Mistakes.

I baked a three-layer champagne cake from scratch for my Grandma’s 90th birthday, and baking the layers took two tries.  I am not good at wasting, so I wrapped my first try tightly in plastic wrap and organized the bunch in my freezer.  I want to make cake pops with this fail.  

I told my godmother one day, when I am feeling a negative feeling, I have found it gives me the tenacity to overcome the want in a task I do not want to do.  

I want to make cake pops but I do not want to navigate the trials and errors.  

I know trials and errors are not easily escapable when it’s something I’ve never done before.  But the mess amidst them is not fun to clean up when you have little to no success, and I like cleaning.  

I got the cake layers out of the freezer from October 2021 last week, and I had enough tenacity yesterday to tackle the next step waiting for me.  Dunk the cake balls.  Before I could dunk them, I had to form the dough. Before the before, I asked how do I get the balls to form.  

The secret to shapening cake balls is: After the layers and frosting are mixed together, pre-form the dough into balls.  The balls will be wonky.  Chill the wonky balls in the refrigerator for two hours, then give each another roll.  This will work the wonkiness out.  The secret worked for me. #iwillproclaimit

The white chocolate morsels melted wonderfully, and I dunked my first ball.  One, and I was done. #iknowmylimits

While I was waiting my turn for dental prophylaxis, I asked how do you dunk a cake ball.  There is such a process for cake balls, a video of how not to fail at cake pops is out there!  I watched through 9 mistakes, and it was no wonder I had so much trouble: Every claimed mistake you could make at dunking a cake ball, I made.  I am a cake ball dummy. 

https://youtu.be/SskvaH_XYgE

I drew an honest conclusion yesterday: I have intuition for creating cake balls.  

While I was melting the chocolate I thought to myself, there’s a lot of drag in this.  Behold, one of the ways not to fail cake balls is add vegetable oil to melted chocolate to make its consistency more fluid.  

Ignoring my intuition is a mistake.  

Cake balls aside, I wrote to myself one day: Acknowledging and ignoring your intuition is one of the worst mistakes you can make for yourself. 

Cake balls forefront, cleaning up the trial and errors of yesterday’s adventure was half good.  It would have been half bad if I hadn’t found the secret to forming un-wonky balls of cake.  

Knowing I have formed dough in the freezer and a secret to melting fluid chocolate, I am excited to try dunking cake balls to completion again in the near future. 

3/4/22 To completion.