To Market, To Market, To Make Me A Cake!

Today I decided I must bake something or I WILL DIE. Seriously, it has been a month without having baked a single thing. So I checked with Bryan if I could steal some Coca Cola for a Coke cake and he was like, "Sure, I'll exchange Coke for cake". So it was settled. I set out for Willy's supermarket with my backpack and a loooong list of things to buy. Flour, eggs, cocoa powder, vanilla sugar...the works!
Then I get to the bus stop after spending 229SEK (SGD$46), with close to 7Kg in my backpack worth of goods only to realise that the bus was not coming for 58mins. That means I'll pass the 1.5 hour mark for how long the bus ticket I got for my ride to town validity period and will have to spend another 12SEK (SGD$2.4) for a 15 min bus ride. So I decided to walk. I began walking at 12:07pm, I got home at 1:43pm. I kid you not. It didn't seem to far because the weather was cool and I didn't realise that my hands were actually numb from the cold until I had to open my door.
By the time I got home I was more hungry than tired. So I looked at my fridge and decided that my mushrooms had to go as they've been in there too long and the amount of milk I had left was way too little to have cereal with. Looks like I'm having Creamy mushroom pasta for lunch then.

I threw in one cup of milk, half a cup of water, 2 sliced button mushrooms, a knob of butter, and salt and paprika to taste into a pan and put it on medium heat. Once it started to boil I turned the heat down and kept stirring to reduce it without burning the bottom. When it was all lovely and creamy, I poured it onto a plate, put on 2 slices of Gouda cheese and threw it into the oven to melt the cheese. This is certainly something I'm gonna be making in the near future. Shiokedelic to the max!

But that's not all I made, remember the Coke Cake? Here's where I got the recipe. It's the same one I used to make back in Singapore. You can't taste the coke at all, but usually one person out of the entire group will say they can taste it *shrug*. I just love it because it is MOIST and RICH and CHOCOLATY!
It was a bit strange making it in a not-so-well equipped kitchen and using 'dl' cups instead of 'ml' cups and weighing scales but with the help of some "aggaration" it turned out alright. And the best part is, I have no more cake left, every last bit was gone. Yay! I don't have to feel guilty about finishing left over cake in the fridge!