A Great Cook is Made

By: Rachael Lemaire

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.

The first time I make a recipe I usually follow the directions to the letter. Only after making it a few times do I get more creative. 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.

Some of my friends stopped by to say hi, right after I put the cake in the oven. As luck would have it, I got caught up in the conversations and left the cake in a little too long. We were in high elevations surrounded by the snow capped mountains of Puebla, Mexico. Since the oven was 15 years old the oven was never as hot as the thermostat indicated. Due to all of these factors the cake needed to stay in the oven longer that the recipe indicated.

The milk chocolate that I bought did not have the right consistency. I couldn’t get the icing to stay on the cake. Althought, it tasted great it would not stay on the cake. I was terribly late and nothing was going right. In any second, I was expecting to hear the door bell ring. As a final ditch attempt I put the cake in the freezer and hoped for the best.

When I took the cake out of the freezer, it was perfect. I could not have planned a better tasting cake. My wife and her family will always remember that very special Christmas Eve. They always ask me to make the cake again, but I haven’t yet. It would be tough to pull it off again. As long as I leave it that way, none of us will ever forget the German Chocolate Cake that almost wasn’t.

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