So in attempting to have a great first Birthday for my littleone. I have decided I am going to make her a sock monkey cake, that's the theme that we picked and I am determined to make her a cake myself. So today I set out to make the first round because 1. I am not the greatest at this kind of stuff. 2. I have to actually carve the cake and 3. I have to frost it more than just all over.
So here is my first attempt and there is room for A LOT of improvement. Please don't laugh.
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| The pans before I put in the cake batter....one of the round pans leaked and I had to move the batter to a square pan. |
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| The batter - homemade I might add. I even sifted the cocoa, flour, sugar and salt together :) |
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| Finished Cakes |
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And here is the final product. Now it's not the coloring I was going for. I want to add in the white and the red mouth etc, but this was mainly to get the cutting of the cake - which apparently I didn't take a picture of it before I frosted it. I also found out that the Pecan frosting is a bear to frost with, so I am going to try to find a brown butter frosting recipe I can use to get the coloring, or find a german chocolate frosting and just not put the nuts and coconut in it....at least I have time. There will at leave be another round of testing. and then I just have to figure out how to make a sheet cake :)
Here is the recipe for the
cake itself that I used and this is what I am trying to
make
Here is the recipe for the cake itself that I used and this is what I am trying to make
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4 comments:
Your cake cracked me up! I appreciated the link to what is was suppose to look like. I could definitely see it was a sock monkey after seeing that. I'll bet is tasted delicious!
I like the inspiration cake photo! :-) If you need to borrow some 9" pans (regular cake pans, not springform, so you won't have the leaking issue), you're welcome to mine. I have at least two of them. Also, if you want a good recipe for buttercream icing, let me know. You can then tint the icing the various shades you need and it ends up being a LOT cheaper than buying all of the cans from the store.
Thanks Cheri - I will let you know about the pans, we have a 10" and an 8" that don't leak and those might work out better. But do send me the buttercream recipe.
Hi there!
Yumm... IM craving cake now!
Love ur blog btw!
Angie
mylittleinspiration.blogspot.com
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