Week 9 - Orange and Olive Oil Cake

Ok - so we have gone a full seven weeks without an accident.  Today we broke that streak! I decided to make my very last recipe out of the New York Times cookbook, as it is due back next week at the library! So, last week, I made a chocolate cake so I was feeling like something vanilla.  This orange and olive oil cake sounded so different and it was described as "mediterranean". 

The recipe was strange however, in that it asked for a 1/2 cup of baking powder and a 1/4 cup of baking soda.  At the supermarket today, I bought an extra box of baking soda just in case....

I remember thinking it was ALOT of baking soda....Well, I whipped up the recipe, inhaled the orange and olive oil smell and loved it! The batter tasted great, not too baking powder strong at all....

I put the springform in the oven and started washing dishes.  Within 10 minutes or so, I started to smell burning and found that the cake had literally overflowed.  Like one of those science experiments of a volcano, absolutely hilarious....Here was the outcome!

I started yelling, Mike came running and we both had quite a good laugh! After we put the dishes into soak, we headed for Google and found the results...
The cookbook has a typo...1/2 cup baking powder is supposed to be 1/2 TEASPOON...and 1/4 baking soda is to be 1/4 TEASPOON....

According to someone else's blog, she had emailed the author....! They had the EXACT same photo...well, Mike and I were hysterical....
http://madewithatwist.com/2010/02/08/orange-and-olive-oil-cake/

Tonight is Oscar night so I probably won't make the cake the right way until Tuesday....Stay tuned!

I did remake the cake!

Here are the correct photos!