Normally when I make cake, I bake the cakes on one night, and then assemble and frost them the next night. This is to ensure that the cakes are all the way cooled through, and I think that the extra day helps them to dry out a bit--which is a good thing.
Last week I made a cake as a thank you and got a bit crunched on that extra baking day. So I baked the cakes and *thought* that I had given them plenty of time to cool... it turns out that I hadn't, and the cake was so moist and soft too. As I iced the outside of the cake, it just kept shifting and sliding.
Long story short, I ended up with the cake below in my efforts to exaggerate the failure so that it didn't just look BAD. The resulting leaning tower of cake was actually quite stable.
Last week I made a cake as a thank you and got a bit crunched on that extra baking day. So I baked the cakes and *thought* that I had given them plenty of time to cool... it turns out that I hadn't, and the cake was so moist and soft too. As I iced the outside of the cake, it just kept shifting and sliding.
Long story short, I ended up with the cake below in my efforts to exaggerate the failure so that it didn't just look BAD. The resulting leaning tower of cake was actually quite stable.
Hey out there, if we didn't know better, one would think you have too much time on your hands!
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