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I wouldn’t recommend it, especially if it includes baking powder and/or baking soda.Baking powder is a mix of an acid and a base, and as soon as you mix it into the batter it reacts with the liquids in it – and makes the batter rise by producing millions of tiny bubbles of carbon dioxide.Baking soda is a base and reacts with the acidity already present in the batter.Chemical leavening. That reaction has a finite time, though, and after a while it stops. It starts happening as soon as you add the powders to the batter – that’s why some recipes recommend adding them last.If you don’t bake your batter by then, it will not rise in the oven, resulting in a flat, dense cake. The structure of an uncooked batter is not firm enough to keep those bubbles trapped in.As for pre-aerated batters, such as egg-bases cakes, the same thing would happen – the batter is not firm enough to trap the bubbles in, the ones you spent so long whipping into your eggs. Egg proteins are rather fragile and can’t hold the air in for long in their raw, uncooked state.Much better to just bake the cake and freeze it, well-wrapped, afterwards.

The Flash.He can simply take me back in time AND to an alternate dimension with a different version of Earth. Few other superheroes could follow us both through time and through dimensions. Even the ones who have the power or technology to follow us would have a pretty hard time figuring out what time period we went to or where to start looking for us after that.I'll assume that as long as the other heroes are trying to kill me, Flash continues protecting me, so he would just periodically transport us from one time period and dimension to another. I'd have him take me to a point in time in some different dimension where I could go into the laboratory to be intentionally bitten by the spider that gave Peter Parker his powers, so I'd get Spider-Man's powers instead.Then I'd go to another time and dimension to use my powers and knowledge of the characters to steal an Iron Man suit of armor from Tony Stark, before he built in technology allowing him to take control of any armor based on his designs.Then take me to another dimension where I could intervene when Abin Sur is about to die, and take the Lantern ring for myself. I'd be Spider-Man with Green Lantern's powers to boot. I'd then also have Flash take me to some point in time in yet another dimension where Luthor is building Metallo, and I'd use my powers to steal the Kryptonite. With my power ring, I'd turn the Kryptonite into a covering for my Iron Man armor, and also create some missile tips to replace the ones on the small rockets fired by the Iron Man armor.I think the combo of having Spider-Man's powers, a Lantern Ring, Iron Man armor, and Kryptonite would make me capable of helping Flash fight off any of the superheroes if they found us. Then, we'd go back to the original timeline where these other superheroes are trying to kill me, and we'd first target certain of them one by one. I'd not tell Flash that each character was being killed, though, since he might object. I'd instead have him participate up til the part of the plans that involve killing the other characters, and then I'd tell him I'm using my power ring to store them in an inescapable prison I've generated (I'd even create such a facility, just for appearance's sake, and send Flash off immediately after I take control of each of the other characters).1. Captain America, Tony Stark, and Robin could all be taken out relatively quickly with my powers -- Flash would run by and grab them at super-speed, to get them away from anyone nearby; I'd use my ring to encase them in a bubble and float them up into space; I'd deactivate the bubble, killing them instantly in space;2. I'd do the same with Wolverine, except I'd use my power ring to send tiny shards of energy through his body cutting connecting tissue between his bones, allowing me to decapitate him and remove his arms and legs, then I'd encase each piece in power ring bubbles tight around them, and send them all into the sun where he could never regenerate even if his bones never got destroyed there;3. I'd go to the Daily Planet and wait, and when Clark showed up for work I'd have The Flash push me (while I wear roller skates) at super-speed right up to Superman, to surprise him. With my Kryptonite Iron Man armor and power ring, plus my spider-powers, I think I could subdue him quickly. I'd shoot him with Kryptonite missiles that would fragment inside his body, and I'd fly him to a prepared vault in which I'd lock him (his body still shot full of Kryptonite and mortally wounded). I'd have Flash move us into another time and dimension, where I'd hurl the vault into space toward a black hole;4. I'd watch Paradise Island until Wonder Woman arrived there, and then use my power ring to suddenly destroy the parts of the island that are under the ocean, causing the island to sink into the sea. Then I'd have the Flash run at top speed to grab each Amazon as they swim or fly out of the ocean, and deposit them in some alternate time and dimension when Earth is still forming and has toxic air etc, letting them quickly die there. This way, not only Wonder Woman but any of her family and warriors will be prevented from coming after me later;5. I'd use my power ring to create a Green Goblin flying over Manhattan to draw out Spider-Man, and then when he showed up I'd have Flash run at him at top speed to trip him, and with my power ring I'd create a shrinking bubble around his head to crush it