The cake that changed a life
When Clementine was 5 she once visited her neighbo to borrow a package of salt. She was invited inside and followed the house owner in the kitchen, where his wife was decorating the most marvelous cake Clementine had ever seen. It was a pastel green cake with mint and chocolate flavor. With pastel colored piped cream around and on the cake and a few cherries on the top. The older woman noticed her interest but didn't said anything. She probably couldnt imagine that her cake would inflame a passion in this little girl, that would latter make her one of the best conditors of the country. That day Clementine knew one day she would own a bakery and she would make cakes as beautiful as the mint cake. She never told anybody anything and kept her dream and decision by herself. Time went on, years passed by. Clementine grew up, but she never forgot that cake. She never baked, never decorated a cake, but she used to go to the library and study recepie books there. She turned 17 when in school teachers invited her to take part in a baking contest. At first Clementine didn't want. She still wanted to hide her interest in baking from anybody. She was afraid she would not be successful and everybody would laugh at her. She was afraid that nobody would want to look at them or that her parents would be angry. But after a friend resisted Clementine agreed. She went again to the library took one of the books. Than at home she studied every step carefully and finally only cracked the first egg. She didn't knew how long she spent that day in the citchen. Her parents and siblings were not at home, the went to visit an aunt. It was when the returned at around 23 o clock in the evening that Clementine was still piping the cream on her cake with such an precision most bakers would be jealous of. Of course everybody was mind blown and amazed, but Clementine stayed as calm and unimpressed as she was. She didn't said anything. It was her secret talent and she wanted to keep it secret, but the next day turned to be the most dissapointing day in her life. She was able to transport the cake into her school, without and complications and put in on her table. The judge came into the room and started to observe the cakes he went from one table to another. Finally he stoped infront of Clementine cake. When she opened the...