Recipe cake doughnuts

Just saw a new dermatologist and she told me to break-up with cake. My allergy test shows wheat allergy but I mostly ignore it because unlike my other food allergies eating wheat based food does not cause hives.
I was really hoping my eczema was fungal, because I had similar reactions before to fungal infection. I really insisted. However, my fungal test is negative.
I also have other signs of wheat allergy like headaches so now I kinda accept that this might be my trigger. It sucks, I can give up all wheat products but I love cakes with a passion. So this makes me so sad. I want to cry.
I hope people out here with similar trigger can help me with finding the best non-wheat flour cake recipes (like meringue or macaron based cakes)
Why am I so unfortunate to have this now when all my life (prior to turning 40) cake was fine!
I guess I will cry and complain and be sad for awhile like a real break up, then eventually get over it.

Just saw a new dermatologist and she told me to break-up with cake. My allergy test shows wheat allergy but I mostly ignore it because unlike my other food allergies eating wheat based food does not cause hives.
I was really hoping my eczema was fungal, because I had similar reactions before to fungal infection. I really insisted. However, my fungal test is negative.
I also have other signs of wheat allergy like headaches so now I kinda accept that this might be my trigger. It sucks, I can give up all wheat products but I love cakes with a passion. So this makes me so sad. I want to cry.
I hope people out here with similar trigger can help me with finding the best non-wheat flour cake recipes (like meringue or macaron based cakes)
Why am I so unfortunate to have this now when all my life (prior to turning 40) cake was fine!
I guess I will cry and complain and be sad for awhile like a real break up, then eventually get over it.

I love challenging recipes, but sometimes the basic/“easy” ones are deceptive. For the life of me, I CANNOT make fudgy brownies from scratch. I either underbake or overbake. I’ve tried using a thermometer, changing the pan type, and tested over 10 recipes. Dense chocolate cake or unexpected lava cake every time.
Any advice on achieving the perfect brownie with a fudgy interior and crispy/chewy exterior?

I made my mom a basque cheesecake per her request. It did not disappoint! Tips: *Do a water bath so it cooks all the way through. People in the comments section of Bon Appetite were complaining that it was soupy and this solves the problem. *Use cake flour instead of all purpose flour so it's not lumpy. *Watch it very carefully in the last 15 minutes so you don't burn it like I did. It was still BUSSIN' despite this.
Not pictured: A homade dark cherry reduction.
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/basque-burnt-cheesecake

Hello, good folks of Baking! I'm a definite amateur but I enjoy whipping up snacks for people from time to time. Throughout my life, one of the bakes that I've enjoyed the absolute most was red velvet. I mean, it helps that throughout my childhood my favourite colour was red, but it also tastes lovely, it's light and fluffy, it's got that little tang that sets it apart from just a dyed chocolate cake. However, throughout my life I have also been plagued by this wonderful cake's unfortunate association with that most wicked and vile of substances: the dreaded cream cheese.
Okay, bits aside, cream cheese has unfortunately never agreed with my taste buds, making it quite the rare red velvet cake where I can actually stand to eat the frosting along with the cake. I mean, I've always preferred a higher ratio of cake to frosting, but with red velvet it's just dreadful. I've looked at some recipes online with various alternative frostings, but there are a few different options and I sorta stalled out. I mean, it's not like I could ask the online recipe writers which type of alternate frosting is the best, they'd all just say their own, surely! So I thought I'd ask here. What sort of frosting alternate to cream cheese would best marry up with the red velvet cake, and why?

