descriptive essay

According to Diane Ackerman, “Taste is an intimate sense” (128). Indeed, flavors can trigger emotions, memories, and hopeful desires. Perhaps this is the reason food becomes an important part of family life. Growing up from an Italian and German background, delicious meals accompany every family event, whether large or small. My mother, the best cook in my opinion, of course, cooks often, and from scratch to ensure the utmost top quality in each bite. As a little girl, I rememeber the array of different foods but one in particular my mother made very rarely. She called it Strawberry Pretzel Cake. The flavors with in make the cake the best, according to flavor and taste.

Visually, the cake consists of three layers. The first is a brownish color, with a bumby and sharp texture. Situated above it, a white fluffy cream appears to resemble white clouds on a perfect day. Lastly, the top layer gives off a vibrant red color and its surface shines in the light. Before even delving into this temtation, one can see its complicating figure, like a piece of art work that has taken years to perfect.

Although the cake’s appearence alone can make one’s mouth water, the taste is beyond the imagination. As a bite size piece enters the craving mouth, multiple flavors take turns into seducing the taste buds. The bottom layer contains regular snack pretzles, crushed enough to deform it’s orginal shape but slightly enough to prevent a preztle powder. This mix combines with butter and sugar to make a tasty, yet stable bottom. Taste budes interpret the bottom layer with a salty and sweet taste with a crunchy texture. Next, the second layer is a combination of cream cheese whipped together with sugar and whipped cream. Once the mixture reaches the taste buds, a sweet sensation takes over completly. Not only a heavenly sweet taste, but the layer also provides a smoothe and satisfying texture. Lastly, the top layer provides a third endulging taste. It is simply made from strawberry jello and real strawberries embedded within. The taste is as vibrant as the color it reflects. The jello swishes around the mouth while the strawberries offer a sweet, natural, citrus taste. In fact, “ounce for ounce, strawberries have more Vitamin C than citrus fruit” (1). Each layer consists of a unique taste, yet together, the taste is indescribable. The salt, sugar, cream cheese, jello, and strawberries offer a unique and wonderful flavor to the popular world of cakes. Although the popularity of home baking and the role of cakes in the diet have both changed during the 20th century, cakes remain almost ubiquitous in the western world (The Food Musuem 2).