Some syntactic sugar can help with this a bit; here's the same code rewritten using the pipe operator in Elixir: def make_tiramisu(eggs, sugar1, wine, chee

Some syntactic sugar can help with this a bit; here's the same code rewritten using the pipe operator in Elixir: def make_tiramisu(eggs, sugar1, wine, cheese, cream, fingers, espresso, sugar2, cocoa) beat(eggs) |> beat(sugar1, wine) |> whisk |> beat(beat(cheese)) |> fold(whip(cream)) |> assemble( soak2seconds(fingers, disolve(sugar2, espresso))) |> sift(cocoa) end It reads a lot closer to the recipe, though the nested multiple operations are still a bit hard to read. Separating them into their own named functions would probably be better.