To me, this is a picture of profection. There were so many times my testing ended before I reached this point. This is a milestone of achievement for me.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Baking
After a little while of baking, I looked in the oven window to find this!
How high is this cake suppose to rise, I wondered...
Improvisation
If you look close at the picture, you will see a small metal piece attached to the edge of the pan. (It is on the right hand side of the picture just above my Kitchen Aid mixer.) There are three of these and they are supposed to support the cake as it is cooing upside down. But, because the cake was so tall...well, you see my problem. Normally, you would put the long neck of a glass bottle through the center hole and the pan would hang upside down while it is cooling. I didn't have the above described bottle, so I had to improvise.
This is what I came up with. I had 2 wire hangers I bent and attached the hook end to the inside hole of the pan. I hung this on the doorway, off to the side, between my kitchen and living room. I was the only one home (my husband was out of town), so there shouldn't be any reason why this couldn't cool here for several hours.
For those of you that are nervious the cake will "fall" out of the pan...I knew this wasn't possible. You don't grease this pan, so the egg whites have a surface to climb up and rise to their fullest. You have to cut the cake out of the pan when it is cool, so I knew it was good and stuck.
Finale
How do you suppose this happened? Was the cake not "good and stuck" like I thought it was?
I RAN INTO THE CAKE!!! UGG. Remember I told you the cake was hanging in between the kitchen and the living room? Well, sometime after the cake had been hanging there a while, I apparently forgot about it. It isn't normal for me to "hang" a cake in the doorway...so I ran into it. Clunk was the sound it made when it hit my head. I laughed out loud and I wished my husband had been home, because he would have been laughing with me.
Now the question is, what do I do with it? Could I still take it to work after it had hit the ground? Yes. I cut the bottom off and they devoured it.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Train Cake
I bought this pan at a garage sale for $2. I didn't have a cake plate this shape, so I had the idea to use a sheet pan wrapped in foil. Come to find out, it wasn't a new idea. Cake ladies have been doing this forever.
Happy Birthday to You
This is a four layer yellow cake with chocolate icing. The red ballons are made from cooked sugar with food coloring added.
A GIANT cupcake is born
This cake was made in a GIANT 2-pc cupcake pan. The pan holds about 8-9 cups of batter and it bakes at a low tempature for about an hour. I tested several white cake recipes to achieve the right amount of batter in the pan. It needed to be a certain height and density.
My final tweeked recipe has been renamed to "Humble Cake" and I will post the recipe here...when I learn how.
Cupcake 4 - The Final Cake
I used a star tip on a piping bag and I made a lot of stars. I worked on this for about 45 minutes. I am planning on pulling out the cake decorating book so I can learn how to use the other tips. I am looking forward to some different textures in the decoration next time. Over all I was happy with it and it tasted good.
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