in seconds, or I'd create millions of tiny dust-size specks of energy that fly up his nose into his lungs before expanding rapidly to make his chest explode;6. I'd make myself resemble another legit Lantern, and seek out Green Lantern. When he arrived, Flash would run by and take his power ring. I'd keep his ring, and just shoot him with an Iron Man missile to kill him;7. Knowing Batman is Bruce Wayne, I'd wait for him to show up at Wayne Enterprises, and send Flash to get him -- but I'd tell Flash not to run at top speed, to let Bruce see him and draw him out; then I'd let Bruce use whatever plan he has (he has one, he always has one) to incapacitate the Flash; then I'd use my power ring to surround the building with a thick energy bubble, which would shrink down to the size of a baseball in a split second, destroying the entire building and everybody inside, including Batman and the Flash; my reasoning is, once all the others are gone, Flash will eventually realize I've used him to kill those characters off, so he might turn against me as well, so I better get rid of him, too; however, if the idea is that the character I pick to defend me will remain my ally no matter what, then I'd keep the Flash around as my ally; alternately, I might keep him alive and have him take me to one final time and dimension, where I'd wait for the moment when an alternate Barry Allen got his powers, and I'd jump in and take his place to get the powers instead; this would grant me my own ability to travel through time and dimensions, while Flash (the version of him helping me) could get back to his regular superhero duties again.Now I'm the only one left standing. I've got two power rings, Iron Man armor, spider-powers, Kryptonite weapons and armor to protect against other Kryptonian characters, possibly Flash's powers as well, and the reputation of being the guy all those characters were trying to kill but who destroyed all of them.

It’s very damn likely — Here’s a Top 10 list of reasons why …First though, let’s say that apocalyptic means events that injure or kill millions, and lifetime means within the life expectancy of children today, say up to about the year 2100. We’ll also include events that might not have a high body count, but which degrade life in fundamentally severe ways.Also please bear in mind that although some of the following catastrophes are regional, they can have a severe economic impact globally…Fair warning as well, this is a long answer.Okay, ready…?Quantum Intelligence misused. What can we expect when we combine advanced machine learning with quantum computers that are expected to be millions or trillions of times more powerful than the best machines we have today?The fact is, no one knows. But for the first time in technological history there is a very real chance that some sort of ‘intelligence’ will emerge. It may not be independently creative like a human — or even much like a human at all — but there’s a good chance it will be able to out-think any human being (learn more here).Before we look at the dangers, however, let’s spend a moment looking at the up side, because QI machines could be fantastically beneficial… We could ask them to work on our hardest problems and maybe they can come up with solutions no human could even be capable of imagining… breakthroughs we can quickly put to good use. Perhaps we can even ask them to invent ever more potent generations of themselves. The convergence of AI with quantum computing could dwarf any other technology development in human history. The possibilities are endless and the benefits could be huge.However, there’s a down side…Any reasonable person must ask, what happens if it goes wrong? Do we even understand what we’re doing here? It’s only natural to wonder, how screwed are we if one of these things goes psycho on us?Could it become Skynet and nuke us all? Will we see terminators ravaging the landscape? Could this lead us to a ‘rise of the machines’, completely out of control and bent on killing us?The answer is a resounding NO. Rogue machines aren’t a risk, instead the problem is with rogue people and nations using these super-potent devices.It’s easy to guess that the military of advanced nations like the USA, Russia, China, South Korea, Japan and members of the EU will be early and enthusiastic adopters of QI, once the money they are already pouring into research bears fruit. So the real threat isn’t machines going berserk, the danger is we get into a sort of quantum Game of Thrones — battles between nations applying their advanced QI to social, economic or military conquest. Dominance executed entirely by humans but under the guidance of potent QI.A nuclear detonation, whether intentional or not. Nine nations have a total of almost 15,000 nuclear weapons, and some are producing more every week. From a strategic viewpoint these are among the most valuable ‘assets’ a military can possess, and from a civilian viewpoint they are among the scariest things in the world. So they are all very well guarded, and their use is controlled by potent authorization systems and fail-safe mechanisms. It’s all very sophisticated, but not completely perfect.It’s within the realm of reason that a device could fall into the hands of people intent on causing harm. And although the trigger mechanisms are fantastically secure, nothing made by humans is perfect. Further, the knowledge of how to construct a crude low-yield but still nuclear device is no longer secret, and there are small but alarming discrepancies in the accounting for the whereabouts of nuclear materials