It was not my plan to blog constantly but I heard the best baking story ever. I have a friend who was not a baker but wanted to make a cake for her mother. We chatted about it. I offered some hints. She told me she was making a layer cake. Did she have to refridgerate it? What about other options?
I saw her today and she told me the cake was a disaster. She said (with humor) that I could have told her that you can make an 8 layer cake. Yes. She baked 8 full-sized layers (not sliced to make layers but FULL-SIZED) and tried to stack them! Physics tells us this probably will NOT work. I have to say that having been to the leaning tower of Pisa, I found this funny.
I had my own disaster last year the morning of my daughter's 2nd birthday because the Betty Crocker cookbook didn't list water as an ingredient in the cake. As many cakes as I've baked you'd think that I could have READ the entire recipe.
So, two pieces of advice: Do not try to pile a whole bunch of layers like they do in the movies (think Sleeping Beauty) AND read the entire recipe...
Good baking.
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