who wouldnt want a piece of this?

friday was not my day in the kitchen.

normally on fridays i have an 11 o clock class before work at noon. this past friday that class was cancelled so that students could go listen to mark zuckerberg speak.

instead of going to the forum, i chose to stay home and bake a cake for a bridal shower that i was hosting saturday. i was trying to save myself some time saturday morning but it just ended up being a bad idea.

so, after sleeping in and taking my time getting ready, i started baking the cake. apparently my first mistake was to use shortening to grease the bottom of the pan - i have found that shortening usually works like a charm. i believe it to be much better than any cooking spray or flour and butter method. however, for some weird reason it did not work! oh no it did not. i made two cakes and both were absolutely stuck to the bottom of the pan.

so, using my amazing reasoning skills, i decided to cut each cake in half and use a spatula to remove the the cakes from thepans. this worked pretty well, actually. the cakes were just cut in half. nothing that frosting couldnt help! right...

fail #2: 7 minute icing. i dont even know what went wrong here. the icing simply would not thicken. i kept adding powdered sugar but i swear it was getting more and more runny by the minute. between adding cups and cups of powdered sugar i had the grand idea that this frosting should be pink- pink because my friend who is getting married has chosen pink and green as wedding colors- so in went the food coloring.

after continuing to try in vain to get the frosting to thicken, i had a moment of frustration and threw my morals out the window and decided to put the frosting on the cake regardless of its consistency. yes, i decided to put the runny, pink frosting on the cake that had a line running down the middle because i had cut it in half. the end result was ridiculous. the frosting seeped down the middle of the cake, over the edges and everywhere. i was so mad. i may have even screamed a few four letter words.

but then i looked at it the cake a little closer, and realized to my surprise that i had made a cake that perfectly resembled a couple of little butt cheeks. i was still pretty mad but couldnt help laughing a little. i immediately texted the boy. BUTT CAKE. ALL FOR YOU! and then i seriously considered submitting it to cake wrecks.



needless to say, the cake did not go to the shower.