Almost halfway there, and you would think I would be an expert by now, maybe this is the universe's nice way of saying, "Give up! You're just mediocre!" - And I just made the worst cake ever to prove it. Even worse than the Easter debacle- the cake just looks nasty. And it has been a pretty crappy week too. Car problems galore everything from slashed tired, burnt out lights, and a recall for an air bag problem that we had just shelled out 560 big ones for (at least we will get reimbursed). In addition, we are digging all in the front of my house to put a drain in because when it rains, we get lake Pequot in the front of our yard that no amount of running and leaping can surpass, and Ms. Utility marked the wires wrong (marked two wrong and completely forgot to mark the last one) so of course, we dug and we cut our neighbor's Comcast cable. To top it all off, Ted and I have to head to school tonight for play duty- now don't get me wrong, I love our school's plays and our students really do an amazing job, but Edgewood is not the place I really want to be tonight.
The cake itself took forever to make because I had to make the cake, make the frosting, and make caramel candy to go on top of it- which of course was the part that ruined my cake because the sugar was taking forever to caramelize so I decided to turn up the heat, and of course I burned the caramel candy- worse off I had no more ingredients to do it over, and since the tires are slashed in our car- no vehicle to get me to the store to get more sugar. Besides the sugar for the caramel topping, the cake included: butter, flour, baking powder, vanilla, brown sugar, eggs, and milk. The icing was a mixture of corn syrup egg yolks, butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla.
Here is what the cake is supposed to look like:
Here is what my ugly cake looks like (however Ted said it tasted great, minus the burnt caramel)
Yuk. What else can I say?
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