to GAIN weight!!!

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  1. Amy Prentice
    February 23, 2011 at 08:04 am

    Oh Beth Ann the joys of fatfree cooking!!! I have found myself buying an angel’s food cake at the store (of course I check the fat content because they may differ) and then sometimes add fat free pudding and fruit or the fruit and fat free cool whip…so much easier and prettier and tastier! I also learned to make a pretty good cake that is lowfat, low cal…from Weight Watchers….take a boxed cake mix and add your fav diet soda to it…..such as diet cherry coke to a chocolate mix…or sprite to a lemon cake…..then use fat free cool whip on top…..it’s a nice moist cake and even my son (who doesn’t drink soda) knew that it was in there!

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    1. Beth Ann
      February 23, 2011 at 08:32 am

      Oh those are great ideas!!! I should have known better since there was no picture accompanying the recipe….LOL.

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  2. egills
    February 23, 2011 at 10:07 am

    Oh no! And you made it twice? How dissapointing. Although fat free cakes? How can you make a good fat free cake?

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    1. Beth Ann
      February 23, 2011 at 10:17 am

      Well I guess the emphasis was on sugar free. It was horrible. Simply horrible! I should have just made an angel food cake!!! Next time!

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