Nathan cooking a cake!

Nathan came back from the library the other day and we set him a challenge. We took him to the kitchen and set him the challenge of cooking a basic sponge cake. We knew this would be interesting, owing to his previously demonstrated cooking skills. We had set out all the required ingredients on the table, including a few extra like pepper and oregano.

After uming and aring for a bit and admitting he really didn’t know what he was doing he decided to get on with it. Attempt one, her put a load of plain flour in a bowl and then stirred in lots of water. He then decided this looked wrong so tipped it away and started again.
Attempt two started in much the same way with plain flour, but without water. He then preceded to add two eggs, quite a bit of water and some milk. He then decided to add some self raising flour and some sugar. It was not quite that simple, but eventually he decided it was finished.

He then set about lining the pan, which we use as a cake tin. The lining was interesting, with lots of separate bits of tin foil, however the greasing was even better with large chunks of butter left all over!

Poring in the mixture he decided it would need 2 hours on 250 degrees Celsius. After he put cake in the oven however we quickly turned the temperature down, so at least it stood a chance. It was then done and brought out of the oven. Unsurprisingly due to the lack of self raising flour it had not really risen at all.

We then got April, as it was her birthday, saying that Nathan has cooked a cake for her birthday. She cut the cake, after he had scraped it out of the pan. Then we all politely ate some, it tasted very interesting. It was a kind of mix between a pancake and sweet Yorkshire pudding, it was stodgy.

So this was Nathan’s cake cooking challenge. Please note Nathan uses explicit language



This is part 2!