Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Cake

So I decided while Evan is in China I needed to learn how to make topsy-turvy, mad-hatter style birthday cakes. What possessed me to do this... still trying to figure that out. Luckily, I had a way to get rid of the cake so I wouldn't eat the whole thing...let's call it "I'm saving me from myself" or, "Happy Birthday Sarah Miles" :) Anyway. I'm sure most of you will find this boring but here's how I did it....

First, I lined the pans with parchment paper, then I baked them.










After the cakes were baked, I repeated the process so I would have two layers of each size. Then each of the four cakes went into my freezer overnight.





Then I made the frosting, cut a hole into the bottom cake the size of the top layer, shaved down the edges to be angled, cut the tops of both at an angle, and I frosted both the top and bottom and in between each layer.








After I finished all of that, it was back into the freezer for both layers (now two).

The next day, I put two cakes on top of each other and made one big cake.
After my big cake was completed I decorated it with decorator's frosting...not quite what I wanted to do but I was already late for the party!





Ta-da! It looks kind of silly but it tasted really good since I used butter-cream frosting instead of fondant. Next time though I would need maybe two more days so I could do a few more layers of frosting (this is only one and you can kind of see the cake through it cause it's so thin)