Wow! I can't believe it's been almost a year since
my last post. Honestly, I don't know
where my time goes. But with summer upon
us, I'm hoping to catch up and get back to some serious baking.
I volunteered to
bake a cake for a dear friend's birthday.
And she doesn't know it. The
last cake I decorated was WAY back in the beginning and it was pretty … wobbly. Ok - it was bad. So, I'm feeling a bit intimidated.
First, everyone
agrees she likes chocolate. So I planned
a chocolate cake. Then, luckily, we were
all talking about desserts and she mentioned that she doesn't like chocolate cake
unless it's really moist. Hm. Great.
Sounds like "everyone" likes chocolate instead of Judy! LOL
So me thinks, thinks
me … I'll use my go-to chocolate cupcake recipe because it is super moist. Then paranoia took over. I need to do half chocolate and half white. No idea how to do THAT. Look it up on Cake Central. Ok, I think I can swing that. I did the tilt and pour method. I poured the chocolate into the tilted pan
first, because it is the heaviest batter.
When I added the white cake batter, it was amazing. They pretty much stayed 2 separate
cakes! Good on one hand, maybe not so
good on the other because the cake wanted to crack into 2 pieces where the 2
flavors met. The frosting helped keep it
all together.
I tried a different
frosting because I wasn't happy with the consistency of my usual
buttercream. Again, I struggled getting
the right texture to pipe but I finally got it and once I did, it worked great. Unfortunately, I was running out of time and
my flowers and writing were pretty shaky.
I'm so mad at myself
because I was so flustered that I forgot to take pictures. But at least here is the final result.
Now, as to the
"age" … we thought it would be nice to not be real obvious so another
friend had her hubby get this equation for us.
We wanted it really complicated.
If anyone would like to verify what that age is, please let us all
know. We know what it's SUPPOSED to be,
but … well, it's been a few years since math class. LOL
