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A few years ago I made a cake for the first time in my life. I was already an expert bread maker, but I had never baked a cake. The idea came to me on Christmas Eve, early that day. My wife and I were cooking for six people that night. I had an interesting recipe for German Chocolate Cake. The recipe looked easy. Since I live in good sized city with a Wal-Mart Super Center and Costcos within five minutes of my house, I knew that any ingredient needed could be easily found. But for this recipe, I decided to try the local market. When I make a recipe for the first time, I usually follow the directions to the letter. The next time I’ll get even more creative. The local market didn’t have the specific kinds of chocolate the recipe called for—a combination of milk chocolate and bittersweet chocolate. I knew they would have been easily found at the mega superstores, but I didn’t want to fight traffic getting there. Instead I trusted my intuition and chose two different kinds of chocolate. Not long after I put the cake in the oven, some friends stopped by to say hello. As luck would have it, I got caught up in the conversations and left the cake in a little too long. The snow capped mountains of Puebla, Mexico were right outside the front door. The oven was rickety thing that had seen better days and the thermostat was probably not working correctly. Due to all of these factors the cake needed to stay in the oven longer that the recipe indicated. The milk chocolate I used was too runny. I couldn’t get the icing to stay on the cake. Althought, it tasted great it would not stay on the cake. I was running late, asking myself out loud why I had to do this today, of all days. The guests were arriving. As a last resort, I shoved the cake in the freezer in the hope that the icing would stay in one place. When I took the cake out of the freezer, it was perfect. I could not have planned a better tasting cake. It was a special evening that I will never forget. They always ask me to make the cake again, but I haven’t yet. I know it could never be the same. I guess its better to leave well enough alone.
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