Baking Lessons

A day before the Christmas night i planned to bake my favorite choco lava cake and believe me my entire house was smelling chocolate. All ingredients were ready, and i took a step ahead by clicking every step during the cake preparation in order to blog it. And i have all the pics which if put together can easily give you an impression of a beautiful cake preparation experience.

But the truth is...my recipe failed...miserably. The chocolate inside was not running as it should have and i baked the entire thing into a lump which i cant even call a cake. * sob * The only good thing was that i had not baked the entire batter at once and still had more than half of it left. This is when mom came to my rescue. She said...at least make something edible like a chocolate sponge cake ...add baking soda (which they never mentioned in any of the tutorial videos...may be because it was too obvious :P :D ) And...tada...yummy and moist chocolate sponge cakes are ready.

I was happy and decided to give it a twist by adding molten chocolate with raisins and nuts between two cakes and on top as u can see...and of-course topping with strawberries and kiwi completed the cake.

So...you may wonder what baking lessons am I giving you from this normal story of failure and backup. Well...you see, i had all the ingredients, all the apparatus but still i failed. The one who rescued me was my mom. But that happened only because i did not hide anything from her. Your recipe of love and success in your life may be on the verge of a complete mess while you may not be aware but parents are such selfless beings ... they will never let you break down. Realize this and try loving them selflessly as well. From this Christmas lesson...I give myself this wonderful gift for new year and so can you. :D

Happy New Year folks. :D