Now baking a cake is no big deal, but when attempts have given you comments like “it tastes good,but it doesn’t taste like  cake”..that’s when serious preparation come into the scene. My friends refuse to believe in my culinary skill (many lunches at school have I subjected them to my experiments)and my dad is too sweet to hurt me. My ma however, looks upon my kitchen experiments as if I’m playing house. So this Christmas, I refused to be taken lightly. And I began my search for that perfect recipe of chocolate cake. My frantic search was often attempted to be thwarted by my friends who gave me recipes where they felt sure nothing could go wrong. Wherein, I just needed to measure and mix and bake..well anyone can do that. I wanted to bake, really bake a rich dark soft chocolate cake that would melt in the mouth and render everyone speechless and eat back their comments!

I found many recipes with pictures that could even melt the tongue, but I just felt so very dissatisfied. I had to bake a special cake and this time I had it in me, nothing could go wrong if I could just get that perfect recipe. By Christmas eve I became desperate. Tomorrow is Christmas and tomorrow I had to keep up my promise of my perfect cake. So while shopping my friend told me a harmless way to bake a cake, where I can save my face and they can save their tummy-a ready to bake cake mix! Now that was the final straw. I just bought everything that I could imagine to go into the making of cake and left with renewed frustration.

So around 7′O clock,I started sifting the flour and kept looking at the cut & paste recipe I had made from many and felt low…..very very low. I have always wanted to cook well. I enjoy doing it. That’s when I realized what the hell, they are not expecting anything edible anyway so I might as well just enjoy playing house. And I baked a cake, by 10. I put on the icing and I was happy. Hard labor payed off well coz I was licking my fingers and I loved the taste. Tomorrow they might laugh but I just know I did well.I kept the cake in the fridge ,proudly.

I woke up at 2 to the sounds of carols and ran downstairs to have a better look at Santa. As I got near the fridge I saw someone sitting in the floor. It was my brother in search of a  midnight snack and I found much to my dismay & happiness, he had eaten much of my cake. When he said it was delicious, I was delirious with joy. So I saved a few pieces for my parents and friends and sat down with my brother munching one of the best cakes I had ever tasted. Now for those who need my recipe, here it is:

Mix flour, coco & icing sugar. Pour a mixture of chocolate chunks melted in black coffee to the powder mixture. Add an egg and condensed milk. In goes a pinch of vanilla essence, baking soda and baking powder. Add milk and then pour in maza(yes the soft drink)…stir well…and bake. For icing, just mix coco, icing sugar and condensed milk. When the cake cools, pour in the icing and keep it for setting in the fridge.Voila there you have a beautiful dark chocolaty chocolate cake. Make sure to keep away the midnight snackers!!

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