Cake Pathos
It's no secret that I enjoy cooking, and deep down I like to think that I'm pretty good at it. So why am I completely incapable of baking a proper cake? I try and I try, but every time the product comes out of the oven dense a brick, and crumbles to nothingness as I try to ice it, (tonight being no exception). What am I doing wrong? Am I folding in my egg whites improperly? Am I messing up this ridiculous dry-wet-dry-wet-dry mixing protocol? Are all of my kitchen's measuring devices horribly miscalibrated? Or do I just... suck?
The thing is, I don't even like cake that much. Generally speaking, they're too sweet and over-iced and are just keeping butter, flour and sugar from their One True Destiny. But, I set a goal for myself a while back: my grandmother used to make this three-layered chocolate cake that would make your head explode with deliciousness, and if I could make a cake that was just one tenth as good, I think I could hang up my apron and call my career as a pâtissier a success. But after tonight's disaster, I'm starting to think that I just don't have the skills. I guess my friends will have to settle for Hostess cupcakes on their birthdays.