Greetings From Your Friendly Baker Opal26 ! I've Got A Cake Story Again!

Happy Birthday, Opal!!!!!!! Hope your pumpkin bread cake turns out really yummy. Just think that you're going with the fall season theme for the cake. I have had several boo-boos in the kitchen especially when baking but that's how you learn. I once tried to make a "Mango Tres Leches" topped with mango buttercream cake to bring to Boyfriend's mom's house for a dinner dessert. I had to make the cake from scratch, with flour and all the good stuff. It turned out okay but it was very different from what I imagined. So I learned from that experience and for mother's day, I tried to do it again. This time, I bought a yellow cake mix and started from there and it turned out finger-licking good.

blessed birthday wishes to you yes i have had this happen to me before ive had my heart set one thing but i find out i do not have the ingredients it is sad at first but i just make something else!!!!

For me it would be pie for my birthday. Love pie better than cake. I have started out many times thinking I would bake a specific thing and wound up baking something else. It all depends on my mood and the staples I have on hand in the pantry.

Can't say that it has ever happened to me only because when I bake a cake it is not from scratch it is from a box mix. The pumpkin bread cake does sound good and I am sure it will turn out delicious. Happy Birthday and I hope your day is a great one.

Happy birthday and lucky family that you have when you make your own birthday cake for them to eat. Well, I would take the pumpkin cake over the yellow one any day of the week, and buttercreme frosting would be just fine, or cream cheese frosting or even no frosting at all! May I have French vanilla ice cream with my slice, please?

hi opal happy birthday and manny more. never had that happen with a cake but once I was so intent on having a tuna noodle casserole .I specially shopped for the ingredients, got home, had the noodles, and the mushroom soup, the potato chips, and the peas, but oh where oh where was the tuna? Oh myG.so now I could either catch another bus late in the afternoon or wait til tomorrow so I waited, my supper sure wasnt the tuna casserole I had my mouth all set for. lol

I guess I have never attempted to make something from scratch then use other ingredients but I can't wait to find out how your's turned out! Happy Birthday too!

Hey Opal26. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Opal26, happy birthday to you! I'm so glad you are having a pumpkin bread cake for your birthday. Sounds delicious! Yes, do let us know how it tasted. I have had to stop mixing up a cake to run out to the store and get an ingredient I didn't have. I hate that. If my husband's home, he'll usually make the run for me. Anyhoo, hope you are having the best birthday ever. Take Care and have fun.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OPAL!!!!! ::helps Opal blow out all those candles:: Yes - I was going to make the Super Easy Surprise Cake for the first time and thought I had bought a spice cake mix to go with the apple pie filling, but I had yellow cake instead. I knew it wouldn't ruin it, but I had my heart set on spice, so I added cinnamon to the yellow cake mix. It wasn't as spicy as the mix would have been, but it wasn't plain either. It turned out pretty good.

Hey Opalkitty..did you ever see the discussion me and Irish started about you for today?? We had your cake and 21 candles all set for you and buttercream icing galore... Love you and Hope it was a Happy One.. Huggs and kitty kisses

Mmmm! Happy birthday! I actually have bananas I need to make banana bread out of. Pumpking bread would be yummy too. Alas I have not made many things from scratch lately, although I do have a yummy soup simmering on the stove. I have not HAD a particular ingredient before so I've had to replace with something else before.

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday to you!!!!! I hope you liked my song! Ha!ha!ha!I can't sing that to you live but just imagine you've heard me singing while reading this post. Happy Birthday my friend...from the bottom of my heart.... I wish you all the best! And you are baking your own cake! How nice! I admire people who can bake so well. I've been baking cakes but can't do it perfectly. The only cake I could do perfectly is banana cake. (Poor me! hu!hu!hu!) I wish we're neighbors so I could learn from you. It's okay if you can't make the yellow cake with buttercreme frosting,(Hmmmm, my mouth is watering!) That pumpkin bread cake sounds interesting though. I've not tasted that kind of cake. But pumpkin I love... it's very nutritious so I wish I could taste that pumpkin cake too. Do eat a slice for me. Again...Happy Birthday my dear friend!

Happy Birthday Opal!!!! Do You have someone to share it with? I hate it when I have to make my own cake. I know some people don't mind but if it's my Birthday, I want someone else to make it. Maybe that's why I don't get a cake. I might have to rethink that. And yes, it seems lately that I can't seem to have all the ingredients whenever I make anything but especially if I'm baking. A few days ago I made choc. chip and walnut cookies and I didn't have eggs. I sent my hubby to the store. He says I always start something without checking to see if I have everything. He's right. I didn't use to be like that. Well Sweetie, enjoy your pumpkin bread cake. I would make you a yellow cake if I lived near you.xoxoxo leenie

Happy birthday Opal! have you done anything special, apart from cake baking?! I hope it's been a fab day for you! I very rarely bake so when i do it's a special trip to the shops to get the ingredients! hehe am not exactly a domestic goddess that's for sure!! Hope it turns out well!! xxxx

I'm sure it's happened to me, and I've probably run out to the store real quick to get it, or just not made what I wanted to make. A month or so ago, my son went to make cupcakes and after he'd mixed in a few ingredients he realized we were out of eggs. I think the batter is still in the fridge... HEY!!! Happy Birthday!!!

I wish it would happen to me LOL I love cake...I mean LOVE cake and I can only have a small slice once in a great while b/c I'm diabetic. I wish I knew of a way to make one and freeze it or something and still have it taste fresh when I get ready to have some. Happy Birthday and I hope your cake turns out. [b]~~IN SEARCH OF PEACE WITHIN~~ **AGAINST THE STORMS, I WILL STAND STRONG** [/b]

That sounds scrummy I love pumpkin however it is cooked hopefully your [umpkin bread cake will be goo too...that has never happened to me guess if I couldn't make the cake I wanted to then I didn't cook anything...littleowl

Its your birthday ? Happy birthday to you then my friend, I am sorry I am a great cake fan but I don't bake them, I just hang around the cake house if I wanted to eat a piece of cake and choose what I wanted, lol. although, I cook food for my self, I have the same, well almost the same story you have, I was thinking of eating something then I ended cooking different thing like a right cake for wrong ingredients.

Hi Opal26, That could be annoying, so what ever your baking I bet it will tast delicious, I haven't baked anything for a long time, I'm just not good at these things. Love & Hugs. Tamara

Happy Birthday, Opal! I hope you had a wonderful day. I cannot tell you how many times I started to make something, and then realized I didn't have everything I needed to make it. I look through the cabinet and fridge to see what I can replace the missing ingredient with. It usually doesn't turn out quite the same as what I had intended, but it usually turns out to be pretty darn good. Sad thing is, then next time I decide to make THAT thing, I don't even remember how I made it.*LOL*