I made financier's using America's Test Kitchen's recipe and liked the end product, but I wanted to see if they could be dressed up more without toppings. I'm thinking of adding some Disaronno amaretto since I've read it tastes similar to almonds that it'd be a natural and more interesting complement than just almond extract. However, I don't really drink much alcohol to know how bold this addition would be and consequently how much to realistically add. If it was your humdrum vanilla extract, I'd guess half a teaspoon, but I'm seeing conversions of 4-8 units amaretto for every 1 unit of almond extract that I'm wondering if I should expect *tablespoons* that could also throw off the ratio of wet to dry ingredients without proper adjustments. Any input would be appreciated.
Base ATK recipe:

• 5 Tbsp unsalted butter
• 3 oz or 85 g almond flour
• 4 oz or 113 g sugar
• 2 Tbsp AP flour
• 1/3 C egg whites

Conspiracy theories involving “elite” pedophile rings have recently been dominating social media in a disorienting frenzy. They have been around for some time but in this century rose back to popularity during the 2016 Election cycle. This crop, at least, took root with what became known as “Pizzagate.”
Promoters of that conspiracy theory in 2016 used social media platforms to make unfounded but viral allegations that Hillary Clinton and other prominent Democrats were running a pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizzeria even though that restaurant had no basement, or any ties to known politicians other than the typical flesh pressing (Phrasing I know) moments fit for a picture hung on the wall.
Since then, the dark theme of Pizzagate has found new life with permutations forming part of the #Qanon conspiracy theory, incorporated under the umbrella term “pedogate.” The gist of the #pedogate conspiracy theory is that global elites (politicians, celebrities, and wealthy businesspersons) are covertly involved in a far-reaching ring that uses young children for sexual purposes.
“What most of these conspiracy theories involve in one way or another is laying accusations of pedophilia or involvement in pedophile rings at the feet of people that they despise or hate, and during the 16’ election cycle, Democrats were a wide target for an opposing political movement that had hijacked the rival Republican party. Pizzagate originated with the “alt right” and “alt lite,” far right extremists who range from outright white supremacists to those who publicly shun racists but otherwise fall in step with their belief systems.
Pizzagate jumped from the fringes to the mainstream because as it denigrated Hillary Clinton, it sucked in supporters of then-candidate Donald Trump.
After the election all mention of pedogate seemed to be put on a simmer while other National outrages boiled over (#Covid #RussiaGate #BLM) and just like clockwork (heading into our next election cycle has been turned back up.
The pedogate conspiracy and all associated stories employ a centuries-old tactic: playing on deep-seated human anxieties by conjuring images of imperiled children, the purest and defenseless victim of any manner of injustice.
An example in the modern era of weaponized conspiracy was the satanic panic of the 1980s, in which a wave of hysteria over alleged child molestation at daycare centers swept the nation. But while that phenomenon was a moral panic attributable, at least in part, to social anxiety over white middle class women entering the work force en masse for the first time and entrusting their children to others, the current conspiracy theories about pedophile rings equate to similar propaganda. They carry a danger for stirring up violence.
If you want to elicit violent action the way to do it is through hate and fear. Once you target and label a population as pedophiles, you can do anything you like to that population with full excuse being given to the myth you’ve wrapped around it.
That’s not to say fears of child abuse or sex trafficking are unfounded. There are many as pedophilia has ancient roots and in many cases was encourage by many world cultures and religions a lot later into Civilization than we’d like to admit. The International Labor Organization reports that 25 percent of the world’s 40.3 million victims of human trafficking are children.
The most vulnerable, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, are migrants, runaways, the homeless, and youngsters who have been victims of violence. Despite their obsession over the topic, conspiracy followers aren’t worked up about those children who are in true harm’s way.
In the world of propaganda, it’s never about real children. Instead, it’s about what children represent. The children imperiled by conspiracy theories, in other words, are only metaphors.
Children carry a vast amount of weight in any society, but especially modern ones when they’re expected to survive past the age of five. It wasn’t as intense before the 18th century when child mortality rates were really high. They represent the future, and all that is beautiful and decent and honest in a society, because they are innocent.
For most people also, the meaning of their existence is rooted in their children. Children are eschatological, they represent death for us, and what is coming behind us after we are gone. They also represent the threat of loss, if they disappear, if they die, that is the death of society. That’s why they became so crucial and central to Cold War propaganda. The real terror of the nuclear holocaust would be the death of the children, because that’s the death of everyone.
