With her up coming baby shower looming I had to decide pretty quick smart on a theme and after wild thoughts of ducks in baths and baby dragons hatching out of eggs I finally came up with what I thought to be the perfect idea. I was given the instructions from the host, instruction 1: There is no theme, Instruction 2:We don't know what the baby is. hmmmm so I need to make a cake that is unisex and doesn't cater to any specific theme GREAT this was right up my alley!
I have to admit my timing wasn't perfect my husband forgot to tell me we where attending a family birthday party the night before 45mins away from home and I would be dropping him off at work (night shift) and picking him up at 5am the next morning. To top it off I wasn't able to make my perfect chocolate cake the night before as planned so I made it at 6am the next morning praying that it would cool in time.
as the time slipped away I started to panic my sugar paste wasn't hardening as fast as I had hoped, my cake wasn't cooling quick enugh and my prebought butter cream from the month before smelled kinda funky.
First job in my damage control was ditching the premade butter cream, following crumboss's blog post and video I very proudly made my very own batch of amazing tasting Swiss butter cream. (Crumbbss your my hero this you already know but seriously you saved my tail!) I will NEVER EVER go back to buying premade crap again.
The cake I just had to roll with, as I started constructing everything I realised I wasn't going to pull this one off as well as I had hoped, I have taken this experience as a learning curve and an experience I hope never to go through again.
I was quite proud of my cake even with its obvious imperfections, I think I am proud because once again I have shown myself that yes I am good at something other than eating chips in front of the telly!
Until next time
Keep calm and eat cupcakes!
Rainy
That looks amazing! Very jealous!
ReplyDelete