***The True Test of a Good Butter Cake***

Ever bake a butter cake and it taste delicious fresh out of the oven, but smells like eggs the next day?

Such used to be the story of my cooking adventures. 

Half, sometimes more of my cake used to go to bin because no one would eat my cake. In fact, I hardly had any cake myself. I guess all the baking make me "jelak" before I even tasted the cake. I thus resorted to baking chocolate cakes. Why? The Cocoa powder masked the egg smell.

However, I soon learned (from Tessie, my sister, who in turn learned this from a cooking show in TV, see, TV is very educational) that you need to "de-sperm" the egg before you use it in a cake.

Also, I was using a microwave oven, instead of a regular oven. My family recently purchased a mini oven, cheap and small but mighty useful.

So a few days ago i set off on a new baking adventure. Step one: I bought myself a new baking tin, a smaller one, to bake a smaller cake of cause. I decided that butter was too expensive to waste. It would be wiser to bake a smaller cake and eat it all on the same day it is baked. 

I bought the "good" butter, it cost about 1 Ringgit extra. I thought, why not. 

I was then home, and ready to bake, my weighing scale out and ready. Now, to weigh the goods, and not myself. I used the good butter, the new baking tin, I de-spermed the eggs, i used the new oven, I even put a pan of water in the oven to keep the cake moist, and i used the awesome recipe Arpita Bajaj gave me.

The outcome, my BEST butter cake yet! 

The cake was moist, it came out of the pan easy, it was buttery, it had a great bite, it was cooked all the way though, and it did not smell like eggs!!!! Most importantly, it was a decent and modest size, no wastage, and it left us all wanting more, and without the "jelak" feeling.

I saved a few slices for the next day, for after all, the true test of a good butter cake is to see that it still taste good the next day, and that it does not smell like eggs when cool. My cake tasted great the next day, and smelled nothing like eggs!

Success!!! 

I'm a pro baker now! *Beams* HAHA!