Monday, 13 August 2012

Cake Boss


Cake Boss.

Relationships are like cake.  Be it tiered, creamed or sponge.  They come in an assortment of flavours to cater or suite different palates.  Some love chocolate and some like vanilla. I dabbled in household management in High School, better known as Home Economics and I was taught the importance of the right ingredients and most importantly the right quantities. “You have to measure correctly in order to get the best results” I was taught.

The top five baking ingredients for making a cake are flour, sugar, eggs, butter, leaveners (something that helps a baked item to rise). These are necessary to ensure that your cake is not a complete flop. I’ve been baking cakes for a long time now my favourite being death by chocolate of course *licks lips*, and I can tell you I have left out some of these ingredients and that has resulted in disaster more than once. So I decided to use what little culinary skills I possess to help myself and those I know to rival Buddy Valastro the acclaimed Cake Boss and create a masterpiece that put his to shame.

Like any good recipe we require ingredients, hope you have a pen and paper ready, LET’S BAKE!             

We will need the following:

1.      Flour_ Communication

2.      Sugar_ Respect

3.      Eggs_ Reciprocity

4.      Butter_ Realistic expectations

5.      Baking Powder_  Intimacy

The flour represents communication which is a vital component in any healthy relationship because it provides the structure and body like in a cake. Communication forms the basis of any good structure and without it the other ingredients will be of no use because an unstable structure will collapse eventually.  A solid foundation is means being able to discuss, in a calm tone, from the beginning the things you both want and don’t want and understanding each other without blowing up in each other’s faces.

The sugar is a sweetener which in baking maintains a complex role in baked goods because it contributes texture. This represents respect which is the core of any good relationship. A man and woman who have respect for themselves will respect each other. Respect is indicated in behaviour, how a person treats or rather handle themselves and secondly in speech, that can be seen in the way a person speaks to you or most importantly what they say about you when you are not around.

The eggs acts as the binding agents in any recipe, in other words they hold all the ingredients together and this is reciprocity. Reciprocity or cooperation in a healthy romantic relationship means give and take. This means a partnership based on compromise, letting the other partner win from time to time if that means making the other person happy. This entails unselfishness and not always wanting to be right but submitting to making someone’s happiness a priority. It’s better to lose an argument than to lose someone to one.

Oh, butter! In baking butter adds flavour and can help keep foods fresher for longer this is true with realistic expectations.  Realistic expectations means understanding you are both imperfect and that things will not always be sunshine and roses. This means being open and honest with each other, laying all your cards on the table so to say about the things you do expect and NO ladies men cannot read minds. If you are expecting something darling breathe and let it out.

Last but not least my favourite, baking powder which you guessed right is INTIMACY….*sweats*  Baking Powder like any good dose of intimacy reacts with the other ingredients and produces bubbles that cause the mixture to RISE *sweatsprofusely*.    They say intimacy is not about sex but it is being comfortable enough with each to share each other. Well we all know we can only truly share each other in the nude, the rest don’t count. So Ms_Curvy means trusting each other and baring it all with no reservations, except protection of course lol.

Bon Appetit

Compliments to the chef..

Ms_Curvy  


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