How to Make a Cake Without Ingredients
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Anyone who's into baking knows that sooner or later it happens: you're throwing a party, or going to a dinner, or you've simply set your mind towards giving yourself a treat. You find a recipe, you mentally go through the ingredients. You start the whole process only to realize you are missing that one vital ingredient that will make your whole deal collapse.
How could I have forgotten the
flour? Or the
eggs? Or the
butter?
You can't get to the shops (yes, it happens. Say it's Good Friday, or there's a blizzard, or you haven't got a car). So there you are, the kitchen suddenly looks terribly desolate, like a circus after a show – except there hasn't even been a show. Are you just going to give up? Weathered bakers and die hard cake-makers know better than that.
Sure, you could fall back on truffles, or mousse, or some other fancy French no-bake dessert. But sometimes you simply want some good old
cake. The solutions provided below show how you can have exactly that.
Note: the following recipes have all been sourced from reliable recipe websites, and selected among the ones with the highest ratings.
No Flour
So the main thing that gives a cake substance is flour, right? Not necessarily. There are many reasons why people choose to go without flour in a cake, only one of them being the above-mentioned empty space in the pantry.
The most popular example is probably the
orange cake Flourless Orange Cake , but for those who don't have a passion for citrus flavours, the
Flourless Chocolate Cake is an equally worthy candidate for your post-meal sugar hit. Also try a variation of the latter with an
chocolate hazelnut cake addition of hazelnut .
No Butter
You can find most butterless cake recipes when hunting down healthy baking options. Here's a great recipe for the classic
Sponge Cake minus butter or oil. If you're in a more fruity mood, you might want to try the
Mango Fruit Cake , or give the
Healthy Apple Cake a go. You'll notice that this last recipe calls for macadamia oil - not your typical pantry item - but later mentions that plain vegetable oil will do the trick.
No Eggs
One sure-fire way to find eggless recipes is to search within the vegan community. Try out the
Fat-free Vegan Apple Banana Muffins , plain
Vegan Cake , or
Vegan Chocolate Cake .
No Milk, Butter or Eggs
Sounds like a joke, right? And yet, someone's grandma was gracious enough to share her knowledge with her grandchild, who proceeded to share it with the rest of us. Prepare to be amazed by
Grandma's Eggless, Butterless, Milkless Cake , which gets a whopping 4.5/5 stars over nearly 200 reviews.
No Oven
So, it's really not your day. As a final challenge to your patience and goodwill, your oven has decided to break down.
Not all hope is lost: you can still have a cake, thanks to the following ingenious recipes:
Eggless Steamed Chocolate Cake - Notice this one is eggless as well
Debby's steamed banana Cake
Ma Lai Go (Steamed Chinese Sponge Cake) - Ovenless, dairy-free wisdom from the Orient
5-minute Chocolate Cake - For sweet-toothed mamas who just ain't got the time
Also, check out Fauzia's visual walk-through of a general method for '
stovetop baking '.
As a final note, if you are an outdoors person, looking for solutions outside mainstream culture or simply developing a green conscience, you might want to explore the unusual world of
solar cookers . Not a last-minute remedy perhaps, but worth thinking about.
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89979 - 2023-06-11 08:15:00