Ben Anderson's Blog - Posts Tagged "cooking"

Today I was making a cake for my girlfriend Holly. It was meant to be a quadruple chocolate cake, I believe the recipe is Nigella Lawson's.

However I made some rather fatal errors; basically I missed out two ingredients from the cake and added one to the sauce by mistake.

So instead of getting a chocolate cake with coco sauce and chocolate chips we ended up with a sponge cake with a chocolate core and chocolate sauce on top. Personally I think it is far better this way.

But it reminds me of the way I wrote my first book; I basically came at it with a 'recipe' in my head and, completely by accident, new bits got added and old bits were forgotten during the process of writing. At the end the finished product was hardly comparable with my initial idea save for a few character names. But I loved it more as it seemed to have grown from me rather than having been produced.

I think it is something that can be applied to many things; not just cooking and writing though. - Have an idea in your head, build on it like a foundation. Then let your imagination free and see what the result tastes like!