Why oh Why?
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| Sun, 07-30-2006 - 1:04am |
Why oh why did I volunteer to make not one, but TWO birthday cakes?!? I made them tonight, and I was okay making the first, but have just gone way overboard while working on the second one. I think I was just trying to torture myself or something :(.
The first one I made is a triple layer lemon cake with cream cheese frosting. In between the layers it's got an almost pudding like layer of lemon frosting, too. I had to cut the tops off the layers, so they would lay together good, and I didn't eat any of em! I only licked the spoon once just before I threw it in the sink, which isn't too bad. I had even planned on that happening because you have to taste whatever it is you are baking, or you don't know if somethings wrong! Okay, so did okay there.
Started on the second one. There's where the problems came in at. First of all, it's not "A" cake, it's 8 mini cakes. Only there's only 6 needed. They are fudge filled German Chocolate upside down cakes. Basically, I used little disposable pot pie pans, lined them with creamy supreme coconut pecan frosting, poured the cake batter in, then squeezed a couple tablespoons of hot fudge into the center of each batter before baking them. Yeah, yum! Anyway, I ate about 4 T of batter after I had the cakes poured, because, you know, I had to scrape the bowl clean :). Then I had about 1 T of frosting, since I had to lick the spoon clean before I put IT into the sink. Then the same with the fudge. Yeah, not so great, but I had the calories available. It was still a cheat, though, because I didn't plan for it and couldn't stop myself from doing it.
So, they come out of the oven. DFs home in a couple of hours, and he's supposed to be the official tester. So, what do I do? Plop one out on the plate, just to get it ready for DF *wink, wink* and then just tasted it a bit. Then I ate half of it :(. I still didn't go over in the calories, but I shouldn't have done that. I have a birthday party to go to tomorrow (and these cakes AREN'T for it, so there's going to be other cake there, I'm sure), and I know I won't be able to control my foods real well, so I should have been extra good today, but nope, I wasn't.
Okay, I just had to pout. I'm disappointed in myself, but I AM proud that I *only* ate half the mini cake, I had every intention of eating the whole thing, but it was very rich and I was very full, and so I put it away! Yay me on that one, I guess!
Staci
p.s. I should have known this would be difficult, because German chocolate cake with coconut pecan frosting is my FAVORITE kind of cake, and I haven't had a good one in forever.


Can't think of a reply right now.. I can only think about CAKE!!!
Honestly if it was me that would be plain torture.. you're a brave woman!
Aiming at my