in places like Russia.There is therefore a non-trivial chance that sometime in the next 80 or so years one of these damn things will go off. If it’s on purpose the intent will be clear, but even if it’s by accident there’s a very real chance that it could be misinterpreted as intentional. Either way, all hell is going to break loose.If the detonation is thought to be intentional, you will see the nearly immediate suspension of civil liberties with the imposition of Martial Law as the effort to detect more weapons gets underway, including the suspension of ALL international travel and trade in the effected nation(s) and perhaps beyond. The impact on the target area will be beyond horrible, perhaps with high body counts, but the impact on the global financial system will be truly devastating, and may last for years. It would make the Great Depression seem like a Hawaiian Holiday.Remember, there are still almost 15,000 of these damn things, and although they are no longer making headlines, they haven’t gone way… they are still an existential threat. Even just one is enough to cause a massive crisis.A global pandemic. Most of the microorganisms that attack humans fall into one of two broad behavioral categories: they are easily transmissible but not usually fatal, or they are often fatal but not easily transmissible. For example, colds and flues are transmissible through the air or by casual contact, but usually don’t kill people. On the other hand, until recently HIV was a fatal virus, but not easily transmissible.Unfortunately, we are beginning to see outbreaks of things that are both easily transmissible and usually fatal. Some are natural, such as hemorrhagic fevers like Ebola, and some are natural but made much more potent as consequence of our own actions, such as strains of bacteria that have become highly resistant to antibiotics, partly because we have over-used them so much.So far we’ve been able to combat outbreaks because they have occurred in remote places or in circumstances where other controls can be put in place. And transmission rates have been just slow enough that we can isolate and combat the organisms. But we are being given some serious warnings — cruise liners are returning to port with hundreds of passengers sickened by Norovirus. People are dying of infections that were easily curable a generation ago, but which now fail to respond to any antibiotic. Hemorrhagic fevers keep trying to gain a foothold. The numbers are still tiny, but there’s no guarantee it will stay that way.With more people traveling further and more frequently than ever before, we are doing a bang-up job of mixing the global germ pot.Major seismic events on the US west coast. There’s strong evidence indicating the west coast of the USA may suffer a set of major seismic events within the next 50 to 75 years. This could happen tomorrow, or in the year 2079, but it’s within the lifetimes of many alive today.A complex line of faults stretches more than a thousand miles from Washington state to south of Los Angles. Modern structures in those states (buildings, bridges, etc.) have been engineered to withstand up to about a magnitude 7.0 quake. Everyone finds that very reassuring, but it’s a false sense of security: There are millions of older structures (houses, apartments, etc.) that would suffer horrendous damage in a 7.0.More worrying, once the energy released goes above that, to a magnitude 8.0 or 9.0 (10 to 100 times more powerful), all bets are off — even the best engineering will suffer catastrophic damage. It’s also wrong to talk about “the big one” as if there will be a single nasty quake in one spot. There is a good chance that there will be many “big ones” as the faults unzip along much of that thousand miles.Because some parts of that fault system are underwater, in addition to the seismic shaking there is also a very real possibility of one or more large tsunamis, especially in Washington and Oregon. The faults are relatively close to shore, so there would be very little warning. Depending on the magnitude and extent of thrusting, the waves could be extremely large and cause damage in Canada, Alaska and potentially through much of the Pacific.A super-volcano eruption. A lot of attention has been given recently to a super-eruption of Yellowstone, which would certainly be cataclysmic. But we’ve carpeted Yellowstone with instrumentation and there is no indication of large-scale activity. It’s like a pot of water on the lowest flame setting, quietly bubbling up prismatic hot springs and entertaining geysers.Such is not the case with the Laguna del Maule volcanic field in Chile, which is showing alarming signs of large-scale activity. Although it’s located in the southern hemisphere, a major eruption there would have short-term climatic consequences globally, especially on agriculture, even in the United States and Europe.In the north we could see a season or two of severely reduced yields, and in the southern hemisphere we could see a humanitarian crisis so large that it dwarfs all others in history. The agriculture of South America could completely collapse, resulting in the deaths by starvation of hundreds of millions, accompanied by huge waves of mass emigration. Likewise through much of the already fragile sub-Saharan African continent.A major coronal mass ejection (CME) 10 times stronger than the Carrington Event. This would be enough to fry our power grid and destroy thousands of substation transformers. What have we done to protect it from catastrophic failure? Basically nothing. How many spare transformers