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Can’t remember if I posted about finally buying Pichet Ong’s The Sweet Spot, I think I did, but these days that doesn’t count for all that much. Anyways, I did buy it a while back, and although almost every single recipe in the book looks and sounds delish, I haven’t made all that many different things from the book. I was actually planning to go chronologically, but that was doomed to fail from the very first, because the first recipe’s for Banana Cake, and well, 1 person+1 comb of banana=many many overripe bananas–which, in this case, would be a good thing, except that it really means I hardly ever buy bananas.  But I wanted to bake, and had even went to buy a loaf pan for the occasion. Yes, a loaf pan, but not bananas. What can I say. In any case, I started on the second recipe, Condensed Milk Pound Cake. Reading American food blogs I’m always perplexed and amused by the reactions/descriptions of condensed milk. They invariably say that it’s tooth-achingly (or some similarly hyperbolic adjective) sweet and that it’s NOT EVAPORATED MILK.  I’ve always loved condensed milk, and I always used to (ok, I still do) dip my finger in the condensed milk and just lick it off, so I’ve never found it too-too sweet. In fact this really does boggle my mind, because condensed milk’s not really that much sweeter than say, honey, or..you know. other sweet things. haha. And as for the condensed v evaporated milk thing, I guess I just never knew that the two would be confusable. But I guess that’s just cos they’re things we’ve grown up with.  (I do wonder how these people would react to teh-c vs teh vs all the other inbetweens with varying degrees of sugar and tea-strength..haha)

Anyway, the first time I made it, the pound cake was pretty good, so then I went and bought small bananas (like the recipe called for) and made banana cake. But I added the optional chocolate chips (cos I love banana cake with little chiplets of chocolate inside) and I don’t know what went wrong, but te whole cake was just…saggy, soggy, and just..odd. Reeeeally really wet, I baked it for like..50mins and it was still raw-tasting in the middle. But those two were with the Sengkang microwave oven so..

In any case, the big microwave from my mum’s house has been brought over, and I made banana cake again tonight, sans the chocolate chips. And it was gooood. The last ingredient that goes in is yoghurt, and this time, when I added it, the whole batter just pooofed up and got all..airy. When it came out of the oven and had cooled, I sliced it and ate it and it was goooood too.

This time it turned out just like the headnotes said, bready-cakey and light, with a delicious honey flavour to it. I love it love it love it.

Yay!

It makes me v happy when things go well in the kitchen.

Shall take a picture tomorrow and post it up here. In the meantime, it’s time for bed..

And ohhh boy, I am so not looking forward to the week ahead..School sucks.