The Kitchen Made

I bake plenty of cakes, just like my mom baked cakes when I was a child.  You get a mix, you put it in a 9×13″ pan, you frost it when it’s done and all is good!  No taste complaints, but the pan-living-cake isn’t the prettiest cake on the block.  Years ago I decided to step out of my comfort zone and make a 2 layer cake.  I didn’t cool the cake enough before I put the frosting in the middle and frosting was runny….it was awful.

Being an excellent sport, I poked a little fun at myself and piped out my heart and sense of humor on top:

That was about two years ago and I have not touched my 9″ cake rounds since.  UNTIL TONIGHT.  haha.  Here I’ll go through my (insane) cooking/baking thought process:

I have to make a dessert for the potluck tomorrow…what can I make out of what is in my cupboards?  Cake!  I have cake mix!  That’s quick and easy.  Oooo and I want to try that dairy free dark chocolate frosting mix I bought.  Ok so I should make a layered cake, fun!  yay fun!  Will that be enough frosting?  Looks like it.  (cake bakes in two 9″ pans…and I attempt to remove the cake from the pan which I did not pre-grease in my haste.  One comes out clean, one breaks in half)  Oh crap, now I have one cake and a broken one…can I patch this with frosting?  Yeah no.  I have another cake mix, I’ll just make 2 more layers and make a 3 layer cake!  (makes 2 more cake rounds)  I only have enough frosting for the exterior, what am I going to put in the middle?  Jam?  Nah, I hate fruit and chocolate mixed together.  Carmel?  Don’t have enough and it may drip out.  Hmmm…coconut and pecan?  Sounds good!  Mix together some butter and throw in the rest of the can of carmel….ok coconut and pecans!  Texture is too dry.  Add some brown rice syrup.  Still needs more liquid.  What do people add to stuff to make it thinner anyway?  Oh yeah milk!  *adds soymilk*  Looks good!

Then I carved the round top off the cake layers, spread the filling, put the dark chocolate frosting all over the top (vanilla cake, FYI) and I MADE IT!  I made a layered cake!  Woo!  I can’t cut into it until tomorrow, but I’m excited to taste it.  I mean…can you go wrong?

And it’s flat on top!!!

I did, of course, taste some frosting samples and it’s gooooooooood.

Maybe this year I can flex my layered cake muscles and attempt a birthday cake or two! 

Tags: cake, frosting, trial and error

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