Today is Pliny's mum's birthday. Pliny is busy making a Chocolate Cake for her mum. The Chocolate Cake has passed the first hurdle, which is Pliny's ad hoc throwing together of ingredients. The Cake is out of the oven, cooling down. As usual Pliny has failed to do the thing which prevents a Chocolate Cake from cracking on the top. If she knew what the thing was, she would do it.
She knows however, how to hide a crack, from long practice. She fills the crack with extra Chocolate Icing. In all the years that Pliny has been making crack-topped Chocolate Cakes, no one has ever complained about this.
Except for one time....... The crack was so deep that when she cut the cake in half in order to fill it with whipped cream and jam, the top half broke irreversibly into two separate pieces, and though Pliny stuck the two pieces together as best she could, the iced cake suffered from slippage and looked, as everyone must have noted, like a jaunty Chocolate Beret.
That will not happen today. The cracks are passable.
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