Can't cook but want to impress your girlfriend/boyfriend on their birthday/valentines/etc:
Take a can of pressurised ready-mixed cake mix, shake it, squirt it into a cake tin, and bung it in the oven for 20 mins. Top it off with icing from a pressurised can of pre-mixed icing, and "Hey Presta!"
Cake mix could come in, say, plain, chocolate or lemon flavours. Add chocolate chips and squirt it into a muffin tin for choc-chip muffins, or squirt little rings of it into hot oil for doughnuts.-- Frankx, Feb 23 2004 Sponge pudding in a can http://shop.store.y...eastore/cak003.htmlNot quite a birthday cake, but sponge nonetheless. ($3.20 is a bit steep) [suctionpad, Oct 17 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004] ... now if the can was double-ended ie. cake dough from one end, icing from the other, then I think you'd be on to something here [Frankx] +-- jonthegeologist, Feb 23 2004 Someone who needs this is unlikely to have a cake tin. Why not sell the whole thing pre-packaged in a cake tin? (Remove outer packaging and film, place in an oven preheated to...)-- st3f, Feb 27 2004 Baked. I've been seeing Coke in a can for.....Oh, sorry. Never mind.....-- normzone, Feb 27 2004 Thats EXACTLY what I thought upon first reading this title, [norm]-- Letsbuildafort, Feb 27 2004 It's those twenty minutes in the oven you have to watch out for, but buntheless, I like it. +-- k_sra, Feb 27 2004 Widely Baked, surely?-- DrCurry, Feb 27 2004 Like the ready to bake croissants in a can? (+) just for reminding me.-- silverstormer, Feb 27 2004 random, halfbakery