Have you ever been watching one of those cool cooking shows? I happen to love them and one of the hosts says something like "Here's an easy tip for you.... Just pop your cake into the freezer and the crumbs won't be a problem!" in one of those ultra perky voices. Yeah you know those ones that I'm talking about!
HOWEVER what they don't tell you is so much! Because then they continue on in that same perky voice... "for more tips check out our website at youcandoitifyoucan'tthenyou'reatotaldweeb.com (not a real site BTW) Where I'm assuming that they actually put the whole instructions on the site... but who actually looks. I know I don't.
So I was making my son's 6th birthday cake. It was a super cool superhero themed cake and I wanted to have his favorite superhero scaling a building. To do that I had to make a building.... Which is not that easy with cake. So I took two loaf pans and put them together and then cut the sides down... but I knew if I just iced them that I would have crumb city... So I remembered the freezing trick. I stuck it in the freezer over night. This should be easy-peasy right? Just like every cake baker on food show has proclaimed. WRONG!!!! What they don't tell you is this: Frozen cake makes for frozen frosting. You have a limited amount of time from the time you slap that frosting onto the cake to the time that it hardens up from the cake freezing it! That means you can't help your son with his homework, you can't answer the phone and heaven forbid you have to pee before that thing is 100% perfectly smooth!
Eventually I got it all... I cheated. I heated the frosting to a near boiling point and prayed that it didn't condense when it came in contact with the cake. Slapped it on and worked very quickly. So next time I'll know. And I'm sure I'll make some other dumb mistake but hopefully it won't be this one. I'm getting better each time.
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