I’ve made my traditional B-day cake last week. Everyone was polite and said that it tasted good, but I was not pleased with it. I was using my new mixer and got a bit loosey-goosey with the egg white foam which made the cake texture too dense. Also I used unsweetened chocolate for icing. Next time I should use unsweetened chocolate for the cake but semi sweet for the icing.

When I was planning my b-day I found another cake recipe but could not decide whether to make it (very risky) or the traditional one (which would not have been risky if I was more careful). I ended up buying ingredients for both and then only made the one.

This week I thought about the ingredients that were still in my fridge and decided to make the second cake, just to see how it would turn out. I am very glad I did, because it turned out to be the best cake I ever made. Apart from the fact that I made less than a dozen cakes in the whole course of my existence, this is impressive because I didn’t even get around to doing the icing and it was still amazing.