The girl tries to learn how to make her mother’s chocolate cake from her auntie. At first, she makes a mess of the kitchen. In her free time, she keeps making a mess of her auntie’s kitchen, trying relentlessly to get it right, but to no avail. By high school, she gets the batter right, but the rest is still wrong, specifically the icing. Eventually, the auntie tells her that she should pay for her own ingredients now, that she can no longer supervise. She writes the chocolate cake recipe on a card and gives it to the girl to work with on her own. After graduating from college, the girl still hasn’t gotten it right, though it’s at least decent now, and she also has her own bakery where she makes other things. She tries again, her second attempt of the year, and nails the batter successfully. From the living room, her girlfriend asks why she keeps trying to make it if she keeps failing. As she makes it, however, the girl is briefly drawn into a childhood memory. Focused, the girl slides her cake pans into her oven and watches television with her girlfriend until its done. She falls asleep, and when she wakes up, the apartment is filled with the smell of it, a smell so strong that it brings her back, fully immersing her in a childhood memory. Her girlfriend asks what’s going on. The girl says that she finally nailed it. Quickly, she takes the cake out of the oven, ices it with buttercream, and packs it up. She takes it over to her auntie’s house, whose reluctant at first, but when she finally tastes it, she says it was done. Her auntie is proud of her and says that she needed to eventually figure it out on her own in order for it to count. Finally, the auntie pulls out a recipe box that the girl’s mother used to own and gives it to the girl, telling her she’s ready. She recommends the pineapple upside down cake.