The One With The Failed Banana Cake

So yesterday
In my boredom
And in need of a break
From all the reading
I've been doing
In getting ready for a major meeting
Next week
I decided to go and buy stuff to bake a cake

A carrot cake

Only thing was
When I got home after buying
The ingredients I lacked
I found that the carrots that I had
(leftovers from Sept. 4th National Day Reception)
Had all turned limp and darkened in colour

There goes my carrot cake

Then I spied the bananas that I had bought
And ransacked through the recipe books
For a banana cake recipe

ps: I love Betty Saw's books
The one I used was
Many More Kitchen Secrets from Betty Saw

Found one that I had used in the past
So I followed the recipe to the best of my abilities

Except
Instead of a square mould, I used a round one
Instead of really ripened bananas, I used not so ripe ones
Instead of a cup of squished bananas, I used 4 big ones

Here's the dumbest part:
The recipe says to bake in oven
For 25-30 minutes over a temperature of 190 Celsius
I did the temperature for 190 and set the timer for 25 minutes

Tip: to make a cake moist, lessen the time it needs to bake

30 minutes into the baking
I noticed the thing hasn't even cooked right

Something was not right
I opened the oven door
And noticed the heat wasn't even hot

Took a while
But I then realized
I had set the temperature
To Celsius as in the recipe
When, in fact,
The oven I have
Is set on Fahrenheit

So
190 Celsius
Is equivalent to
374 Fahrenheit

SIGH!

So
I had to resent the temperature
From 190 Fahrenheit to 375 Fahrenheit
And it took an hour for the cake to bake
And even then
It was a little damp
On the inside

Lesson learnt!

Next time:
Peanut Butter Banana Cake