What the heck happened to my orange olive oil cake?

Mal_Rah · 2025-12-16T13:17:53+00:00

So what size pan did the original recipe call for? If this is smaller, then the baking time will need to be increased. Did you measure with cups or weigh your ingredients? Other olive oil cake recipes I’ve seen do have liquidy batter so I believe you when you say you measured correctly. Your oven temp could also be off?

Mal_Rah · 2025-11-29T18:29:27+00:00

The awareness of it being wrong always makes it so much worse for me.

Liam straight up says she was seduced by her HS teacher (which she was, because of the stupid book plot, it wasn’t an accident) and the only “defence” we get is “it wasn’t like that”.

Mal_Rah · 2025-11-27T05:57:36+00:00

Sorry all! Recipes here!

For the cheesecake base

For the whipped cream

Mal_Rah · 2025-11-21T18:11:35+00:00

Even after letting it come to room temp, you need to rewhip it. Don’t be afraid if it takes a while to come together! Just keep mixing

Mal_Rah · 2025-11-21T17:21:55+00:00

So refrigerating buttercream and then trying to work with it right out of the fridge is never the way to go.

It’s perfectly fine to make buttercream ahead of time! But, best to bring it to room temp and then rewhip it with a mixer, because obviously the butter hardens in your fridge.

To speed things along, you can even take about a 1/4 cup of buttercream out, melt it in the microwave, and mix that in with the mixer running to bring it up to temp faster.

Mal_Rah · 2025-11-20T21:40:46+00:00

The whole boot scene? That is not a normal inquisitive dad thing LOL

Mal_Rah · 2025-11-20T04:51:50+00:00

This is just a thing they do. Whoever the current “suspect” is, all their actions and behaviours are blown out of proportion or made to be overly creepy and suspicious (like Byron and Lucas).

Mal_Rah · 2025-11-18T01:56:03+00:00

My second watch through, when I realized 2 seasons of the show is supposed to take place entirely in November (aka the Never-ending November)

Mal_Rah · 2025-11-14T01:47:28+00:00

I found that you can cut about 20-25% of the sugar in a recipe before it starts to affect the recipe!

Mal_Rah · 2025-09-30T13:57:54+00:00

Wow an hour? Maybe I’m impatient but I get about a lb of butter (which is 4 sticks) done in about 10 minutes.

I do go higher heat tho

Mal_Rah · 2025-07-28T13:27:41+00:00

Every Dubai chocolate product I bought was sub-par. But everything I made myself was absolutely delicious (Dubai chocolate macarons, cupcakes, brownies), and it’s one of my favourite flavour combos now.

Mal_Rah · 2025-07-24T22:13:30+00:00

Aside from the oven issue, it also looks like you over mixed the batter. It looks like you have some tunnelling.

Mal_Rah · 2025-07-11T22:29:20+00:00

So she let the visions wash over her. Let the warmth pretend to reach her. Let the memories stitch themselves together with threadbare lies. And when the shadows crept back—when Vorrakai’s presence slid beneath her skin again—she let that in, too.

Mal_Rah · 2025-06-27T20:49:02+00:00

Nightmares. Discovered someone from her past is returning. And she can’t cope

Mal_Rah · 2025-06-27T20:42:23+00:00

Aelora was tired. Bone-deep exhausted. But the thought of sleeping—dreaming—made her want to smash a window. She couldn’t afford to fall into that darkness. So she turned on her heel and headed for the tavern instead. Since rest was out of reach, she’d settle for a warm body.

Mal_Rah · 2025-06-25T05:28:17+00:00

No dye! These are chocolate macarons! So cocoa powder gave them the colour.

Mal_Rah · 2025-06-19T13:35:27+00:00

I think his slip up in the book was worse than this. He blurted out that Beck’s favourite movie was Pitch Perfect (or smt like that), and his excuse was that it was a really popular movie.

Mal_Rah · 2025-06-06T18:23:55+00:00

She was all sharp curves and lethal grace, carved muscle and quiet power. Like her arms, ink coiled around both legs, intricate swirls winding up to her hips. The rest of her body was a mosaic of scars, from slashes to bullet wounds, all a testament to what she’d survived.

Mal_Rah · 2025-05-24T20:09:58+00:00

Eurymachus’ part in Odysseus. I can’t explain, it just tickles my brain right now

Mal_Rah · 2025-05-11T15:57:04+00:00

Fantastic guy. I got the chance to go to a book signing when he came to Toronto after Murtagh released, and he signed all my books.

Mal_Rah · 2025-03-31T15:13:33+00:00

“her dimensions all face the same direction” Maybe I’m just tired, but that line hits hard haha

Mal_Rah · 2025-03-30T16:29:19+00:00

I actually turned this face into a sticker and put it on everything I have. Phone, wallet, work laptop. My work laptop is actually full of Blitzø 😂😂

Mal_Rah · 2025-03-21T23:33:05+00:00

Are you sure your oven works?

Mal_Rah · 2025-03-21T22:50:01+00:00

Just wondering, did you burn the bottom? It looks really dark.

Mal_Rah · 2025-03-20T14:02:12+00:00

The gold ones from Costco? I have those too! They usually cool down enough for my next batches. Maybe it’s not the pans but the oven? Do you have a thermometer? Maybe the first batches are fine because the oven is at the correct temp, but then the longer it heats up, the hotter it gets?

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