Today is "National Easy Bake Oven Day." I never had an Easy Bake Oven, neither did my daughter who is, in my opinion, very fortunate to be married to a man who does most of the cooking. Although she does have one cake recipe that is very good, and pretty. It looks like a checkerboard when it is cut.
I did have one memorable encounter with a cake when I was young. When I was ten years old, I joined 4H. At that time, unless you were a farm girl,(I wasn't, unless you count chickens) girls 4H courses were limited to variations on cooking, baking and sewing. My first sewing project was an apron which came in handy when I started baking. One of the first things I baked was a layer cake. My mother was standing by in the kitchen but I had to follow the recipe and do everything myself. It all went well. The batter was mixed, the oven preheated, the pans greased and floured. I poured the batter in the pans, put the pans in the oven and set the timer. When the timer buzzed, I reread the next direction "Tap the cake lightly in the center. If it springs back it's done." I was so nervous about reaching into the hot oven to tap the cake, that I tapped too hard and drove my finger into the cake 'til it hit the bottom of the pan. The cake was done, and tasted good and no one but Mom ever knew about my overzealous tapping. You can cover a lot of errors with thick frosting, and my brothers were at an age to eat anything. It will come as no surprise that I have ever since used the toothpick test.
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