Recipe flop

Hi all,

I was wondering if you could tell me what I may have done wrong.

I made a marble cake from the edmonds cookbook. I followed the recipe to the T and didnt add anything extra, my ingrediants are fresh and so were the eggs.

My only thing is that I gently beat the eggs with my standing mixer instead ofby hand.

The cake is now 1 1/2 inches high and really solid, dense.
My oven is cooking at the right temp.

Can you suggest anything that I may have done wrong?

I find the edmonds recipe can be a hit and miss most times so it may not be you. Also it is a butter cake so you can not over bake it or it will be dry. Did you fold in the flour at the end and if there were raising agents, did you add them in?

I sifted the flour and baking powder together and I then added it gradually to the mix by folding it in. I only folded it till just mixed so it wasnt over mixed...

Maybe your BP is past it's useby date?

some of the recipes are notso accurate. When they changed to metric some of their recipes do not work out so well.

This is a nice one
MARBLE CAKE
250g butter, softened
1¼ cups caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
3 eggs
2¼ cups self-raising flour, sifted
¾ cup milk
2 tbsp cocoa powder
3 drops red food colouring

VANILLA BUTTER ICING:
50g butter, softened
1 cup icing sugar, sifted
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 tbsp boiling water

1. Heat oven to 180c. Grease a 22cm springform cake
tin and line the base with nonstick baking paper. Place butter and
sugar in a bowl and beat until pale and creamy.

2. Beat in vanilla essence and eggs, one at a time. Stir in sifted flour in two batches, alternating with the milk. Divide the mixture between three separate bowls. Beat cocoa powder into one portion, stir red food colouring into one portion and leave one portion plain.

3. Drop large spoonfuls of the different mixtures into the prepared cake tin, alternating the colours. Drag and swirl a blunt knife through the mixtures to create a marble pattern.

4. Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool in tin, then remove and spread with vanilla butter icing.

5. To make vanilla butter icing, beat all ingredients together in a bowl until pale and creamy.

raising agent, beating it too hard and not letting it be folded gently, dont worry we all have times like that. use by date on the raising agents

Thank you all,

I have a feeling its the BP, way past its use by date. I am really fussy about folding in ingrediants so that wasnt over done.

Ok, im off to chuck out the BP.