Stress baking is A Thing
Spite baking is also a thing. I totally just made a box cake my sister in law left here at my mum’s house a few years ago, because the spaghetti has been floating around the kitchen in this ENORMOUS container because it was the only thing long enough, and the container with the box cake mix was the PERFECT size, and I was ANGRY about the box cake mix taking up the container. So, now I will have freshly baked out of date box cake and an appropriately sized spaghetti container.
I hope the spite cake was edible…if not at least you have the pasta storage sorted!
It was mediocre and bland but edible, as box cakes are!
(I mean, they’re great for non-bakers who want to make something, but I was helping Mum with baking since I could stand, made a swiss roll completely from scratch unsupervised at eight – no cracks in my sponge when I rolled it, either! – so, they never quite satisfy me. I can also taste all the garbage they put in to make them shelf stable, which doesn’t help.)
knitting in the dark 