I really didn't intend this wreck. Really. But today I had to go to Dunkin' Donuts and pick up the #8 donuts. Then take them to school. Then stay and volunteer in the art room. Then head home to:
bake a cake
make 16 quarts of soup
ice the cake
locate and wrap Gillian's presents
(then back to school for 3:30 pickup, then TaeKwonDo, then gymnastics, then home, dinner, presents, then collapse. The kids can put themselves to bed!)
I like to keep the "dome" on the top layer of the cake, thinking it gives a nice homemade look. That was the least of my problems.
This Williams-Sonoma spiderweb cake was my inspiration:
I know that you are supposed to pipe the circles and then drag to do the lines. I tried that and the chocolate wouldn't drag. So I thought I could pipe them. This is how it came out.
This is the final product, after I wiped off the runny chocolate and re-iced. God bless the person who invented sprinkles.
UPDATE:
See...look! Four tasty layers! Chocolate and vanilla filling!
5 comments:
wow. i'm. yeah. speechless.
Who cares - how did it taste???
Well, the nice surprise is that it was FOUR layers, with a secret vanilla core. Gillian thought that was pretty awesome. Tasty, too.
I forgot that Gillian and I share a birthday. Happy belated B-day, Gillian! Good salvage on the cake, mom :)
Maia and I are coming over - this is a week where we need some choco cake w/ a super secret vanilla core :-)
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