never go against the "recipes"

cake mixture turned out too watery

fresh out from the oven

nice golden colour

today i decided
to bake the orange chiffon cake
lydia has give me
the ACTUAL recipe for this cake

thinking i had all
that were needed
i didnt do any marketing
this morning

and as i was laying
out all the ingredients
then i realised
i didn't have
the MOST VITAL ingredients:
orange juice, lemon juice
orange zest, lemon zest

think i didn't 'study'
the recipe in depth
must have thought
pandan chiffon cake
and orange chiffon cake
can't be THAT FAR OFF
the most is to change
the pandan paste to
orange paste lo
Ya, SO i thought

little did i realise
the orange chiffon cake recipe
is SUCH A FAR CRY from
the PANDAN chiffon cake! :"(

so the 'never say die' me
very 'cleverly' improvised
my own recipe by
baking orange chiffon cake
using pandan chiffon cake recipe!
thinking all i need
to do is change
the flavour paste only

the only thing i see not right
is the defrost
coconut milk
it has became
2 separate bodies:
fine grated coconut-like
floating in oily water-like base
it longer looked like
white opaque liquid
but i still went ahead to use
cos it has not gone bad

however it has made
the whole cake mixture
rather watery
and my heart turned'cold'
i think there is
a problem here

so i popped in
the 2 cake to bake
one MAMA, one BABY
ya i bought another
super mini mould
so cute!

anyway i waited anxiously
the cake didnt rise
as it should
but all else looked ok

taste verdict:
the orange flavour
is not obvious
but the coconut taste is
the cake felt moist
but is dry
even my mum commented
its wet and dry

so i sms-ed lydia
to tell her the verdict
she laughed and replied
she: OOps...next round you follow the recipe exactly
me: ya, so proven cannot anyhow use pandan cake recipe to bake orange cake :"P
she: told you so! i give you full marks for bravery thou!

hee, ok next week i follow
also i target to
bake the choco swirl cheesecake again!