The Geek Bake

The time was heading towards 2am in the morning. I was feeling bored. I had done my usual internet surfing, emails, reading and studying; for the day and practically had nothing else to to. I was not feeling sleepy because I had spent most of the afternoon sleeping. Having drunk loads of coffee after waking up did not make it easier for me to just go to bed and fall asleep. The problem was I had suddenly become very active at around 2am in the morning. Great.

Why do I not do a spot of baking I thought. I cannot remember the last time I baked because, I have never baked. I have seen several TV shows of people baking, but I suppose that does not make me an expert in baking. Also I have seen others baking in real life, the most watched person being my late mother. As a Home economics teacher, she loved baking, yes and cooking. She would bake all sorts. I never bothered with the types of cakes she baked, I just ate them. The mistake I made was sampling all those lovely cakes and not asking her to teach me how to bake.

I had seen previously some where on Facebook a 5 minute [I think] video someone had posted of a cake being made from milo, flour, eggs etc etc. That looked simple enough, and I sort of remembered how it all went, well not exactly but close enough. 2am and nothing to do, hmmmm, why do I not bake myself a cake. I quickly did a search on DuckDuckGo using the search term "milo + cake", picked out one of the results that got thrown at me, did a quick read and made my way downstairs to the kitchen. I did not bother copying the recipe down. I felt I had committed everything sufficiently to memory. Sadly after 10 minutes in the kitchen I had completely forgotten all the information regarding the recipe. Heck, I said to myself, I will make it up as I go along. That should work!

My first task was to source a mixing bowl. I could not quick find a decent mixing bowl, so I had to made do with something which was close to a mixing bowl. 

Below I present you with a series of pics which, are self explanatory of what I used in terms of ingredients and method.

So, you are probably asking, how was the end product? Truthfully.... a disaster. I have learnt from my first experience in my attempt to bake and looking forward to trying it out again.