Baking an orange olive oil cake // A touchpoint map

• De-stress with Food network before heading to work on a Saturday morning
• Get inspired by uber perky TV host
• Spend a productive morning in the office
• Buy remaining ingredients including 5 oranges though you only need two because the supermarket sells them in a bundle of 5 (on hindsight, it was a good move to get more oranges)
• Lunch
• Bake
• Initiate taste-test with the Mister and Munckin
• Critique "It's quite dry..." said the Mister
• Get into problem-solving mode
• Slather raspberry preserves as Munckin clamours for more "Mama... Mama..." 
• Use the opportunity to teach him about patience
• Friends arrive, serve minicakes. Munckin polishes off one on his own.
• Thank your lucky stars for kinder-than-thou friends  
• Smother your kid's chubby-cheeks with all the love you can muster

Recipe courtesy of Melissa d'Arabian 

Improvisations from the original recipe for mum's birthday lunch:

• 1 cup all-purpose flour, instead of 1 1/4 cups
• 1/2 cup sugar, instead of 3/4 cup sugar
• 3, instead of 2, eggs
• Juice and zest of 1 orange (about 4 tablespoons juice, 2 tablespoon zest)

A recipe to have and hold xx