Ok, this definitely qualifies as a baking disaster.
I was making a peach streusel cake for the wife. Cake on the bottom, a layer of peaches, and a streusel topping.
I read through the recipe and the accompanying photos, and made particular note that the cake batter would be thick and stiff and would need to be spread into the pan with a knife or spatula.
Cream the butter and sugar...add vanilla and an egg...mix in the dry ingredients and the milk...
Now, my eyes are bad. Bad as in glasses get me only so far. Bad as in it's barely legal for me to drive.
So I'm adding the milk, and I'm thinking, "This sure seems like a lot of milk...," and I keep pouring, adding some dry stuff, then some milk..."Oh well, I guess it'll thicken up...any time now...any time..."
I finished adding everything, and instead of being thick like cake frosting, it was thin, like crepe batter! What the...?!
I went back to the recipe, took my glasses off and held the phone right up to my face, zoomed way in, and what I had originally read as "1-1/2 cup" was actually "1/2 cup." With my glasses and the phone on the countertop, the 1 was kind kind of blurred and looked double.
Well crap.
Thickened it with a little more flour, a bit more of the spices, then threw it together and hoped for the best.
First, it bubbled over onto my pizza stone. Second, it was sturdy enough to support the peaches or the streusel, so all of that folded right into the middle, like a lump. Third, it called for a 40 minute bake time, I had to eventually cover it and bake it for a whopping 75 minutes.
It came out very browned, like a cookie, around the edge, but the cake is very wet, though baked through, kind of sticky like a poke cake can get.
It seems to taste ok, but it's wet. It's really wet. Did I mention it's so freaking wet?
