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I have a question about カンペキに in the following sentence. As far as I can guess
it modifies the whole 「思ったとおりの仕上がり」, but grammatically I cannot understand
why. Well, 仕上がり is a noun, so wouldn't カンペキな be correct here?

> お母さまを真似して作ってみたんだけど、カンペキに思ったとおりの仕上がりなの
>
> "It came out perfectly just like I thought it should!"
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Modifying adjectives: カンペキ [に or な?] 思ったとおりの仕上がり
「[思]{おも}ったとおりの[仕上]{しあ}がり」 is a noun phrase. Why? Because the last word
「仕上がり」is a noun.

「カンペキに」 is the [連用形]{れんようけい} and therefore, it cannot modify a noun or noun
phrase. It can only modify a verb or adjective. To modify a noun, you will
need to form a [連体形]{れんたいけい}, which will be 「カンペキな」.

「思ったとおりの」 is an adjectival phrase because of the last word 「の」 and it is
what「カンペキに」 modifies here. 「思ったとおりの」 naturally modifies 「仕上がり」.

> In the sentence, 「カンペキに思ったとおりの仕上がりなの。」, you could actually replace the 「に」
> with 「な」 without changing the meaning much.

If you used 「カンペキな」, both 「カンペキな」 and 「思ったとおりの」 would modify 「仕上がり」.
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完璧 doesn't "modify" 仕上がり here, it is used adverbially. The difference is a
little hard to translate, because 仕上がり is usually not translated literally (at
least not for cakes). If we tried, we'd have something like

> 思ったとおりの **完璧な** 仕上がりなの  
>  _lit._ It's a **perfect** "finish", just as I thought.  
>  It came out perfectly, just as I thought.
>
> **完璧な** 思ったとおりの仕上がりなの  
>  _lit._ It's a **perfect** "finish-I-imagined".  
>  It came out perfect in the way I imagined.
>
> **完璧に** 思ったとおりの仕上がりなの  
>  _lit._ It's **exactly** the "finish" I imagined.  
>  It came out exactly the way I imagined.

From the translation you have, it looks like it should be 完璧 **な**. I think
the best way to think of it is that 完璧 **に** is used to mean "exactly".
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