29th December 1992

Today is one of my great friends birthday. Sofia is finally 18!!
Sofia is not a usual person, in fact she's quite peculiar that's why I love her so much.
She measures one meter and fifty centimeters, she is thin and her skin is quite white.
Her eyes are green/brown and bring you happiness and safety, even though the fact that when you look at her she seems a ten-years-old girl.
She's got such a powerful and tough temper, however when she's wrong she doesn't mind saying sorry.
That's the thing I envy the most of her.

I started this tradition one year ago, when it was 20th September and it was my best friend Miriam's birthday. I had been ill and I didn't feel completely recovered, but I wanted to go and be there with my people. As I'm a sensible person I decided to make her a cake, and call his boyfriend to pick it up, so I would "share" a moment with her when she blew the candles.

They loved my cake, and I was so happy that every single birthday I went to I've prepared that dessert.
It's not a gourmet or complicated dish, but I like it. I'm not a cake person, I don't like cakes, I simply taste them, one bite and that's enough for me. Too much sweet.

Sofia is the yougest of my friends of 1992. So that's my last 18 birthday cake, and even it's Christmas time and we all have eaten too much this days, I think she will like my "surprise".

I haven't stopped saying the dessert, the cake... Now I will explain how I do it.
Is very very simple, I've done it hundret times.

Ingredients:
- 3 eggs
- 300 g sugar
- 300 g flour
- cinnamon (optional)
- 100 mL oil
- 200 mL milk
- Baking powder (depending each brand you use it has different formats)
- Cocoa hazelnut cream (whatever you use to cover the cake)

Fist of all you have to break the eggs and separate yolk from white.
Then you beat the white until they form stiff peaks, after that you mix it with the sugar, which doesn't matter if it's black or white. And I add a pinch of cinnamon, as I said before, it's optional.
Now we put the yolk and continue beating.
We'll continue by pouring the oil, and when the mixture is homogeneous we'll do the same with the milk.
After that it's time to put the flour, make sure you mix it well because it's not pleasant finding flour lumps.
Finally add baking powder and put it in the oven, that must be preheated on 180ºC.
I cannot say how long it should be there, I've been taught that I should know it by the way the cake looks and by pricking the cake with a wooden stick. However, I think it should be there about forty minutes.
When it's baked I cover it with cream and decorate it with white sugar or edible luster dust.

It's no big thing, but is the only "cake" I know how to prepare.

Now I'll take Sofia's cake out of the oven, I don't want to overcook it.
Bye!