Cake = Epic Fail

So this past week was really hectic. One of Travis’ co-workers heard that I made cakes and requested that I make a Hello Kitty cake for his daughters 6th birthday. Then my girlfriend Cassie decided that we ought to go out to eat for our husbands birthdays (they are both named Travis and their birthdays are one day apart), she also requested that I make a cake for that outing. Next, another friend asked if I could make a 40th birthday cake for one of her friends. All of these cakes needed to be done by Friday. I don’t know what got over me but I said yes to all three…

This lead to an epic fail with the 40th birthday cake… At least I think so. This cake was two layers of chocolate on the bottom and the top (the 40) was yellow cake. I covered the whole thing in fondant, I'd tried a new recipe for that and it was a failure too, and then I wrapped a ribbon around the layers and piped icing on the top.

The Hello Kitty cake came out fine, it was all yellow cake with fondant icing. The cake for the boys was lovely! I made two ten inch round chocolate cakes, mashed up mint oreos and spread them in the center, then covered it in vanilla icing. I piped roses all over it. LOVELY!

This week I have one more order for a cake for a 10 year old. After this one, I’m going into cake bakers retirement!