birfday surprise!
So I wanted to make a cake.
Hmmm... Well, I know Lauren loves chocolate. So should I go the normal chocolate route, or something more like a "dark" chocolate or even a "fudge" type taste? Alas, this was a choice I could not make. Therefore I did it all. I made one dark chocolate fudge cake, topped with Hershey chocolate icing, then a chocolate devils food cake, topped with Pillsbury fudge icing. Then I put one atop the other and filled in all gaps with more fudge. It looked delicious and tooth-hurty.
Now here's the durpy "oh that Brian" move. Knowing we wouldn't cut into it until much later, I sought a cake platter w/ top. Now, as with most dishes, leftover or otherwise, food goes in the bowl and the lid follows. I'm looking at this deep cake dish wondering how to get it inside whilst avoiding the massive edges best I can. After several minutes I finally finagled it. Then I began to add the lid.
...
Oh. It's a cake platter. These were designed to have the cake rest on the FLAT part (the section I assumed was the lid), with the deeper section being the top. It makes perfect sense and should therefore be idiot proof. Hah hah- provedthatwrong*cough*
Well, now the cake is firmly secured within these plastic walls, and will not be removed except in pieces. I hope only that the thought is what matters in this case, and not the execution.
*sigh*
Hmmm... Well, I know Lauren loves chocolate. So should I go the normal chocolate route, or something more like a "dark" chocolate or even a "fudge" type taste? Alas, this was a choice I could not make. Therefore I did it all. I made one dark chocolate fudge cake, topped with Hershey chocolate icing, then a chocolate devils food cake, topped with Pillsbury fudge icing. Then I put one atop the other and filled in all gaps with more fudge. It looked delicious and tooth-hurty.
Now here's the durpy "oh that Brian" move. Knowing we wouldn't cut into it until much later, I sought a cake platter w/ top. Now, as with most dishes, leftover or otherwise, food goes in the bowl and the lid follows. I'm looking at this deep cake dish wondering how to get it inside whilst avoiding the massive edges best I can. After several minutes I finally finagled it. Then I began to add the lid.
...
Oh. It's a cake platter. These were designed to have the cake rest on the FLAT part (the section I assumed was the lid), with the deeper section being the top. It makes perfect sense and should therefore be idiot proof. Hah hah- provedthatwrong*cough*
Well, now the cake is firmly secured within these plastic walls, and will not be removed except in pieces. I hope only that the thought is what matters in this case, and not the execution.
*sigh*