do we keep in emergency inventory? Almost none.The best we could hope for is that our leaders have the guts to shut down the entire power grid and intentionally plunge the country into darkness so we can isolate at least some components before the CME hits. If we detect it coming.Large-scale climate disruptions. If climate change continues at projected rates over the next 80 years, no less an authority than NASA pegs the chances of severe drought periods throughout the mid west US at 25–35%. Each would last from three years up to three decades. If it’s toward the shorter side, say, 3 or 4 years, food prices will be driven way up, but supplies will still be marginally sufficient as farmers rely on ground water extraction. But if it’s toward the longer side, say, 15 or 20 years, much of the Green American Miracle will collapse.This may be accompanied by an increase in the number and severity of major storms, mostly hurricanes and nor'easters. The east coast of the USA is highly vulnerable to such storms, which contain winds and create storm surges that can do stunning amounts of damage. Cities like Miami, New York or Boston could suffer very serious damage, perhaps enough to cripple them for months.The costs of coping with these things could bankrupt major insurance carriers, and require billions of dollars of government assistance to keep them from becoming completely insolvent. Cities would likewise require vast sums of money to rebuild and to create better coastal storm protections. And that’s just the weather in the USA. Massive problems will also be occurring in many other countries, perhaps at the same time.Dystopian Data scenarios, mostly based on or around things like the abuse of facial recognition, GPS tracking and DNA tracing. We’re already a serious distance down the road toward a surveillance society, and rushing forward seemingly without any doubt or question.We need look no further than what’s happening in China with its new Social Credit system to realize that maybe we need to put a few speed bumps into this process. If the power of all that data ever falls into evil hands… well, to put it bluntly, we’re completely f*cked.We can only guess how likely this might be, but if history has taught us anything, we know that governments don’t always remain stable or fair. In fact, they never do.Serious geopolitical instability resulting in large-scale economic or military conflict. Russia is becoming increasingly hostile, almost certainly with expansionism in mind. China is becoming a superpower and militarizing like crazy. North Korea has nukes. India and Pakistan still hate one another, and they both have nukes too. The middle-east remains a hotbed of political, economic and religious conflict.For the last 70 years the USA has been in several large military conflicts, and yet if you walked down the streets or into the supermarkets of any American town, you couldn’t tell a war was on unless you specifically thought to ask. We’ve had the luxury of not being impacted on an ongoing daily basis by any of it.That may not continue. There is a real chance that a truly serious conflict could develop that might result in genuine hardships across much of the world, including high body counts, severe rationing, cyber attacks, major redirection of budgets, and more. There’s no way to assign a probability to any of that, but it’s sure not zero.Severe economic depression. The USA has gone into debt in a very big way. This is risky. We’ve been there before and have managed to step back from the edge without trashing ourselves, but if any of the other things on this list happen, it might be impossible to recover in a reasonable period of time. Put simply, we have no savings, no reserves, so if anything really big and bad happens, we might find ourselves with more economic stress than we can handle.And it’s not just the USA. The sort of fiscal irresponsibility which leads to economic depressions has become routine policy in nations ranging from the United Kingdom to New Zealand.Countries large and small have gotten away with almost everything you can imagine across the sweep of history, but the one thing no nation has ever successfully cheated on without armed conflict is money. In fact, if I had to guess which of these ten things was most likely to happen and cause massive problems, this would be it.And if this answer wasn’t already long, now for a bonus 11th possible cataclysm…Democracy Subverted. We are seeing an alarming rise in the skill with which powerful people with large amounts of money are able to use their material and intellectual resources to gain power. That’s noting new, of course, the rich have been influencing elections since the earliest Greek democracies. What is unprecedented are powerful new types of media, virtually all of which are “for sale” in the sense that’s it’s easy to buy highly targeted ads.These ads carry either positive or negative messages to an audience in which skepticism is at an all-time low. It’s entirely within reason to imagine that a cunning and evil force could by both legitimate and illegitimate means gain enough political power to bend the democratic process far enough that it breaks in their economic favor, at the cost of millions of less affluent citizens.Done repeatedly for a long enough period of time, they can turn a democracy into a totalitarian society where 1% of the people have 90% of the assets, and the legal power to keep it that way.I close with that because I think by the year 2100 there is a serious risk of this becoming a reality. A very serious risk.