You gotta do the cooking by the book!

[Rye]

Cooking by the book is wrong. You should get ideas on how to make things from cookbooks, but real cooking is done by taste testing and adjusting how much of what ingredient is used by taste and the need of the food.

But... The cake could end up crazy.

Especially if it's a messy recipe.

Thanks a ton guys! I'll look around online and in stores and stuff. I know that real cooking is done by invention, but I've never really baked much before, even though I'm like, 17 (tomorrow), besides some from-the-box cupcakes with my Mom. So I need to take baby steps. xD