Baking a Cake - Made a Mistake

I've never made cake from a box, or used oil in a cake

Are you still going to bake it? Don't think I would eat it.

Never had that happen - and not being a baker, I have no idea what's going to happen!

Never done that either, I'm guessing it didn't even cook properly - let alone make it to being edible. A fix would have been to add another box (or two) of mix and make more cakes.

Hubby says you would be better off to toss the batch and start over. He once made banana bread and didn't put in enough flour - it was moister but not the way it should have been.

He says if you bake it you will have a "grease sponge" cake!

I second the suggestion to add another box or two of mix, you will have more cake but at least nothing would go to a total waste.

You can have my share - I'll pass on that one

Haha, this was laugh out loud funny! I'm glad it is edible. I suppose if I had noticed I would add a bunch more flour, eggs, vanilla, to even it out a bit.

That reminds me of an episode of Chopped on the Food Channel. This guy was in the final 2 and was making a dessert. He made a little mistake that cost him the competition. Well, it was a BIG mistake...... He didn't taste his batter before he cooked his cake... if he had, he would have noticed that instead of sugar, he put in a cup of SALT!!!! I would have hated to be one of the judges for that taste!

LOL! I've done things like that!

One time I was making bread and I used a tablespoon of salt instead of a teaspoon. As soon as I put it in, I knew what I did. I didn't have the extra eggs needed to make more loaves, though, (needed two more eggs and I only had one left) so I couldn't increase the other ingredients. Threw it out and started over.

Years ago, I was making chicken and dumplings one night for dinner. My neighbor called while I was putting the dumplings together. I couldn't understand why the flour wasn't making the dumpling dough stiff. Kept adding more and more flour, all the time yakking away on the telephone. Finally, I just gave up and threw the mess into the kettle, thinking that it would thicken up on its own.

DS came out to the kitchen, grabbed a spoon, and tasted the stew. And gagged. I was using confectioners sugar instead of flour. I tell you that stew was the absolute sweetest stew around. We ate at McDonald's that night. And to this day, DS and DH love to remind me about the sweet chicken stew. Awful, awful stuff!

I've done stuff like that too.

Once I was making something that required heavy whipping cream and you needed to whip it until it became stiff (I think it was an icing of some sort) and i was holding my hand mixer into the cream for a half an hour when mom came into the kitchen and asked what was wrong. I explained that for some reason the whipping cream wasn't whipping. So she poked her nose into the garbage and started to laugh when she picked up the empty carton of whipping cream and showed that I had grabbed the wrong container and was whipping half and half for the last half hour. SHe walked away laughing but karma was working in my house that week because 3 days later she did the same exact thing!

I once added twice the amount of butter a cake recipe called for. DH liked it so much, I alter the recipe when I make it for him.