50 Question 5 Introduction: My interest - hobby - few years back - Form 2. I - proud - culinary skills - some people - agree – cooking. Paragraph 1: Last month - grandfather's seventy-fifth birthday. A day – celebration - bake - cake. Though I - much experience - confident - successfully. Paragraph 2: "I will succeed in baking a cake if I follow a recipe exactly,"- I - myself. I - ingredients - accurately - right amounts - used. After - cake - baked – oven - beautiful cake. To - beautify - I other decorations. Paragraph 3: As - guests - arriving - dinner. After the meal - dessert - cake - brought out. Mother - made – single-handedly. Many - guests - fine-looking cake. One - expressed - appearance - sale - bakery. Paragraph 4: After - "Happy Birthday" - cut - cake. I - guests. When - eating - strange - funny expressions - faces. Since - slice -tasted it. I - astonished - realise -tasted salty! I - mistakenly - salt - sugar - cake. Some - children - laughed - me. Though - adults - silly mistake. I - embarrassed - entire life! I - ashamed - open up - swallow me. Conclusion: Luckily - bakery - far away ready-made birthday cake. I - pray - make - same mistake - future - going through - again. Full Essay My interest in this hobby started a few years back, when I was in Form 2. I have always been proud of my culinary skills since then, though some people may not agree that I am good at cooking
51 Last month, we celebrated my grandfather's seventy-fifth birthday. A day before the celebration, I volunteered to bake a cake. Though I do not have much experience, I was still confident of making one successfully. "I will succeed in baking a cake if I follow a recipe exactly," I thought to myself. I made sure that the ingredients were accurately weighed and the right amounts were used. After the cake had been baked in an oven, I even iced it to make it a beautiful cake. To further beautify it, I added many other decorations. As the guests started arriving at my house, we served dinner. After the meal, it was time for dessert and thus the cake was brought out. Mother announced that I made the cake singlehandedly. Many of the guests complimented me on making such a fine-looking cake. One guest expressed that its appearance could be compared to those on sale in a bakery. After everyone had sung "Happy Birthday" to grandfather, he cut the cake. I distributed the cake to the guests. When they began eating the cake, I saw strange and funny expressions on their faces. Since I had no idea what was going on, I took a slice of cake and tasted it. I was astonished to realise that it actually tasted salty! I had mistakenly used salt instead of sugar to bake the cake. Some of the children present laughed at me. Though most of the adults comforted me, I felt bad about my silly mistake. I had never been so embarrassed in my entire life! I was so ashamed that I wished the floor would open up and swallow me. Luckily, there was a bakery not far away and father went out to purchase a ready-made birthday cake. I could only pray that I would not make the same mistake in future and avoid going through the embarrassing experience again.