Man, if this cake turns out even halfway decent I'll have to consider it a minor miracle...
I'm supposed to beat 6 egg yolks, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, and 3/4 cup of sugar until "very light" but I dumped the sugar into the other dry ingredients
But they get mixed together in the end so maybe it doesn't matter?
Then after mixing the other dry ingredients I realized I forgot to add the cinnamon, cloves, and baking powder! Mixed it all again...
Hopefully that too, won't matter in the end
Then the egg whites! The egg whites, no matter how long I beat them just would not stiffen. No idea why: this has never happened before so I folded well-beaten (but not stiff) egg whites into the cake batter and then set it to bake as normal
I'll know in an hour after baking, cooling, and mixing up the topping if I'll be alright