Saturday, July 30, 2011

This, my friends, is what we call an "Accident"

I set out to make a Harry Potter cake. It was going to be an epic, beautiful cake.
I was inspired for this cake by this other blog I stumbled upon, seen here: Awesome Harry Potter Cake

The cake seen there was gorgeous, but I had an idea to change it up a bit.

So off I went to Michael's. They had a vanilla cake mix I wanted to try (It was more expensive, and expensive = good, right?)
They also had the colors I needed to make the right colors for the Houses of Hogwarts. Which are, in case you have been living under a rock and do not know:

Gryffindor
Slytherin
Hufflepuff
Ravenclaw

So I did my best. They didn't have actual silver for Slytherin, so I bought a blue-ish color. 
 I also needed a 6inch cake pan. Michael's wanted to charge me $6.99! I said NOOO and went off to another discount store.. and then another.. and then another... and no one else sold them!


So then I came home, and got down to business.

Here are the ingredients! 

 
Did you know, that one cake mix will not make 4 8" round cakes?
CRAZY, Neither did I!
So then I had to get creative.
I had an extra chocolate cake mix, so I thought, hey, I'll use that!

So the plan was, the bronze in ravenclaw, and the green in slytherin could be made with brown
Did you know that if you add green to brown, it looks like baby poop?
CRAZY, Neither did I!


So at this point, it was no longer a Harry Potter cake, and more a really colorful tasty cake.

Here are some final pictures



So yeah.
As my husband says, it's an acid trip in cake!

It was an adventure, though. An experiment for sure.

Here's a recipe, in case you feel like making this crazy concoction.

Cake:
Yellow cake mix, made how the box says
Chocolate cake mix, made how the box says
Food coloring, if you want to have fun colors (but srsly, avoid green and chocolate!)

Frosting:
1 cup shortening
1 cup butter (2 sticks)
1 16oz bag of powdered sugar
6oz milk
pinch of salt
1tsp of vanilla

For the frosting: cream together the butter and shortening. When nice and fluffy, mix in half the powdered sugar, salt and vanilla. Mix until blended, and then add the rest of the powdered sugar. Blend for about 4-5 minutes longer, until nice and fluffy.

Let the cakes cool completley before frosting
(really, this is important. Another lesson learned the floppy cake mess way)

Put down one layer, and frost between the different layered cakes, with the different frosting colors.
Let it set, and then frost the outside.
Voila! Giant colorful mess.


The consensus, however, was that it was fantastic.
And now, to make this post even better, Averna, who likes to poop on me.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

There's a first for everything.

This first, is my first post!
Welcome to my blog, friends and family! (As I'm sure, at least for now, you'll be my only readers)

I've made this blog to share my (sometimes hilarious/awful/genius/delicious) experiments in the kitchen!

The plan is to have baked things, as well as actual recipes.
I can't promise that everything I make will be my own recipe, in fact, it probably won't be. But, I promise to give credit where credit is due.

Now, then, here is a small sample of things I've already made!








Just a small glimpse of what I've made so far!

I'm very excited to get this started.
Tomorrow, I will post my first actual "recipe"
Here is a picture of the ingredients, WHAT COULD IT BE!?