Y=Yellow Cake

• 1 cup butter: I remember mashing and mushing up butter in a bowl to help my mom bake and cook. I wasn't very patient so I never waited for the butter to melt completely, if it was supposed to. I remember adding in the butter to the other cake ingredients and slowly sturring it in until the dough was too thick for me to stir.
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar:  Sugar. Sweet, and slightly cold to the touch. I remember when I was younger I used to sneak into the kitchen when I thought no one was looking and steal a spoonful of sugar. It was sweet (of course) and had a grainy texture that slowly went away as it began to melt in my mouth.
• 8 egg yolks: I remember when I cracked my first egg. I was nervous because I was afraid that I'd get the goo of the egg everywhere, and that my mom would be mad at me if I messed it up. I eventually began cracking the egg; It took a few tries to break it open, since I was cracking in gingerly. Eventually, though, I finally craced the egg and was able to dump it into the mixing boul without making a mess.
• 3/4 cup milk: Cold, creamy. Slides down smooth on a hot day. Chocolate milk was my favorite drink when I was younger. I remember how every morning I'd wake up and eat a bowl of cereal with some ice cold milk.
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract: I used too and still do love vanilla extract. I remember I was baking cookies with my friend and we needed to add vanilla extract. We both wondered what  it tasted like so we both tried a little and it tasted really strong, but kinda good.
• 2 cups cake flour: When I was younger I thought flour must taste good because it looked like powder sugar and was soft to the touch. One day I decided to try it and I shoved a spoonful of it in my mouth. It was discusting. The taste was hard toget out of my mouth.
• 2 teaspoons baking powder: When I was little my mom used to babysit the neighbors kids. One day, we were baking (I don't remember what), and the boy my mom was babysitting asked what baking powder tasted like. My mom said it tasted bad, but he asked if he could try it. My mom told him he could but that she warned him. He took a spoon and put some in his mouth. His lips then kind of puckered and he spit it out in the sink.
• 1/2 teaspoon salt: I used to love salty snacks. When I ate pretzels, I would sort them from least salty to saltiest, and then eat the least salty first so that I would have the saltiest for last.