20/06/2026
I've never not used Double crown baking powder for anything I'm baking till one time, some years back.
Mine finished and i decided to get another.
I checked the guy selling baking materials in the market and he didn't have double crown. He had another and he told me to take it na odi nice.
He also said it was cheaper.
As i hear cheaper, na so the "cheap article antenna" in me, Arinze!
I had so much load too and convinced myself that i was too stressed to start looking for double crown.
I looked at the baking powder, it had "Fast action" on it and that was okay for me.
Na so i pay, carry am, waka.
Tu secons later, i don mix cake batter.
Tu secons later, i don put cake for oven.
I timed and relaxed.
Tu secons later, i perceived something burning.
"Can't be my cake bra! Kante be!"
It really was.
I opened my oven slightly and peeped.
What i saw, even the people that opened Onye nwe m, Jesu Christy's tomb, didn't see such!
Na so the cake riseeeeeee, the cake rise sotey it was pouring out from the pans and to the ground!
Cake was bubbling like those Pepper stew Bini women cook and sell at New bini market!
I shut the door immediately and started breathing in and out!
"God, what is appen to me ohhh?"
I sat and watched for another twenty minutes then i opened.
The cake no longer Arinze'd.
It was now as flat as Bobo's ass!
Flater than the initial batter sef.
Na so i shout, "Lord! You have forsaken me!"
I brought the four pans out, ran straight to the woman that sells snacks around my layout.
I begged her too give me small baking powder.
She empathized with me and brought out a mighty in battle can of double crown baking powder...way way way bigger than this.
I took the small one she gave me in a nylon and ran home.
I mixed batter again, from afresh!
I baked and they came out perfect!
Omo! Wasted materials because i allowed lesser money cloud my judgement!
I learned the harrrrrrrrrd way!
Na real "fast action" baking pawuder! 😂