- I was going to my Mom's for Easter dinner. I decided to use this as an opportunity to bake a new recipe.
- I made an easy but impressive recipe that I found here.
- Something went wrong with the icing... I followed the recipe to a T but apparently it needed to set up longer before I used it to ice the cake. It gradually melted and slid right off the cake.
- I had gotten an awesome book from the library called "Hello, Cupcake!" which included instructions for making some cute candy butterflies. I thought it would be fun for my sisters/mom and me to try making the butterflies and put some on top of the cake for extra decoration. See a successful execution of those butterflies here.
- Once we realized how unsophisticated our butterflies were turning out, and that the cake was melting away into a puddle of ugliness, Gretchen and I got the idea that it would be funny to just go all out and stick butterflies all over the cake, thus making it the gaudiest Easter cake ever.
- It actually tasted ok. I will probably make the recipe again but do it right. =)
2 comments:
Oh goodness! It looks like art! Seriously . . . the slanting and everything look purposeful -- like Monarch butterflies have emerged from their chrysalises and are hanging out on a stump to dry their wings. I can't imagine attempting an 8-layer cake though. Good for you. It does look yummy and I LOVE the butterfly candy!
Vicky, I love your perspective on it. =) I forgot to mention that I actually only made a 4-layer cake because I didn't have four 8-inch pans, only two.
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