Can You Have Your Cake and Eat it Too?

Everybody loves cake, especially me. And it isn’t just the finished product that I enjoy. Who doesn’t stick their finger in the batter while you’re mixing everything up? Or who doesn’t like to lick the beaters, bowl, or spoon? If cake is the steady relationship and batter are the fun hookups, can you eat the batter and have cake too?

Eventually most people want to head straight for the cake. They’re aware of the risks that the raw eggs in batter represent and are no longer interested in the danger. This is why you are given a piece of cake at weddings, and not a bowl full of batter. Cake, if treated carefully, wrapped up so that it doesn’t dry out, can be great for long periods of time. There is always a chance that eventually it goes bad, but you’re not dealing with an ingredient known to make people sick.

Batter is by far more exciting. You have the risk of getting sick from the eggs and it just tastes better. How much batter can you eat without getting sick though? How many fun or random hookups can you enjoy before the batter starts to taste bitter?

Can you ever have the batter and the cake? Is there a chance that while testing out the batter, you find a person you want to make cake with? Deep down, I think this is what most girls are hoping happens. Girls tend to be more emotionally involved in any kind of relationship than a guy. Are the majority of girls ready to just dip their finger into the batter now and again without actually eating the cake? I actually enjoy both, but I recognize in myself that I have a hard time not wanting the cake too.

Boys my age are designed to only eat batter, where as girls are not. They are perfectly happy licking the bowl and never wanting or needing a piece of cake. Why? Because they don’t overanalyze life, much less relationships.

And even if you know the boys only thinks it is batter and eventually you are looking for cake, is it wrong to enjoy the batter? Knowing that you will maybe end up with hurt feelings, is the batter worth the risk? Or if you are the one who like the batter but not the cake, is it wrong to take the batter someone offers you even if you know they wanted to make cake out of it?

Someday Id like to have the cake, but in the meantime, a spoonful of batter never hurt anyone J