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I was an expert bread maker but had never really done else besides bread. So, one Christmas Eve a few years ago I decided to bake a German Chocolate Cake. I had always wanted to try my hand at baking a cake and this was the perfect opportunity.

I’m American and my wife is Mexican. We were living in a very large Mexican city with Wal-Mart Super Centers and Sam’s Clubs, but the local market was much closer, so that is where we went to shop for our Christmas Eve celebration.

When I make a recipe for the first time, I usually follow the directions to the letter. The next time I’ll get even more creative. The local market didn’t have the specific kinds of chocolate the recipe called for—a combination of milk chocolate and bittersweet chocolate. I could have found them at one of the chain stores, of course, but I didn’t want to fight the traffic. I just chose two different kinds of chocolate.

Not long after I put the cake in the oven, some friends stopped by to say hello. As luck would have it, I got caught up in the conversations and left the cake in a little too long. We were at very high altitude, surrounded by snow-capped volcanoes in the city of Puebla, Mexico. Since the oven was 15 years old the oven was never as hot as the thermostat indicated. Due to the combination of these factors, the cake needed to stay in the oven longer than the recipe recommended.

The kind of milk chocolate I got at the local market didn’t have the right consistency. The icing kept falling off of the cake. The icing kept falling off the cake faster than I could put it on. I was terribly late and nothing was going right. In any second, I was expecting to hear the door bell ring. As a last resort, I shoved the cake in the freezer in the hope that the icing would stay in one place.

To my amazement the cake was perfect once it got out of the freezer. It was better than I could have ever imagined. My wife and her family will always remember that very special Christmas Eve. I always get request to make that cake again. I know it could never be the same. It is hard to top perfection, so why even try.

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