Three tier oven

The day came I was going to use my new oven rack for the first time! It was a Saturday, and in the evening I was going to have dinner with Jaco and Marjan, and the tradition is that the host cooks the mains and the guest brings dessert. If we meet on a weekday I just buy it, but on a Saturday I can make something myself. And I thought it was a good day for pears, because they warm you on a cold winter’s day. So I googled a pear dessert recipe and ran with it.

My amount of cake for personal use was also exhausted, so I wanted to do something about that as well. So after the dessert tart had gone into the oven, I made a batter for an arbitrary cake, and put that in the oven as well! Efficient use of the heat. And I had made so much batter I wasn't sure it would rise out of the container I was using, so I put some of it in an overflow cake tin. I would never have managed to get that all into the oven without the extra racks! So I was pleased with myself.

I was also pleased with the outcome! Both cake and tart came out like I hoped they would. Success! And I could imagine myself doing this in the not so distant future with one entire meal in the oven, and one cake. Plenty of space!