Fail Cakes

IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL BEFORE IT DIED.

You can kind of see how it dying, though.

Note to self: make space in the freezer BEFORE putting a cake into it.

It was a good thing I even have pictures of it before the incident. One side of the mango-pudding layer (seen above) was beginning to crack, so I cut that chunk off and ate it. Then I saw the other sides were begging to crack and slide off, which is when I ran to get my camera. I don't think the cake itself turned out horrible, it just what happened to it after that made it fail. I don't want to explain the accident, because it's a tragic one indeed, but lets just say that most of the pudding and whipped cream ended up in the freezer than on people's plates.

Two days of work gone in just three seconds. I seriously wanted to cry afterwards if my cousin wasn't there. :(
(I knew the cake not rising was a bad sign.)

I don't know how much you people would like to make this cake, though, because I don't think it turned out properly. Alas...

Mango Mandarin Pudding Green Tea Cake

Green Tea Sponge Cake
(Stolen from here.)

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup cake flour, shifted
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 tbsp melted butter
• 1 teaspoon honey
• 2 teaspoon matcha

Mango Mandarin Pudding

• 1/4 can mango pulp 
• 1 cup mandarin juice
• 1 cup hot water
• 125 g half and half
• 2 pkgs gelatin

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Using a hand mixer, beat the eggs and sugar over a bowl of hot water (ideally around 170 degrees) until frothy and doubled in size. Remove from the hot water once the eggs are warm enough to touch. Add honey and continue beating until you can draw a ribbon which will last for 3 seconds.
3. Combine matcha and flour together and shift into the bowl. Fold the it into the eggs until combined, then fold in the butter until smooth (around 30 folds). Try not to mix too much or it'll prevent the cake from rising.
4. Pour into baking pan and drop it a couple of times on the counter to break any air bubbles. Bake for 30 minutes or until you can insert a skewer and it comes out clean.
5. For the pudding, first dissolve the gelatin in the hot water. Then stir in everything else and let it set in the fridge for an hour or two before pouring on top of cake. Afterwards, allow the whole thing to set overnight.
6. Decorate with whipped cream (or stars cut out from mangos like I did).

UGH, IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL. I couldn't even enjoy eating it because I was so heartbroken.


But that's not the only cake I made this week! Behold, my banana bread (my mom refers to it as a banana cake so close enough).

My banana bread... or half of it anyways.

It's fail because it's under baked and it came all congealed on the bottom. But the top part was delicious.

Got the recipe from here. Kept everything pretty much the same except I substituted the butter for greek yogurt, and I added almonds. Yogurt was a good idea, almonds not so much.