Written by
Amerigo Bonasera
A cake is a combination of many fixings; spices, flour,
eggs, sugar, fat and anything the baker deems fit. Cakes come in different
flavours, shapes and sizes and are made for several reasons and occasion. It
takes a lot of time, energy and care to make one from start to finish.
The beauty and taste of a
cake depends on how much the baker has put into it, no doubt a cake worth a few
thousands shouldn’t be compared to one worth hundreds of thousands, but hey!
Ask the bakers and you’d find that it doesn’t exactly follow; a cake might be
exceptionally beautiful and expensive but have an awful taste while another
could be cheap and ugly yet make your taste buds exceptionally happy.
Most bakers hurriedly get
their mixtures into the oven and get it out before time so they concentrate on
the icing craft forgetting that the most important part of the cake lies
beneath the icing. When one gives appropriate time and attention to the
mixture, proportion of the fixings and oven time, it turns out really nice and
tasty. In trying to make a cake tasty and beautiful, one can cause a conflict
in taste by adding too many flavours and less appealing to the eyes with a
choked up design and many colours.
Less they say is more,
even in cakes my dear. It doesn’t need to have a lot going on to be worth a lot
of money.
Just like a cake,
How much time, energy and
care have you given to yourself? It’s not just about your packaging but the
whole package itself. Are you fully baked, half-baked or even burnt by the
experiences, time and people around you or you’re more concerned about your
icing craft (your packaging)?
If you were a cake put up
for sale, how much would you be worth? In a social, intellectual and academic
society where the people around you happen to be the judges of the cakes which
you have baked and dished out to them through your intellect and attitude, how
tasty would you be?
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