As I wrote last time, I reverted to cake mixes for Olivia's graduation cakes. My original intention was to have a very leisurely week - bake the white cakes a week early and put them in the freezer. Make the white icing early in the week, on Thursday, ice and decorate the white cakes, and then on Friday night bake the chocolate-cherry cakes.
Unfortunately, it was not a leisurely week... I did make all of the white icing early - on Monday. The kicker was finding out at my Tuesday appointment in Rochester that I needed to come back for tests on Wednesday and Thursday, being at Mayo by 7:30 a.m. each day. Reasonable people would probably just bite the bullet, go to Target for underwear and deodorant, and rent a motel room. If you know us at all, you know we don't fit into that category. So we "commuted" from Marshall to Rochester 3x, leaving home between 3-4 a.m.
On Wednesday, I came through the basement around 6:30 p.m. At 7, I turned on the faucet and realized that we were out of hot water. Terry thought I was nuts and went down the basement to a flood. "Bad water heater. No peeing in the house."
The new water heater didn't get installed until late Friday afternoon. So much for the best-laid plans. Now it was scramble-time. I got the white cakes crumb-coated and then saw an invitation from friends to go watch a movie in their backyard. Sounded fun - when you're schedule is shot, what's another few hours! So after watching "It's Complicated" in Kelly and Wendi's back yard, I came home and made the first cherry-chocolate cake. When it was finished, it was close to 2:30 a.m., so I didn't really feel like making the other one.
One note about cherry-chocolate cake - it's HEAVY! For a 12x18 cake, there are 3 cake mixes and 60 oz. of pie filling. After making the one on Friday night, I made Terry mix the other one on Saturday morning.
B&S came by with the girls just before Steve came to pick up the cakes. As I went into the kitchen to get the last one, I noticed a hand print in the side - not sure if it was from a 3-year-old or a 17-month-old, not that it matters much! I felt horrible, but I guess Olivia just kind of pushed the frosting back in place and it was none the worse for wear. Terry and I could tell when we went to the reception, but other people might have overlooked it.
Rave reviews on the cakes from the attendees at the reception. I'm hoping that Carolyn can provide me with some photos.
Today I made sour cream cupcakes because I had sour cream in the fridge and wanted to try that recipe. Also, we have about 6 kinds of leftover frosting in the fridge. May as well get rid of some. I liked this recipe, but I'm not sure if I can compare cupcakes to a layer cake, the texture is too different. It's definitely a recipe worth remembering, though.
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