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A CAKE STORY

Or as this should be subtitled: My most recent culinary disaster. Today I post about cake. I  had to make a cake for a thing, and being as occasionally cakes I have baked have turned out okay - I've been making a mess in kitchens for a while now - I planned on making this one the night before.  I  had been thinking for days about what to make, had consulted books and much on-line surfing, and had decreed it would be none of the usual ones like boring banana, carrot, or chocolate cakes. Nothing wrong with those at all, except banana which is rather meh, but it was time to do something different. I decided to go with a vanilla themed wonder.  So there I am the night before, making this thing, creaming the butter and the castor sugar (note, no substituting basic margarine or normal sugar for this wonder) and it creamed up all nice and fluffy as per the instructions.  Then I added in the eggs and all of a sudden, it started to go a bit weird. As in, the previously creamed fluffy,