Here is cake #1, first cake baked, using my new bake-even strips:
Unuseable.... it still was domed, and then it cracked. Realized when I washed up the pan, and took the bake even strips off, that whoops... .was supposed to saturate them in water. At least I didn't start a fire with them (which a former student did, by not saturating them).
Onto cake #2:
Whoops, forgot to put wax paper on the bottom of the pan.
Cake #3:
The cake baked fine, had a small hump, but not bad. I managed to get it to the board, and into the freezer without it breaking. I then base iced it during Paisley's morning nap, and it was perfect! I mean absolutely perfectly iced. Then I went to mix all the other colours I would need for the class... and realized, it was supposed to be base iced in light blue, not in white. So I scrambled to mix up some light blue icing, and Paisley woke up before I managed to get it on the cake. So after getting her up, I put her in her exersaucer so I could finish icing (she's not a big fan of being IN the exersaucer, would rather play on the outside of it, but she actually was content in there for about 10 minutes). I got the cake iced, then was in the smoothing process when she started to have a meltdown. So the light blue icing wasn't perfectly smoothed, but it was good enough. Here is the result after I brought it to class, and decorated it there. Not great, but I think it's a good starting point for the class.
This week we're making figures... so I have to either bake a cake, or bring in cupcakes. I think I'll do a cake again, but this time I'll remember all the steps, and it should be good the first time around. I couldn't believe how many things went wrong last time. A baby can sure frazzle your thought process.
1 comment:
Your iced cake looks pretty good. Well done!
Mom
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