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Emergency cake cook

jabam
jabam Posts: 1,829
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Wife was gonna make my son a bday cake and the oven not working. So doing an emergency cake cook on the egg. Have it at 350 with plate setter legs down gonna check it in 30 minutes. Do you think the cake will get a smoke flavor? And is that a good thing?
Central Valley CA     One large egg One chocolate lab "Halle" two chiuahuas "Skittles and PeeWee"
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  • spgrimes
    spgrimes Posts: 15
    That's going to be interesting. Good luck!
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  • DMW
    DMW Posts: 13,836
    Is the cake pan sitting directly on the plate setter? If so, go get something between the ate setter and cake pan. Anything, foil balls, etc. Or flip plate setter and put grid on and set pan on that. Otherwise you risk burning the bottom of The cake.
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  • Scottborasjr
    Scottborasjr Posts: 3,494
    Depends if you started with clean burning charcoal. Never done a cake before, but the pies and cookies I have done weren't put on the grill for a good two hours after the fire started burning.
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  • jabam
    jabam Posts: 1,829
    DMW said:
    Is the cake pan sitting directly on the plate setter? If so, go get something between the ate setter and cake pan. Anything, foil balls, etc. Or flip plate setter and put grid on and set pan on that. Otherwise you risk burning the bottom of The cake.
    Thanks gonna do that now
    Central Valley CA     One large egg One chocolate lab "Halle" two chiuahuas "Skittles and PeeWee"
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,249
    edited March 2015
    I bake cakes all the time. Too late to advise you now, but your selection of lump is critical. Using OO or Rockwood is my recommendation plus letting it be clean burning before the cake goes on. The other day I posted some pictures of a carrot cake and a chocolate cake.
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  • DaveRichardson
    DaveRichardson Posts: 2,324
    @RRP got to it first. Clean egg with neutral lump. You'll never know it came from the egg unless you don't let VOC's burn off.....

    LBGE since 2014

    Griffin, GA 

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  • jabam
    jabam Posts: 1,829
    RRP said:
    I bake cakes all the time. Too late to advise you now, but your selection of lump is critical. Using OO or Rockwood is my recommendation plus letting it be clean burning before the cake goes on. The other day I posted some pictures of a carrot cake and a chocolate cake.
    Too late cakes are done. We will see how it turns out.  Thanks for input. I will let you know results!
    Central Valley CA     One large egg One chocolate lab "Halle" two chiuahuas "Skittles and PeeWee"
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