CAKES!

Ok so the other day I went to the kitchen supply store to buy some cake pans to attempt cakes...layer cakes. I haven't done a layer cake since I was younger and it was only for fun and I remember icing it was sometimes a huge ordeal but I was doing it for fun. Sometimes the cake wouldn't come out of the pan completely and I had to "glue" it together with icing. Wonder if I had any pictures of my first cakes...hmmmmm. Anyway, I tried doing a layer cake (with all the nightmares in my head of OMG I am going to make a huge mess in my kitchen and oven lol) and the cake popped out of the pan fine but icing was another story. I should have iced the middle and placed it in the refrig but I attempted to ice the whole cake in a really hot kitchen...no good. So before I keep writing and this become a novel, here are some pictures. I made my mother's famous holiday carrot cake and it tasted yummy. Presentation....I have to work on.

After some more practice these 8" double layer cakes will be part of our rotation.