A recent example of this is in a recent police investigation into conspiracy claims of PizzaGate style accusation of Portland’s Voodoo Doughnuts. Detectives attempted to contact the person accusing Voodoo Doughnuts on social media of running a pedophile ring. The accuser did not cooperate with investigators and it’s been documented in other coverage online that they had become agitated and accused the Police with complicity when tracked down in person, even though they were attempting to investigate.
The pendulum of conspiracy theories about systematic child abuse has swung back and forth for centuries. Examples such as blood libel, when Jewish communities were attacked over false allegations of murdering and consuming Christian children in the Middle Ages.
In Europe, During the Thirty Years War, entire villages were put to the sword because it was believed they were abusing children of the other religions.
One characteristic that helps Pizzagate-style conspiracy theories gain popularity is that they function like a puzzle game and give its audience a large level of involvement through social media.
A lot of conspiracy theories are oracular, where the information comes from one source an oracle. Then there are others where there are a few people who promote the notions, almost like gurus or a conspiracy priesthood.
With Pizzagate, it’s more of what one would call a participatory conspiracy theory. Participatory conspiracy theories lay out a scenario or situation and then they ask their audience, ‘what more can you find out about this, what more can you add?’ It turns the audience into willing participants, some knowing they are creating a destructive madlib and other (potential real victims) caking on mystical distraction to issues that have been unreported or scars that have not bee properly treated.
The thing about participatory conspiracy theories is it can really create a devoted following because it gives people something to do, it makes them feel they can solve the whole thing or uncover new aspects to it. Once you get that energy going it’s almost self-sustaining. Followers of the Qanon conspiracy theory, call themselves “bakers” because their protagonist “Q” pops up on Internet message boards and leaves “crumbs” (i.e., clues), and they are tasked with picking up the crumbs in order to solve the puzzle. (“Q” is supposed to reference the character’s government security clearance level).
*#Q followers believe an even more incoherent version of Pizzagate. This is largely a right-wing fantasy that originated in a series of incoherent posts on #4chan in 2017 by someone calling themselves #QAnon. Following on the heels of similar idiocy such as Pizzagate, it advances a fantastic web of deceit that wraps up Trumpism, deep state fearmongering, evil, satanic pedophilia rings controlled by the Democratic Party, investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, the Las Vegas shooting, and New World Order paranoia into a package easily and wholeheartedly promoted by internet cesspools and far-right personalities such as Alex Jones.
The premise is that President Trump is secretly working to take down a global ring of elite, cannibalistic, satanic pedophiles. And the investigation into Russian meddling into the 2016 election, led by former FBI director Robert Mueller, is actually an investigation into the so-called “deep state”, where a cabal of evil, globalists, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are responsible for everything from a global pedophile ring to the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017.
According to the enlightened, when Trump awkwardly took a drink from a bottle of Fiji water at a press conference in November 2017, it wasn’t because he was thirsty; it was actually a secret signal to those in the know that the annihilation of deep state pedophiles had begun (or was about to begin). Because as everyone knows, Fiji is a hot spot for child trafficking.* ( I could go on and on with this poorly thought-out shit, I will spare you )
The role the Internet and social media play in helping to spread such insanity can’t be underestimated. Just a few decades earlier, conspiracy theorists would identify each other using letters to the editor printed in newspapers and magazines. It was a lot harder to identify your fellow conspiracy theorists. You would have to physically meet to swap your stories or send letters or call. They would set up these groups that would communicate by newsletter. They would meet in a physical space, like someone’s living room.
I personally witnessed people from my childhood, dutifully photocopying newsletters they had received in the mail to give to others (Primarily at my #JW congregation, how ironic). Now obviously it can go much more quickly, because you can identity people immediately. You can quickly share ideas and the data you’ve collected.
The Internet allows such people to exist in bubbles where they rarely have their beliefs challenged. The extraordinarily polarized society we’re in right now has made people less willing to seek out other view points. Because of the internet you have less chance of doing this.
There’s very little incentive to look outside one’s own bubble once they have become invested in a conspiracy theory. Once you start to act out on those behaviors you are forced to double down by repeating the act to prove it was a just act. Eventually you get caught up in a movement that totally defines your conscious and you can’t get out of it. The second you step out of that world view your actions go back to being reprehensible.
Now the question becomes, “What’s the harm? If it sheds light on child abuse, then isn’t it still productive?” The answer in this case is a resounding NO. In my opinion and PAINFUL experience, the root cause and sustaining factors of institutionalized child sex abuse are all things that would counter your typical Conspiracy Nut’s world view, thus causing a complete blackout to the problems.
