As most of you know I do a lot of cake decorating. Well, I make the cakes for all the teachers birthdays at school. (before you go thinking that is a ton...there are only about 15 teachers at the school...and some of those are doubled up...so it really isn't that many over a whole school year). Anywho...I made the big tier cake for the baby shower we had at school and it just so happened that one of my favorite teachers birthdays was the sunday before. So I went to her and said that since we had SOOO much cake that day that I would make her a special cake later that week any kind she wanted. SO she wanted a yellow cake with homeade chocolate icing. Well, I planned to do it Wednesday night for Thursday because we had something going on Friday and couldn't do it. I get home from school and make the cake...I ran out of stuff to make my pan coat so I had to use the spray stuff. I also ran out of wax paper so I tried using aluminum foil. Let me just say DON"T EVER DO THIS...my cake fell apart into about 8 pieces (I had also ran out of cake mix and eggs) So I put them together the best I could and figured I could use icing as the glue. I then proceeded to make the icing. It was awful. The cocoa made these terrible little clumps and it was WAY to thick. SO I added milk and did the best I could. Well, my house was warm from all of the baking and the icing wouldn't spread right...it kinda got runny...UGH! I finally managed to get it on...found a tube of store bought icing to write the name and make the flowers with and decorated it. It looked terrible, but by now it was after midnight and I was exhausted so I went to put it on the tray as my dear husband cleaned up the bowls and the rest of the mess I made. We finally got the kitchen cleaned up and when the lid was going to be put on a big chunk got taken out of the side. WHAT!?!?!?! Could anything else happen. Now I had already gotten rid of all the extra icing so I went digging through the pantry and found a tub of chocolate icing. Wow...someone was looking out for me there huh?! I fixed the spot the best I could, put the lid on it, and went to bed. I tell you any other person and I would have just went and bought a cake the next morning, but it ended up tasting really good and no one even noticed all the imperfections. Now, I can say this is one of the ugliest cakes I have EVER made, but I can also say it is probably the one that I worked on the hardest. Isn't that the way it always works?
2 comments:
Oh, just ROCK ON Sistah! Absolutely fabulous story! Who cares what it looks like? You took alot of time (and went too much trouble) to make a homemade cake for someone... Amazing you are... :)
haha, it still looks WAY better than a cake I would make!! at least it tasted good, that's all that matters right?? Im so glad to hear that everyone loved it!
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