Bread is forgiving, cakes are much harder. You can make edible bread with flour, water and heat. It’s a little hard to mess up totally. Cake is different. If y

Bread is forgiving, cakes are much harder. You can make edible bread with flour, water and heat. It’s a little hard to mess up totally. Cake is different. If you’re lucky, or really know how the chemistry works, messing around with a cake recipe will make a different, yet still edible kind of baked good.