4C - Christopher Columbus Cooked Cookies

When a cake is so easy to make and so good to taste, who needs a cake mix?

I came home from Delhi, yet again. The next day, today, when I went to the kitchen to warm my lunch up, I thought of baking a vanilla cake. Even though we had chocolate powder, but I wanted to experiment with Vanilla, so as not to screw up the not-yet-cooked Chocolate cake.

I put palak paneer that my mom cooked into the microwave oven and side by side starting gathering the ingredients for my vanilla cake:

2 cups sugar
4 eggs
2-1/2 cups flour
1 cup milk
3/4 cup oil
2-1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

I preheated the OTG at 170 degrees C and started the intermediaries. In a bowl went eggs and sugar. I beat them with the hand blender till it was thick. Then I added milk and flour, oil, baking powder and vanilla and beat the hell out of it all for 3-4 min.

Then the batter went into the preheated greased baking pan. I put in the OTG for 40 minutes and went to eat my food while watching a pirated version of the new movie - Click. It is a pathetic copy of the Japanese movie - Shutter, and a very poor attempt to plagiarize.

I realized my hom was filled with an aroma. I felt the same thing on February 14 this year. I was in the Delhi metro going to Lajpat Nagar when some chick boarded my compartment and the aroma of a freshly baked cake filled the atmosphere.

The movie wasn't that good, it was awful, but the sweet smell seduced me and my senses. I wanted to munch on something, anything.

Around 4pm, I heard the OTG bell ring. It meant that 40 minutes were over. I waited, impatiently, for another half an hour for the pan and the cake to cool down. Took out my baking and boy it looked awesome.

This vanilla-scented cake was supposed to be simply irresistible when slathered with my favorite frosting and then layered in whipped cream and pineapple jam.

However, the way the Americas were discovered when Columbus started his journey to discover India, a thick layer of biscuit was baked when I really wanted to bake a vanilla cake. Why? because I used a very wide cross-sectioned, shallow pan instead of a deep one.

Well.. Good heavens it didn't burn.