The Great 9-Egg Improvisation Cake

The Great 9-Egg Improvisation Cake (a.k.a. The Cake That Nearly Devoured Us Before We Devoured It) Sometimes you don’t follow a recipe—you become the recipe. This cake was born out of pure improvisation, a heroic raid of the kitchen cupboards, and the kind of wild creativity usually reserved for jazz solos and toddlers with crayons. I didn’t plan it. I didn’t measure it. I just knew one thing: nine eggs were going in. Yes, nine. That’s not a typo. That’s what we call “baking with conviction.” And the result? A glorious, round, towering cake so decadent it could probably file its own taxes as a luxury item. Step 1: The Cake Base Think of this as a “classic cake, but on performance-enhancing eggs.” Ingredients (Base): 9 eggs (because apparently I live in abundance) Sugar (enough to make dentists twitch) Flour (the glue of dreams) A little baking powder (because we like things that rise—like hope) Baking: Mix like you mean it, pour into a round tin, and bake at 190°C until it smells ...