it's all upside down

thanks to ang and her hawt pineapple upside down cake recipe, today i am enjoying a nice warm piece of heaven.

no kidding, it took days to make the thing. why? well, first of all, i didn't realise i needed cake flour. so friday morning when i went to make it, before work, i didn't get very far. i'd looked up replacement options online, so when i went to tesco, i had two options (i've learned this is important). who knew that cake flour wouldn't exist here? i was sure it was probably just known as something else, and that i could somehow figure it out. when i asked women who i thought would be cooking types, they were like: oh, that's plain flour. and one said: that's self-raising flour (which i didn't believe, but bought anyway). i couldn't find any cornstarch, which is needed in making regular flour into cake flour, so i thought i'd check out dunnes.

cornstarch is called corn flour here, and dunnes had some.

the cake is made, and despite being crooked (i think our oven cooks stuff at an angle) it tastes delicious. yahoo!