My baked goods bring all the boys to the yard
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And when life gives you gravity, which then causes your overly-ambitious double-layer chocolate sheet cake to fall...
Make trifle.
And leave the rest of the collapsed cake for roommates and bask in the subsequent positive reinforcement.
Comments
Is that gravity that caused it to break, or an excess of frosting on a still-warm cake? Always chill or freeze a layer cake before icing!
p.s. Trifle looks awesome.
Posted by: Cait | May 29, 2007 2:11 PM
It was cool, but both layers were had serious domes. I was hoping the weight of the top layer would smoosh them flat -- no such luck. I should leave cake baking to the experts and stick to pudding.
Posted by: Jonelle | May 29, 2007 3:47 PM
The domes will never smoosh flat, that is an annoying thing about cake being so spongy. If your cakes have domes you can level them off with a serrated knife before frosting. It is really hard to bake a perfectly flat cake.
Posted by: Cait | May 30, 2007 10:52 AM
Apparently you can use these little inserts along the edge of a cake pan and that will make your domes less noticable. You can find them at a Michael's store in the cake baking aisle.
The domestic side does venture out once in a while! By the way I made your spicy brownies and they were tasty. Thanks for the recipe.
Posted by: Fiasco | June 3, 2007 9:28 PM