I've been craving chocolate cake for weeks. So we finally have an occasion to make a cake (and not have mounds of leftovers to ourselves). But it was probably the ugliest cake I've ever made. I'm being completely serious. I wish I'd taken a picture, because this thing was messed up.
We have two round cake pans, but one is 8 inches and the other is 9. I thought I could trim the larger one to fit the smaller layers... Not so easy. It was made of vanilla cake and chocolate cake (to appease Trevor), and both were new recipes. The vanilla cake stuck to the pan and tore completely in half. And I totally cut the chocolate layers all skiwampus. Needless to say, it looked terrible. The frosting got all infested with cake crumbs, my layers were all crazy, and we couldn't even cut it without it falling over. Oh, and before all of that happened, in the oven the chocolate cake boiled over onto the vanilla cake below it, and onto my oven, thus creating the second oven fire we've had since October.
But it was really tasty. I liked the chocolate cake recipe, so I thought I'd share it with you all.
http://www.foodess.com/2011/03/moist-chocolate-cake/
Next time I'm just gonna make it the way this lady says, and I'm gonna love it. In fact, I'm deeming this exact cake my birthday cake in five weeks.
It was delicious, and that's all that matters.
ReplyDeleteOh man the chocolate cake looks so good!!!
ReplyDeleteI had to laugh at your cake mishaps, as I can completely relate! One time the wires on my whisk attachment broke free WHILE my mixer was on, and sprayed cake batter all over the ceiling!!! ARRRGGGHHHHH!!!! I wish someone had been recording it, I was laughing so hard.
When I'm trimming cakes to be stacked and filled, I find it's easier to freeze them first. Not sure if that would have helped at all? :)