My husband and I had only been married a very short time when I decided to bake him a yellow cake with mocha icing. Let me state that I knew NOTHING about cooking or baking anything. But, hey, all you had to do was read the instructions very carefully, right? I baked the yellow cake and it looked o.k. I then prepared the mocha icing and carefully put it on the cake. I thought it looked a little strange, but I had read the instructions so what could go wrong. That night I presented my cake to my new husband and he took it with slightly raised eyebrows, took a bite and slowly chewed. He looked at me and said, "honey, when the instructions said add coffee, they meant the liquid kind, not grounds". Fifty-six years and many cakes later, I still think the instructions should have been more explicit.

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