Celebrating Cake!

It’s a haunting question in my mind too. Ideally there’s a lot of things that can embark or mark the beginning of a celebration. But be it a birth, marriage, graduation or congratulation, a cake is always the star of the evening. I pondered upon this for a lot of time and wondered just this ; is it traditional and old fashioned or are there other reasons. And guess what?? I found too many answers. But the best ones were too simple to be true.

Cakes or Gateaux or Pastries are foods of the heavens. They are cravings and soul foods. I pity people who cannot connect yet alone like cake for one reason. They do not know how magical it is. Seriously even when I think of cake, I get this broad smile on my face and I know its something I would prefer to any gift in the world. Not that it’s the case with everyone. For me a cake is the epitome of making someone feel special. Think about it. When you buy a cake or gift someone a cake or even cut a cake of your own, you get this feeling of dominance and happiness. You know that what ever the outcome, that cake will bring a smile. I haven’t heard of a cake that’s ever depressed someone actually. I know of a lot of cakes that have got people out of depression though.

Celebration. Of any kind. You have cake, you are celebrating. Even in solitude if you have cake. You are celebrating an unending feeling of contentment and happiness. Cakes symbolize occasions. They are cut to either mark the beginning of a celebration or the end. That’s why the occasions where a cake isn’t cut are incomplete. I know of a time when an uncle of mine decided not to bring a cake for my aunt’s birthday because he felt it was a “waste” (yea whatever!!). when he said that to me I felt like someone had ripped me apart. How could you deprive someone of their celebration cake?? Its mortal sin! We immediately went to the nearest department store and picked up a tin cake and a few “smarties” and strewed them all over the cake and pinned candles everywhere. My aunt saw that and took us to an “all-you-can-eat” pizza buffet at Ponderosa that night. See the perks it has?

Finally a cake is your first flash in the head to a special memory. Think of any memory that makes you feel so happy that you could dance and a cake will be there somewhere at those times. You will always have a moment in life where the cake was what gave that “oomph” factor to the entire celebration. My dad had send my mom a pink heart shaped cake with a ring right on the centre on their 15^th Valentines. My brother’s first tooth break. My first date at the most perfect place.

I adore, respect and applaud any and everybody who can make a good cake for someone. It is one of the most heart filled gifts you could give someone. And it is definitely the reason you make someone feel the star of the evening.

To all you cake lovers…. Glutton away!!!