I recommend eating a slice of chocolate cake. Feeling down like a plant without water or feeling happy with a grin from ear to ear, a slice of cake awaits you. It turns a frown into a smile or adds more to to my happiness. With each bite, the flavor melts in to my mouth. As it hypnotizes me to the memories that surround it.

An echoing of Happy Birthdays surrounds you. A bright light sparkles on top of you ready to be blown out. Once it is blown out, it is time to eat. I grab the knife and with a seesaw motion, I slice through the layers of chocolate. The fudge slowly falls like lava coming out of a volcano. I take a bite. Mesmerized by the flavors that are combing. My tense shoulders drop down as I let the flavor invade me. Remembering how each birthday, a chocolate cake is at the table decorated with balloons, confetti splattered on the table cloth, and different colored bags next to it. Counting down the days, crossing them out one by one. As my birthday would soon come. The candle numbers change as each year goes by. As I get older, I understand more of what the world has to offer. Learning through different experiences and getting stronger as I go. Discovering my passions and my dislikes. But one thing stays the same, it is you. I take another bite

O Chocolate cake, O Chocolate cake, how much I adore you! Especially when I am feeling sad. While I focus on the dark clouds rather than the rainbow that comes after the storm. Arriving when I need you the most. When it is that time of the month. Where it seems that everyone is trying to get me mad or annoyed. When I open the fridge, I see you, through your clear cover on that white pearly cake stand. I take you out and I take off the cover, and the sweet chocolatey smell immediately impacts my face. I smile, knowing that soon I would be able to enjoy you. The craving for chocolate cake slowly diminishes and the monster within me starts to creep away. Chocolate cake makes everything so much better.

I remember when I tried to recreate a recipe that one time. It was awful. However, now I feel like I got the hang of it. Trying to make a delicious chocolate cake is hard, but the challenge is always fun. I take out a bowl and whisk all the ingredients together. The last step is the cacao powder. Adding too little would give it a light taste, adding too much would make the taste dense. Three-fourths of a cup seems to be right. Then a dash of salt to balance out the sweetness. I put it in the oven and I let it rise. Thirty-five minutes later, I take you out. Once it is cooled, I begin frost and decorate it. I pipe little swirls on the top and then sprinkle colorful sprinkles over it. Finished. All ready to eat!