Eggless and tasteless!

We were running thin on kitchen supplies and being too lazy to venture out into the rain to shop, I thought I'd rustle up a treat with whatever I had to hand. In other words, I had the brainwave of attempting to cook my first eggless, banana cake.

Feeling confident from my last couple of attempts at baking, I set about carefully preparing my cake mix using flour, baking powder, milk, sugar, butter and pureed bananas. The only ingredient I didn't have (apart from any eggs) was bicarbonate of soda and at Fuzz's suggestion, I used a bottle of beer as a substitute (his clever explanation of beer's yeast content managed to sway me).

With the cake happily baking in the oven, I moved into the living room next door to continue my lazy Sunday and eagerly awaited the homely aroma of baking that one gets when making a cake. Fifteen minutes later however, I began to get whiffs of a smell that I normally wouldn't associate with cake baking. On inspecting the cake, it certainly looked ok but of course, I was still puzzled by the none too familiar smell. When we finally sampled the cake, it tasted like..erm...how do I describe this...a type of bread that left a rather unplesant alcoholic aftertaste. I blame Fuzz...the failure of the task is clearly down to his lunatic idea of adding a whole bottle of beer to the cake mix (and perhaps with me a little for going along with his lunacy).

(And given the enormous "success" of this cooking experience, no pictures were taken for this post either, I'm afraid!)