Each year I bake cakes for the kids birthdays.
This year my daughter asked for Doctor Who. I obliged.
Look! I cleaned!
Now I can start the REAL work. I've already preheated the oven.
This HAS to be done by tomorrow. That means a late Friday night tonight.
What? Don't judge me! This is what it takes! I'm sure the #Doctor would agree.
No custard here though.
The Chocolate Half is in the oven. Now I had to use a different pan because I had no 9x13's. Someone absconded with them. So I used the roasting pan that came with the new gas oven. This may be a better solution although I am not sure if this may rise too high. We'll see. I do want some bubbles so I only banged it twice instead of really thumping it to make it dense.
Ok, it's high, but I don't think it's TOO high. It certainly hasn't overflowed the pan, it's still got a shape and hasn't fallen miserably. I just have to convince everyone to be QUIET!!! in the kitchen.
Chocolate half DONE.
ALRIGHHHHHHHT. It turned out BEAUTIFUL. I am so glad the baking force is still with me. Double box method in a roasting pan and it's light, spongy, baked in a half hour, didn't overflow and smells great!
The bad thing is... I only have one roasting pan. I have to wait for this to cool sufficiently so I can get it out of the pan, wash the pan, and start the vanilla half of the cake.
Why yes, that is a box of wine behind the cake, and I am partaking.
Trivia: Did you know the Gallo winery in California stores their wines in MILLION gallon tanks? It's true.
Chocolate cake fully cooled and the top evened by cutting it with a greased string.
The vanilla cake is the same so I won't show pictures of that until the two cakes come together. The vanilla is cooling in the fridge now.
Oh what's this then? I love this!
Chocolate and vanilla have come together in harmony. (mostly, except for that tiny slice in the middle that I am SO not worried about. yes, I had to slice off a bit of the top of the chocolate because it baked up much fluffier than the white cake did. No one will notice once the fondant goes on so ssshhhhh!
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Marshmallow fondant.
Coloring next.
Swirly blue just like I wanted! :D
Rolling fondant, even marshmallow fondant takes real effort.
A normal rolling pin does NOT cut it for this job.
Covered, but even as fast as I tried to work the fondant got dry and cracked a bit.
I'll deal with that later.
Windows! Not 95. No not 7 either.
These windows are special.
Doors and a bow tie. Because bow ties are cool.
Don't. Blink.
This is what I did with the crack. Prisoner Zero has escaped!
5a.m. Saturday - DONE!
In the end I completed the cake. My fondant DID run dry finally and I did not get the piping around all the bottom edges done, but here it is, my daughters completed birthday cake :)
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