I decided to take the Daring Baker challenge from a while ago. I'm not yet a daring baker, but starting next month I will be. I'm really excited.
Anyhow, After I saw pictures of this cake, I've been itching to make it. Finally, I couldn't stand it anymore and woke up at 1:00 am to do it.

The preparation isn't difficult, but like always, I fail to follow recipe for the cake part. Everytime, I'm always doubting the recipe and end up changing it. That's not good.... cause I'm usually wrong. Anyhow, the cake inside took me two tries to get decently right. I realized that if I'm going to rely on air to make my cakes rise, I need to bake them immediately after I've whipped the batter. I had technical difficulties with my springform cake pan.... It didn't occur to me that it would leak... -_-.... so I had to take the leaking pan out of the oven, and left the batter there for like.. half an hour. When I baked it, the air was almost gone and the cake had this gross unrisen flour-egg texture.

I've learned my lesson. Other than the cake, everything turned out upretty well. I'm pleased with the results. It's not my cake of choice for eating, but it's a nice and pretty piece I can show off.
I'm sort of new to this entire baking thing so I'll be making a lot of blunders, but stick with me. I'll get better. =D