Baking surprises

To my kids: Don't all rush home tonight, but I just pulled out of the oven some cunape. I only made a small batch to try out the recipe I found on the web (The truth is I had no idea how much cheese I needed - much more than I had imagined!) But they turned out! Thanks mostly to Andy for the yucca flour. So when you do come home, I 'll be ready to whip these up.
I also baked a cake that we tried at Mom's house last week. Strawberry marshmallow! Mom always has unique and tasty foods and this new recipe seemed easy so I tried it. The interesting thing about this cake is that you put the marshmallows on the bottom of the pan, then the cake mix (made from scratch) and finally the strawberries on top. In the process of cooking the marshmallows float to the top and the strawberries sink to the bottom. I opened the oven door half way through and sure enough, the marshmallows were neatly in rows on top exactly as I had placed them on the bottom. An interesting quirk. So you can make this cake for guests knowing that if the conversation lags, you'll have something to ponder - just what makes the cake turn upside down in the process of cooking?
This cake is kind of like those puzzling moments in our lives, I guess (here comes my philosophical part - sigh, sigh) Sometimes you try to do things, you follow the directions, and things just don't turn out as expected. Then we are surprised, but the questions arises. Is it okay? Well, this cake is certainly okay. And I guess we need to be ready to look at situations from differing perspectives. I'm just glad not all of life is this way, that there are certain recipes that work just like we'd hope.