I'll admit it, I will never be on a show like Ace of Cakes, Food Networks Ultimate Challenge (the cake ones), or Cake Boss. Sure, I can make cakes that taste awesome, but they never quite look right (with the exception of the raspberry cake I referenced in my most recent post). Usually there's something lopsided about it, or the frosting looks kind of weird. Well, a few weeks ago was Charbel's birthday. I volunteered to make the cake. I was thinking about this awesome kiwi type cake my cousin Claire had at her wedding (like two years ago. Don't ask me why I was thinking about it), and I really wanted to make something similar. So I searched out a recipe. It was kind of complicated and everything was in ounces so I had to do some conversions.
Well, I made it. It looked smaller than it was supposed to. But that was okay. I was okay with it being small. Then came the time to frost it. My frosting kind of melted a little bit, so I made some more. It didn't look to incredibly wonderful, but it looked okay. Finally, it was time to put on the white and dark chocolate drizzle. I had Forrest put the white chocolate on after I put on the dark chocolate. For some reason, as soon as he started doing that, the cake started falling apart and melting. Here was the final verdict:
Actually, by the time we brought it to Daniel and Charbel's, it was pretty much spread out all over a pan. It was pretty funny. The good news is, it tasted delicious! I'm still not sure why the white chocolate melted it, but the dark chocolate didn't. The white chocolate had kind of hardened in the microwave, so Forrest suggested I put some oil in it. Maybe that's what did it. Personally, I think Forrest knew that would ruin it, and he wanted everyone to like his chocolate bread pudding more than my cake...but he denies that ;-)
One day I'll make a perfect cake. Just you wait.
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