Unfortunate :|
After an all day meeting at work, I spent six hours of my evening working on this monstrosity:
It might not look very big, but this thing was 12" in diameter, 6" tall and weighed about ten pounds. :/
The thing about constructing cakes that most people don't realize is that the hardest part about decorating is all of the problem solving/thinking you have to do to execute something like this. Doing it is the easy part.
The entire thing is a problem from the very beginning. It has to be half chocolate and half vanilla, it has to be whipped cream, it has to have fresh fruit...
Le sigh...
The worst part about it is that despite all of the things that can (and usually do) go wrong, you can't really stop breathing until the cake is out of your hands and into other peoples' bellies... this particular cake (photographed above) had gotten a huge crack in the middle, the fruit had fallen off of the edge, and despite all of this, it still managed to come out in one piece. But, I've worked with cakes long enough to know that it's 90% hiding mistakes and 10% skill.
I came home today and checked on it before I was scheduled to do the drop off, and all of the sugar along the sides of the cake had melted into a lovely gooey golden brown puddle... Nice. I completely forgot that whipped cream will ruin everything it touches.
Bottom Line: whipped cream cakes are evil and you should always have a back up plan. In this case, Happy March Birthdays! Here's a can of baked beans! Your birthday cake was ruined!
The thing about constructing cakes that most people don't realize is that the hardest part about decorating is all of the problem solving/thinking you have to do to execute something like this. Doing it is the easy part.
The entire thing is a problem from the very beginning. It has to be half chocolate and half vanilla, it has to be whipped cream, it has to have fresh fruit...
Le sigh...
The worst part about it is that despite all of the things that can (and usually do) go wrong, you can't really stop breathing until the cake is out of your hands and into other peoples' bellies... this particular cake (photographed above) had gotten a huge crack in the middle, the fruit had fallen off of the edge, and despite all of this, it still managed to come out in one piece. But, I've worked with cakes long enough to know that it's 90% hiding mistakes and 10% skill.
I came home today and checked on it before I was scheduled to do the drop off, and all of the sugar along the sides of the cake had melted into a lovely gooey golden brown puddle... Nice. I completely forgot that whipped cream will ruin everything it touches.
Bottom Line: whipped cream cakes are evil and you should always have a back up plan. In this case, Happy March Birthdays! Here's a can of baked beans! Your birthday cake was ruined!
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