Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Banana Cake with Chocolate Frosting

This months "Cake Slice Bakers" voted on "Banana Cake with Chocolate Frosting" from Southern cakes by Nancie Mcdermott. I really can't give an honest opinion about this cake. I burned the top of the inside of my mouth with hot food and I was left with this huge blister that wouldn't heal! Every time I took a bite of the cake it stung and hurt so bad I couldn't savor the cake!

The frosting recipe is another story! I don't know what I did wrong, I completely ruined the frosting! As the frosting was cooking over the heat the melted butter seperated from the chocolate mixture. I continued to let it simmer for the five minutes hoping it would all come together but it just didn't happen. I don't know if I over mixed while cooking or if substituting the evaporated milk/half-and-half for light milk made the difference. I was too frustrated and tired to attempt another batch. I ended up just making a basic thin chocolate icing instead.

Hopefully I have better luck next time! Click here for the printable recipe.









Sunday, April 11, 2010

Princess Birthday Party

This weekend was crazy! I had a "Princess Castle" cake order plus "Bell" and "Aurora". I made all the royal icing flowers on friday night, which took me 2 hours. On Saturday I baked all the cakes, that took 3 hours. That same night I decided to go ahead and make Bell & Aurora, that took 2 hours. Sunday morning I made the castle, which took 3 hours. Thats a total of 10 hours of labor I put into these cakes! Needless to say It was all worth it! The birthday girls loved their cakes, mom was pretty happy too!

Princess Castle

Bell


Aurora



Birthday girls, Alondra and Genesis.