Friday was the day I set out to bake all the baked goods while waiting til Saturday to make the cold items such as fillings which uses milk and frosting due to my having to travel 3 hours to get to church. I was on a roll baking but I noticed that the chocolate cake mix was a little off but I thought to myself, "Well maybe it's just me. Let me bake it to see how it turns out." I did and it didn't...didn't turn out right. It was a long day and I just didn't have the time nor the energy to bake another delicious "Chocolate Sensation" cake so I decided to make it when I arrive to my aunt's house the next day.
My children and I arrived at Auntie P's house in the afternoon. Once we got back from getting something to eat (because our family loooovvveeesss to eat), I started on the chocolate cake. She didn't have cake pans and out of all things I forgot at home was the cake pan needed to make my daddy's birthday cake. I ended up having to use her bundt pan for it which means my decorations will be different. The cake turned out good this time. However, I had a little trouble getting it out of the pan. Ninety percent of the cake came out fine but there was one side that had a chunk gone. I carefully slid both sides of the end of the cake still stuck in the pan out. I put some frosting on the part that was out of the pan to use as a glue to hold the two pieces of torn cake together. Both of my auntie's were amazed lol. Then there was another problem. The cake was too soft and too broken to ice it the way that I wanted to so I took my 2D tip, put the frosting in the pastry bag and began piping. It came out pretty good. Then I drizzled some Hershey's Chocolate Syrup across it to bring out the piping.I tell you this cake caused me trouble from the beginning and all I wanted to do was surprise my daddy. Transporting the cake was another problem. Nevertheless, we got it there. The family event went on as scheduled. I set up the table and waited for the people to come downstairs. I helped my cousin to serve the food. My daddy came downstairs and the serving line slowed down so I figured this would be the perfect time to present my daddy his birthday cake. As I walked towards the table, my eyes flew wide open and I went into shock! The cake had all but two slices of cake left! They mauled it! I rushed over and got the last two pieces that were left and put it in a to-go box for my daddy. I walked over to him in embarrassment and explained what happened but this was for him. If you could have seen the look on my daddy's face...speechless. He looked at me as if to say, "What is this mess!" But he took it anyhow.
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| My face when I saw the cake |
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| I wish the cake that was left looked this pretty lol. | I wanted you all to see how much they left. Disclaimer: This is not my cake nor am I the photographer. |
