Process Essay

Baking Dessert: Cake in Speed of light
Andrea Lee
Ms. Johnson
Writing C
7/November/2006
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Tonight is very special dinner with Catty’s boss’s family. If tonight’s dinner works out successful, then the chance of getting promoted will increase. The time is near, and she is ready to show off her cooking skills. Oops! She forgot to buy a dessert, most important course of all meals! She doesn’t have time to buy fancy-dandy cake! What can she do? Ah ha! Bake a fancy-dandy cake in speed of light! But with what, Premix!
Gathering materials and equipments is the first step Catty needs to do. First of all, she digs and searches through her kitchen and collect bag of pre-mix of any flavor, one can of whip frosting, two large and fresh eggs, three forth cup of drinkable water, half cup of vegetable oil (If possible get olive oil, it taste better!), one pan (Big enough to put your whole head in), one bowl (Little bigger than the size of pan), oil for covering pan, one mixer, knife, fruits (Any fruits but PLEASE no durians), and most important oven!
Now Catty is ready to roll. Before anything else, the most important thing washing hands with soap. (Eating the cake that has trillion germs is gross and family will get sick after dinner). She preheats her oven to one hundred-eighty Fahrenheit and makes sure there is nothing inside (Hope her dog is not sleeping in the oven). She puts one bag of premix, two large eggs (Make sure the egg shells doesn’t go in! Eating cake that with full of egg shells is cruel!), half cup of oil, and three forth cup of water in the bowl at the same time. Then, very gently she mixes them with mixer. If she doesn’t mix them gently, she will have no cake left to bake. Instead of baking, she will have to clean up her kitchen. (She kept mixing it until she doesn’t see any big chunks of mix). Eating big chunk of mix is no fun. After mixing gooey-muggy batter, she covers thin layer of oil on the pan. (If she doesn’t put enough oil on the pan, she will have to serve cake in the pan). Catty pours everything in the oiled pan. Then, she carefully putts the pan in the hot oven with her mittens on. (Mittens are extremely important if you want to keep your hands alive after baking). She has done all the brutal, crucial steps. She just needs to chillax (chill & relax), not forgetting her cake for next 10 minutes. So she gets up, goes to her cell phone, and calls her friends. Like every woman in this world likes to do, they chatted for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, she take out the pan with the mittens and pokes knife through the edge of the cake (not anything else but cake), to check if it’s ready to be decorated. If she sees nasty- icky batter at the end of the knife, then she will put the pan inside the oven, but this time, it is clean! She turns off the oven and pulls out the pan from oven with her mittens (It’s not baseball mittens!). She leaves her cake on the counter and waits the cake to cool down. Catty is ready for some fun!
Catty uses whip frosting and fruits to decorate her cake. Decorating cake is easier than giving a bath to her dog. She just needs to wrap the whole cake with frosting. She doesn’t need any special skills to do this. All she did was she throw some frostings at cake and rub it with the knife all the way around (Hope the knife is washed so you won’t have gooey-nasty batter everywhere in the frosting). After the cake is covered like a face of snow man, she tops eyes, nose, and mouth with the fruits (Too much fruits won’t look like a cake). After the decorating, Catty is ready to show her masterpiece to the family. After satisfying full course meal, boss’s family was happy. So far they were satisfied and happy of what they have eaten, but not yet. They still have room to eat last course of the meal, dessert. When they saw Catty’s masterpiece they were actually surprised. When they softly placed the cake on the mouth, they were ……. What’s next? Is Catty’s desert successful or not? How about you find out? Just give it a try!