The entity taking part in the harming of children on a local and tangible level aren’t some suit and tie wearing global elitist. It’s a guidance counselor, youth pastor, unvetted young substitute teacher, aunt/uncle/cousin/neighbor.
It’s anyone who has been given routine private access to a child’s mind and body because of the social conventions that have been protected for generations by our relatives whether they themselves are guilty of abuse or not.
In all the Qanon madness I also kept very close tabs on the pending prosecution of the Boy scouts of America and never saw any widely shared memes about their involvement in the abuse syndicate.
Why is this? How is this so? Aren’t these people watching the news, seeing the court records and hearing the individual cases being brought against Scout Leaders (SOME OF WHO RAN THEIR OWN NETWORKS!!)?
When I would find mention of accusation it was met with the ever scarce “skepticism” because if the media is covering it, it must be a plot to destroy the organization. There are now non-for profit organizations setting up victim funds and protections for people to come out with their stories and somehow THIS is the fake ruse.
Some that know me know that I was a Jehovah’s Witness as a youth/teen/young adult. That chapter of my life could fill many chapters and the research on the organization, the real true black and white history of the religion would honestly surprise you. I saw what I now know was abuse, I personally experienced abuse in many forms. The perpetrators involved are either still Witnesses or are dead or have moved “away from the organization”.
One thing that was left intact in each situation was the secret that they prey on children. The parents, these organizations and the collective promise to keep up appearances are directly to blame for the suffering untold thousands, millions of children and broken adults.
All for what? Pride and Vanity and a commitment to all involved to protect them from the “mean old world” despite allowing predators to eat their children from within.
Being a #JW was a very interesting experience. It provides a very efficient form of insulation from outside society and allows people involved to view the chaos from afar. There is this persistent (albeit false) sense of shared peace that members have. It’s as though for three days a week you go to this meeting where no matter what, everyone has a smile and feels about things EXACTLY how you do. There is no cursing, there are no politics, there surely isn’t any destructive influences that would tarnish your chances of salvation. For a parent this is a refuge when raising a child in a world that is dangerously unpredictable.
A Child that you are unable (or unwilling) to teach coping skills to get along by societal standards, A child you want to protect by hiding. This is problem #1.
As an adult the congregation presents an avenue for which you can act and behave in a way that allows you to reconcile your past, a way to have less of those nights awake because you think about past wrongs you’ve committed against people. It’s the proverbial band-aid for a guilty, bruised, destroyed conscious of any size. Coming into the organization takes nothing more than the desire to change, publicly declaring your willingness to hand over your life to God (The organization). Bam, You’re in! No credit check, no background check. This is problem #2.
A JW is taught that “every facet is an asset” (Ministerial Servants know what I’m talking about). What this means is that every facet of your life is an asset to the organization to spread its word. If the world see’s their product’s application into your life and thereby how much better it is than a normal person’s, then they’ve made an “Effective Witness” to the world. This causes Witnesses of any age to allow almost every facet of their life to be a tool by the organization. For a parent this includes their children. This is problem #3.
When you get a culture that insulates itself from the real world, that allows you to enter without any coherent vetting, give access to children whose parents feel obligated to present as a “witness” to the lifestyle. You get a twisted corridor in which victims can get lost for a lifetime and predators can hide in plain sight.
For any proponents of the “Save-The-Children” movement to not take a step back and really analyze their local community and lifestyle through these lenses only illustrates that child abuse is being weaponized politically at the expense of others whom you aren’t willing to save because it would look bad for ‘your side’. If you truly care, you wouldn’t be sharing email forwards about what evil unverified unmentionable thing you read some celebrity or politician did. Instead, you’d be drawing back on your experiences as a child.
Even if nothing happened directly to you, I’m sure you know some one that had an experience that forever harmed their life. Who did it? Was there a pattern or social condition that allowed for this as was laid out in the JW example?
How could it have been avoided? Would you have stopped it if you saw the signs? Are you willing to stop it in the future, knowing what you know now?
If you can answer any of those questions with a yes, then you have all you need to WRITE your own material to reach real victims and their families. Does your action cause problems for your ‘side’? It shouldn’t matter and you know that. If it does make a difference to you then you are no better than the shadowy pedophilic cabal that you are so obsessed with.

