Microwave Cake
When you think of microwave cooking, the idea of cooking a meat dish, a vegetable side dish or making popcorn are perfect applications for your microwave oven. But we don't really think of doing our baking in the microwave. But you can adapt your approach to baking and even make delicious cakes in your microwave so you never have to turn on your stove at all.
The real secret to making great cakes in the microwave lies in the cookware that you use. For best results, purchase heat and serve bake ware or containers that are specifically designed for microwave baking. Tupperware and many other cooking supply companies make baking bowls and containers that are designed to create delicious cakes just using your microwave oven. It is a little more clutter to keep special baking gear around just to make cakes in the microwave. But there are certain situations where using your microwave even to make a delicious cake is a great alternative.
One example is when you need a cake in a hurry. It only takes eight to 10 minutes after you mix up the batter to bake a cake in the microwave. An example might be that you are having family or friends over for dinner or perhaps to celebrate a holiday meal. To prepare a meal of this size can be a challenge for even the most expert of cooks because it is so difficult to get everything to come out of the oven at the right time and be hot when the guests sit down.
In this kind of situation, it is a very common problem to suddenly realize a half hour before the guests arrive that you did not prepare a desert. As "zero hour" for your guests to arrive gets close, you may have your oven fully committed finishing the main meal dishes or keeping things warm. This is a perfect situation where you can turn to your microwave oven to save the day. Just mix up a cake mix the regular way but pull out the microwave cookware to use an alternate system to the full oven to bake your cake. In fifteen minutes, you have a cake cooling in them microwave which you can frost between dinner and desert.
It isn't hard to find instructions for how to make cakes in the microwave. Many cake mixes have microwave instructions on the box right next to instructions how to make the cake the old-fashioned way. Most of the large recipe internet sites even have recipes for you to make a cake from scratch and bake it in the microwave. You don’t have to be limited by the kind of cake you want to make because the diversity of recipes is enormous. But adding the microwave to your arsenal of tools you can at your disposal for getting a cake ready for a party, a bake sale or when guests arrive suddenly can be a lifesaver for any homemaker. And once you make cakes in your microwave, there is a chance you will never go back to heating up your kitchen making cakes any other way.