By 635CSi - 06/06/2012 05:23 - United States - San Diego

Today, my father-in-law called me an idiot for buying him coffee cake because he can't have caffeine. He refuses to believe that there's as much coffee in coffee cake as there is ham in a hamburger. FML
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Batterypost 23

Actually, most hamburgers are 100% beef, while ham is pork. The more you know.

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strawberrywine22 30

Actually, I sell a homemade coffee cake in my restaurant and it is made with coffee. We use 6 tablespoons of instant coffee per batch of 12 2x3 cakes.

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whiterabbit420 4

23- just because your restaurant does it that way doesn't mean it's common practice. I consulted a couple of my baking books and not one of the recipes contained coffee.

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xStaciexLynnx 15

57- Just because your recipe books don't have it doesn't mean it's not common practice. (Just thought since you were acting like a know it all I'd turn it around on you.)

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challan 19

I add instant coffee grounds to all of my chocolate baked goods and coffee cake as well. Bakers secret.

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whiterabbit420 4

64- I consulted professional texts. If the advanced professional pastry chef doesn't say coffee cake has coffee, I'm inclined to think that well... It doesn't have coffee 71- I add espresso to all my chocolate things also, because chocolate already has caffeine, I don't put it in my crumb/coffee cake.

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AliceLockehart 18

I guess some people could use coffee essence, kinda like using vanilla essence instead of vanilla beans. Just a thought :).

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comment11111 39

that's what I thought - naturally, the is coffee in coffee cake.

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ChickInGreenVans 12

Okay..Whatever makes you sleep at night..

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lonkite101 14

Than someone doesn't get coffee cake!

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ManInTheMachine 19

OP buy coffee cake. Father-in-law no have caffine. Caffine bad for father-in-law. No coffee in coffee cake. Hope I helped.

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pexy_fml 16

Thank you Ur comment made laugh a lot :D

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pexy_fml 16

It's the hamburger that confused me Coz hamburger has ham in it it ddnt make sense otherwise it would be a chicken burger or fish-burger or whatever is in it

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Roflsauruz 12

Caffeine***, 34. :) 73- No. No actual HAM in the burger. He was referring to its name (HAMburger). It's made out of beef.

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MrFuzzles 5

Tell you what, send me the coffee cake and I'll eat all of it!

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Dallasluver19 14

Your father in law is an idiot.

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xcrazymonkey32x 0

And his mother in law smelled of elder berries

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MuseFan1991 14

59- so where does the hamster come into it? O.o

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menacingsprite 3

Coffee cake actually does have coffee in it and the guy that said carrot cake doesn't have carrots in it is a dodo. Carrot cake doesn't crunch because the carrots get cooked and become soft.

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whiterabbit420 4

42--- most coffee cakes are a plain pound cake topped with cinnamon-ish crumble.... And I've never seen one with coffee unless it was advertised as "coffee flavored coffee cake".

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devore504 7

like it matters they are both gross

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menacingsprite 3

All the recipes I use for coffee cake have had coffee in them. Some cakes are meant to eat with coffee and are misleadingly called coffee.

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perdix 29

Coffee cake is bullshit! It's false advertising. When you need that caffeine lift, it's a rip-off that coffee cake has none. It's like a stoner eating pot roast and getting no high! Tell the old dude his son just teabagged you, even though you didn't consume any tea . . . then give him a wet, sloppy kiss.

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lilacgold 16

Coffee cake can have coffee in, and tea cake can have tea in, and a carrot cake isn't a carrot cake unless it has carrots in. If it tastes of coffee, it usually contains coffee, though not usually in sufficient amounts to give a caffeine high...

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stewpididiot 11

Sponge cake however......

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lilacgold 16

I said it CAN have coffee, not that it always does - the term coffee cake can refer to coffee flavoured cake, which usually contains coffee, and cake intended to be eaten with coffee, which usually doesn't. Read the comment before raging about it.

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xNephilim 18

What kinda BS carrot cake do you make? In this case, there is a legit reason they call it CARROT cake. It's supposed to have carrots in it. Then again, why do I care, I can't stand carrot cake anyway.

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downtime 12

Something tells me this is one of those language barrier situations. I have never heard of "coffee cake" that wasnt a cake that tastes like coffee - and you can't guarantee it won't have coffee in it... Perhaps your father in law didn't come from the same background as you and he took it to mean a coffee cake in its literal form...just a possibility.

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