My 'Proud Mom' Moment

Yenni and her leaves!

On Sunday night, one of the girls here came up to Audrey and I in somewhat of a panic because she had to make a cake for school the next day. Her assignment was to bake a cake using some weird dried out leaves from Chile. She called it her "Experimental Cake" assignment...and I'm not even sure what class it was for.

Now, they rarely bake cakes here. Everyone pretty much buys cakes from the store because baking takes a lifetime in this altitude. But we were like...ok let's look up a cake recipe.

After gathering all the ingredients from various places, we were ready to begin. Because the leaves were dried, I knew we couldn't just through them into the batter. After I privately consulted the internet on baking "special" brownies, I got an idea!

We all worked together on it. Once the batter was finished, I was really worried about how this cake would taste. But once it was done cooking (6 years later), we tasted it and it was pretty good! On Monday, Yenni reported that her classmates LOVED the cake and all wanted to try it...and she got first place in her class! I felt so proud!

So because this cake went over so well, we all had to make 2 more cakes yesterday for further judging throughout the whole school...and I still don't understand what this is even for. But once she got the cakes to school, she learned that the judging won't commence until NEXT Wednesday, so Yenni made $5.90 selling the cake to her friends. I think we should start a business :)