I'm going to make an almond cake for dessert.

我打算做一份杏仁饼当做甜点。

Okay, I need to make a fancy chocolate almond cake as fast as humanly possible.

好，我想以人类的最快速度做个漂亮的巧克力杏仁蛋糕。

I really want to make him this...fancy chocolate almond cake for his birthday.

我真的好想给他做个......高档的巧克力杏仁蛋糕来庆祝生日。

I need to make him something homemade. It doesn't have to be fancy chocolate almond cake.

我要亲手给他做些什么。不需要是很高档的巧克力杏仁蛋糕。

Lo and behold, my memories of my mother's dishes suddenly fitted in with the new exactness and I could duplicate her secret recipes, her heart-melting egg croquettes, her chicken in aspic, her potato puffs, her white almond cake.

你瞧，我对我母亲菜肴的记忆突然与新的精确性相吻合， 我可以复制她的秘方， 她的心融化的鸡蛋炸丸子， 她的肉冻鸡肉， 她的土豆泡芙， 她的白杏仁蛋糕。