Wednesday 10 September 2008

What lies beneath?

This cake may look normal, if not spectacular. Things however are not as they seem, beneath the thick layer of cream cheese icing hides a secret. You see when I took the cake out of the oven it looked great, so I set it aside and left it to cool. I returned a few minutes later to check on my cake and aargh! there was a huge crater in the middle, my cake had collapsed! I don't know how it happened but the middle was still raw even though I checked it earlier.
After a bit of a panic I sliced it in half, cut out the raw cake, pieced it back together and slathered it in icing!
In the end it looked OK and still tasted good and I am very, very thankful for icing!

7 comments:

Laura Paterson said...

Eeeek - I have just started baking regularly (wait for the blog update!!) and I live in fear that this will happen! Good rescue job though!

Christine said...

Icing definitely is a life-saver! This reminds me of the time I made a cheesecake, left it out to cool, and went out. I forgot to cover it, so my cat jumped on the counter and licked the top. I successfully scraped a thin layer off, but it looked pretty bad so I covered it with a sour cream topping and it worked out in the end.

Sylvie said...

That's exactly what icing and icing sugar are there for. I don't know how many times I have used them to hide minor and more major disasters!

Abitofafoodie said...

Icing does indeed hide a multitude of sins. I've done exactly this on several occasions!
Looks absolutely delicious though and lovely and moist - nothing worse than a dry cake.

Alicia Foodycat said...

Cream cheese frosting makes everything good.

Sam said...

Kittie: Luckily it doesn't happen very often! I'll keep an eye on your blog, I'm looking forward to seeing what you've baked.

Christina: Haha! I know exactly how that feels, my cat's helped himself to other people's dinners often enough!

Sylvie: Icing is certainly useful. good job it tastes nice too!

Antonia: the cake was really nice once I'd removed the raw bit!

Foodycat: Exactly!

Nic said...

I think I love icing nearly as much as the cake part - good rescue Sam!