Thankfully, I had a sous chef on hand to help with frosting mixing, tasting, and dyeing and anything else I needed. And it turns out, I needed someone to save the day. Enter the fairytale...
How Kurt Saved the Day
It was 10 pm on a cold and wintry evening. The teacher princess was exhausted and wanted to sleep. She only had the top layer of the castle cake to finish and then sleep would wrap her in its sweet cocoon. She was pleased with how the bottom layer had turned out even if the cake had popped up and rounded off so that it made the cake a little more whimsical than she had envisioned. The little pan she had baked the top layer in was a tad too big around to put the ice cream cone turrets where they needed to be. She knew she would need to cut the final layer and stack it, and she was nervous how it would happen. The quiet knight stepped in and wielded the big scary knife blade that made the princess a little queasy. He frosted between the layers and stacked them onto the cake. He even offered to eat off the evil glutenous crumbs that had escaped. The princess began frosting and soon encountered a terrible dilemma. Because the cake sides were now the spongy inside of the cake, little pieces of cake were getting into her beautiful pale blue frosting. Tears welled up in the princess' eyes, irrationality and panic overtaking her at the late hour. What was she to do? The knight began to throw out ideas, and the princess became more panicked with each passing moment. Then he was quiet. When he spoke again the princess could see the bright bulb of superb ideas flashing over his head. He would build reinforcement walls with graham crackers and stick them on with frosting so that the princess could work her frosting charms. The princess was skeptical, but as he carefully measured each new wall, she could see that he was a secret genius knight. In the end, the cake came out a little round and imperfect, but it was just the kind of whimsical magic that little 4 year old princesses adore. And the teacher princess, the little princess, and the dark knight lived happily ever after. (at least as far as cakes go!) .
Hi Abbie! Your cake turned out nicely... a few tips for next time, if you'll allow me! 1. Make your cake layers ahead of time and freeze them, then trim them once frozen. Much easier and neater to cut. 2. Use a long serrated knife to trim off the domed top of the bottom layer. This will make it much flatter and neater for the top layer. 3. Put a very thin "crumb coat" of frosting on the cake first and then refrigerate until firm. This will seal in all the crumbs so that when you put the final coat on, they won't mess up the outer layer.
ReplyDeleteGlad Kiera (am I right that that's who it was for??) liked the cake, and yay to the Dark Knight for saving the day. :)