Cake Analogy Again

I was in a meeting today when I described a process using a cake analogy, again, and most of my colleagues looked at me in askance. I think I should try using other analogies other than a cake analogy.

The thing is though I like cake and I think most people have eaten cake, even if they don’t like them as much as I do. However not many people know how to make them, so my analogy would not be easily understood, I guess. I can use simpler analogy like common everyday things but that is as useful as describing the real thing/process itself. An analogy should try to explain or draw similarities so that the complexities can be seen akin to one another. It should make things easy to understand, a piece of cake. Wait that doesn’t make sense.

What other analogy should I use?