Hello all my talented friends! I was wondering if anyone here has an egg free cake recipes they love?
I have identical twins and one has bad reactions to eggs even as an ingredient or in other dishes (such as pastas). Hoping like most kids she will eventually outgrow it.
Looking for egg free cake recipes for smash cakes for their first birthday, it will be their first time having cake or any kind of dessert so gotta do it up right. 💕
Thanks in advance! (They are just about 10 months I’m asking now so I have time to practice).
Cheers!!!

was making lemon blondies yesterday and messed up the recipe by adding a cup of butter instead of 1/2 and ended up making buttery lemon cake bar things, my dad loves them LOL

Hey everyone, I'm usually a green/hedge witch but at the moment my spell work is pretty up to date and it's just a case of tending to it a bit a day. I have a severe gluten intolerance that my wife and kids don't share so eating together is quite difficult so I figured I'd try my hand at some kitchen witchcraft mainly for some cakes or something like that to get started. I have gluten free flour so I wondered if someone could point me in the direction of some recipes that we can all enjoy extra points if the recipes are dog safe too because my little familiar boy, Hal has painfully broken a nail and is quite down at the moment because of it, it's really upsetting to see him so subdued but he loves being part of meal times so it would do us all good for him to be able to join in. Thanks as always 🤙

For Mother’s Day I tried to made a génoise cake but after I baked it , it didn’t really rise and was kinda dense. Any advice on where I went wrong ?
Recipe: 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter 1 cup of sifted cake flour 1/2 cup sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt 4 eggs, room temp 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
Baked in an oven at 350F

My energy level has gotten abysmal
Tldr: I'm physically and mentally limited by my energy level and I'm wasting away, which feeds back into low energy. But I'm doing a lot of things to fight it
On Sunday I made a breakfast cake for the fam and just cooking up that little recipe, I went to catch a 20 minute nap and woke up at almost 10pm. Just for reference my dad thought I would be a chef, making a cake used to be light work
I have to lay in bed or nap after I do anything. I have really bad amotivation that feels like physical weight dragging me down and low energy levels caused by depression
I'm physically restricted from doing even mildy energy intensive tasks after I've done a "big" one.
And like 3 small things will become a big thing
I'm in bed between everything, so easily 22 hours a day including sleeping. I had to get physical therapy because of muscle atrophy
I used to lift heavy weights and had my body type compared to a gorilla. Now I can barely sit up in bed. How am I supposed to live an active lifestyle if I can physically only stand for a few minutes?
Tomorrow I decided to get my shit together. I'm going to wake up at like 4 am and go on a walk. I don't want anyone to look at me I'm sure you understand. Otherwise I'd go right now.
And risparidone made me put on 100lbs, which tanks my energy. I started working on losing that 2 weeks ago. I know this doesn't sound healthy, but I lost 15 pounds so far. My diet is to only eat 3 meals a day and get 1 helping each meal. I'm just glad my weight doesn't start with a 3
Im also working on getting a cpap machine
If I stay the course I can break out of this because nobody can live like this