Schrodinger's Uncertainty Cake

Today my wonderful woman cooked ANOTHER cake. We have decided to bake a series of cakes inspired by the great philosophers and thinkers of our time (and maybe some not so great ones if we run out of ideas...). In this thrilling instalment,

!!!Schrodinger's Uncertainty Cake!!!

You put cake mix into the black box (or whatever colour your oven is). But what comes out. Is it a cake? No: observe its crusty crunchy muffin exterior. Is it a muffin? No: observe its size and gooey fluffy texture. Therefore it is neither muffin nor cake but some different state, incomprehensible to the human mind.

Ahem.

The recipe: (inspired by the Blueberry buckle cake )
2 cups and 1-2 Tbsp of flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 large egg
1/2 cup milk
1 pint frozen summer fruits (raspberries, red currants and the like)

Topping ingredients:
1/4 cup butter,
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup flour
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 Preheat the oven to 190 degrees celsius. Grease an 8-inch pan.

2 Mix the 2 cups of flour, the baking powder and the salt. Set aside. Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in the egg. Add the flour mixtrue with the milk. Toss the beries with the remaining 1 to 2 tablespoons of flour (to separate and scatter evenly throughout the batter) and fold in. Pour batter into the prepared pan. Set aside.

3 Combine ingredients for topping with a fork to make crumbly mixture. Sprinkle this over the batter.

4 Bake for one hour, then test for doneness by gently inserting a fork.


That was Snehal. I'm not much one for recipes myself; just throw in the ingredients and see if it works. But that's probably why my cakes are wierd and Snehal's are wonderful. Anyway the cake is a few hours old and I have to go finish the last piece.... enjoy

Kit and Kuki