Eh, You Fat Already!

Bloody fool. How are you supposed to react when someone says that to you (assuming you are fat)? Smile? Show black face? Back in the good old days, I would have given him my killer stare which could potentially make flowers wilt.

But I'm older, milder and wiser. In fact I didn't even flinch. So I smiled. Besides, he's my client, and I made a mental note to increase his fees by 15%.

I have been in situations like this in the not too distant past. I don't know how they could do this. Point blank. Kapow! Those words still vibrate my eardrums, like it was only yesterday when they hit the gong.

1. Girl! You fat already.

2. Eh, you put up (sic) weight.

3. My dear, you have grown big and beautiful (the beautiful did not help one bit).
4. You have put on quite a lot of weight (Chinese New Year 2013 I still remember. Cheh!)

When I was born, I was a puny 6 pounder, a baby that did not do well during feeding. But somewhere along the line, genetics kicked in. My fat genes started expressing themselves. And they meant business.

Relatives would make remarks that hurt me a great deal. "What did your grandma feed you?" was one of the zingers. Haiz..... 

Anyway, here I am.  Back to square one after all that dieting and low carbing. Who cares right?

So. I baked these for giveaways. Share the fats so to speak.

All for them. None for me. Hah!

They smelled so damn good in the oven. Resist...resist....but cannot......

So. I baked some more the next day.

One for me and one for a lady in the Uptown neighborhood. By the time these were baked and cooled, it was evening. No natural light for better shots. So these will do.

I had two slices. The rest I stashed in the freezer.

What were they?

Banana Chocolate Chip Cake
Recipe source : Phong Hong

Ingredients :
- 250g self-raising flour, sifted
- 150g sugar
- 250g butter
- 250g sour cream
- 2 eggs
- 4 ripe bananas, mashed
- 1 cup chocolate chips (tossed in a tablespoon of flour) and extra for topping

Method :
1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Add vanilla and eggs, one at a time and continue to cream until well mixed.
3. Using a spatula, fold in the mashed bananas.
4. Then add flour (in 3 additions) and sour cream (in two additions) alternately. I added flour first, fold, then add the sour cream, fold, add flour, fold, add sour cream, fold and lastly the remaining flour and fold. Sorry for being repetitive.
5. Then fold in the chocolate chips.
6. Pour batter into baking pan or in my case, two disposable loaf pans.
7. Scatter extra chocolate chips on top.
8. Bake in preheated oven at 160C for 50 minutes or until skewer inserted into center of the cake comes out clean.

Note : This cake is very moist and rich. Feel free to reduce the sour cream by half.