YESSSSSS! It's official - I am the self-appointed Genius of the Cobb!
Tried it out with my own recipe and was amazed to find it worked!
4 oz marg
4 oz self raising flour
4 oz caster sugar
2 eggs
pinch salt
1 tsp vanilla flavouring
Mix ingredients together and pour into greased, lined 8 inch tin.
I turned the non-stick part upside down so that I didn't scratch the cooking side when putting the baking tin on it.
The cake took 25 minutes over 4 heat beads and smells gorgeous. You can spy on it a bit through the holes in the lid and also poke a skewer thro same holes to check it's done.
Biscuits next perhaps?
BTW I am never likely to cook cakes while camping. Who can be bothered with all that weighing and stuff while on holiday?
lol you and Becca 305 should get to gether she is a Cobb nut and proud of it i think she has tried everything in hers and made a lot of converts along the way , keep up the cooking and most of all enjoy it , pity you cannot put a smell patch on the forum I love the smell of baking , all the best
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Quote: Originally posted by Big Blunderer on 14/07/2005
The cake sounds lovely yummm,i have done pizzas recently
How do you do a pizza on the Cobb - not tried that yet.
BTW I drop all my briquettes into a bucket of water when I've finished with them and let them dry out when cool so that I can use them again. Wouldn't use them if I was roasting meat but they'd do for straight BBQ or the baking.
buy a pizza base and make your own toppings or cheat and buy a supermarket one.
We use a round steel grill rack that we didnt use from our mircowave to lift the base off the grill plate,this way the pizza base is nice and crispy ant the top isnt burnt.They take approx the same time as in the oven
I was reading bits of Darina Allen's Ballymaloe Cookery course and liked the sound of the spotted dog (sort of soda bread with raisins) that she says they make when on boating outings. She weighs everything before they leave and put it in a bag - then just have to add the wet ingredients, mix and cook. I bet I could do that on the Cobb, I thought, and did. It was lovely. And very easy, having weighed all the dry ingredients and put them in a ziplock bag before leaving home. I found the timing more tricky as we'd already had a barbecue when I put it on and it seemed to take a while - but worth the wait!
Look out for me at the wickerman fest...I will be the tent with the cake and custard smells wafting along the campsite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice one!
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After your post the other day me and my son decided to take the cake tin with us and have a go when we go to st ives this weekend so packed it last night, I bought one of the cake mixes in a box which you just add water and an egg to I didn't think of weighing the ingrediants before we went but I think i'll do that to night thanks for the tip. Carn't wait only 12 hour to go before we set off.
Take a tin of pineapple rings too and you can put those in the base of your mix and have a pineapple upside down cake! Full of bright ideas me!
In fact, you could have that for pudding after the main course, always supposing the leftover fumes from a roast chicken won't affect the flavour. Methinks more testing is required on this matter...
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Topic: I baked a cake on my Cobb!!!!
