Firstly, she shows us how to cream butter and sugar. And commits sins so horrific it physically hurts. She puts the butter in the bowl and begins to whip it by itself, which confused me but seemed reasonable. Then she, after beating the ever loving shit out of the butter, add two tablespoons of sugar, proceeds to beat the everloving shit out of it before adding the next two tablespoons of sugar. Rinse and repeat until all the sugar is mixed in. At this point im looking like she's kicked a puppy in front of me. Then she cracks three eggs into a separate bowl and pours one into the fucked up butter and sugar mix. Beats it, adds the next egg, so on and so forth. THREE EGGS. TO 150G BUTTER AND 150G SUGAR (she also had 150g flour, which also hurt me inside) the eggs - reasonable i might add - split from the rest of the mix. She then sifts in 2 tablespoons of flour at a time, not adding any raising agent of any kind, folds it in. This is the kindest part of the recipe. She then tells us about the 'drop test', repeatedly calls the batter dough (it looks like a dough at this point anyway) and proceeds to lift a chunk of the batter on the spoon and tip it into the bowl. After clinging to the spoon for about a whole ass fucking minute, it plunks into the bowl. She puts it into cake pans, cooks them, brings them out of the oven. AND THEN IMMEDIATELY PULLS THEM OUT OF THE PANS?? DOESNT LET THEM REST IN THE PAN??? She almost breaks the cake-brick in half as she tries to show it to us before putting them onto a cooling rack, making a comment about how the cakes are sinking 'slightly'. The sink-hole is almost deeper than the cake. By the end of this i am about 2 minutes from a mental breakdown, and have a new understanding of what people mean when they 'can't look away from a horrific scene. I shit you not it felt like a piece of my soul was dying.
