"The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" is the name of a book by Aimee Bender. It's one of those books that got rave reviews, so I bought it and it's been sitting on my shelf ever since. Today I thought of it because I made a disaster of a lemon cake. It made me think of the book ... now I might actually start reading it this week.
Today I tried one of the new flavors, it's a pudding mix called Lemon Chiffon. It was good, with a mild lemon flavor. As I was eating it, I thought this might make a tasty cake of sorts - so I then tried to create my own. It did not work. I mixed the pudding mix with some egg, some water, baking powder, baking soda, a bit of wheat bran and some Splenda.
As it was baking the dough rose nicely, it was looking good so far, but once I took it out of the oven ... disaster! After a few minute the entire cake sunk into a flat egg-y mess. I do have to say the flavor was pretty good - but the texture was very weird. Maybe next time I'll try it without the Egg Beaters. I was trying to adapt from another recipe - but clearly I'm no pastry chef. I really had no idea what I was doing. I'm much better at coming up with simpler recipes!
I'm going to give it another go on Monday. I'll let you know what happens (and share the recipe if it works). I am now determined to make a freakin' lemon cake ... if it's the last thing I do!
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