HMC x 3

I used to go on a consistent craze for lemon cake. Now, it seems that hot milk cake has taken its place. I made it three times last week, once as you saw in the previous post. It was only on the second time that I totally succeeded with no mistakes. On my third attempt, my mom pushed me to color it green with pandan. After I took the heated milk & butter off the stove, I beat some pandan into it, which was a B.I.G. mistake!! :(!! I should have added it when I had to mix the wet with the dry. Beating the pandan gave off air into the butter and milk, slowly cooling it, and possibly ruining its structure. The recipe said to heat the butter and milk JUST until the butter melted. What did I do? I added an extra ingredient and extra air. What was the outcome?? Sunken, unpuffy cake. I'll show you what I mean.

The second attempt... the one that really worked. Compare it to the photo below.

See how flat it is? (The green sets off a morbid theme here.)

As for the cuts...

Rising proudly

Whereas here, it sunk about an inch.

I might've liked the green cake more if it hadn't been green. Want to know the worst part? I gave some to Mom to give to her classmates.

Soz, we don't have the best backgrounds or lighting

Gasp, chocolate chips

I really want to make more, but I made orange/lemon bars recently (which'll go into another post), and my mom told me "Don't make dessert every day."

Anyway, thanks for reading!!

N