So, tonight at 10pm, I started baking the cake I'm suppose to bring for Easter lunch tomorrow. I made this wonderful 3 layer sour cream almond white cake with homeade buttercream frosting for another family party a few months ago and it turned out great! Everyone loved it and that means a LOT coming from a family of chocolate lovers. Tonight, however, things didn't go so well. I made the recipe as stated and poured the huge amount of batter into three 9in. cake pans and put them in the oven. About 20 minutes later, I smell something burning and peek in the oven to find 2 of the 3 cakes have overflowed all over the bottom of the oven. Hmm, why did this happen you ask? I forgot to 1/2 the recipe.... I put enough batter for six 9in. cakes into only 3 pans.
So this morals of the story:
read directions over and over
turn on brain when baking a cake
don't wait upntil 10pm to bake special Easter cake
and the list goes on and on...
Do you think we'll survive Easter without a cake? I hope so, because I'm not going back to the store at 11:30pm to start over. (I don't think there was a cake at the first Easter anyway). Oh-- and anyone have any suggestions for what I should do with enough butter cream frosting to paint a small house?
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Let's see, you can go to the store tomorrow and buy a few Sara Lee pound cakes and slice them into 2 or 3 layers and put the buttercream frosting between the layers and on top. Maybe get some strawberries or something as a garnish. Or buy some slice and bake sugar cookie dough and color the frosting and tell the family that you are having a cookie decorating activity and contest after lunch. Bake the cookies together and then everyone ices and eats them. Just a few suggestions. Let us know how it goes.
Oh, Amy. I hate that for you! No cake, not to mention a messy oven. Just eat the buttercream frosting. You'll feel better. Or you could paint a small house.
I sure miss you!
Oh goodness! That totally sounds like something I would do. I have a few recipes that I ALWAYS mess up. I vote that you should eat the icing!
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