A funny thing happened on my way to relocating my blog from Typepad to WordPress: I found a few old posts that I had started, but never finished. They were just hanging out in the blogosphere black hole, waiting for someone to care. Upon finding them, I felt like a deadbeat blogger. Sorry, guys.
So today's post might be viewed by some (we'll call you the glass-is-half-empty-Debby-Downer-set) as a bit of a cop-out. First of all, I originally created this cake over a year ago for a friend's son. Second, the post doesn't include a new recipe, rather a re-post of one of my most popular and most (as the title implies) favorite recipes: my Favorite, Most Reliable, and Oh-So-Versatile Chocolate Cake Recipe.
To the rest of you (who we will call the glass-is-half-full-Peggy-Pleasant-set), new content is new content......even old new content. Plus, if you are a newer reader, it will give you yet another chance to print out and try this so-awesome-that-it-shoud-be-called-McAwesome cake recipe. Speaking of printing, one of the benefits of moving to WordPress has been all of the fantastic plug-ins (accessories to bling up your blog) that are available. One of my favorites is called ZipList, which formats my recipe, making it pretty and printable at the same time. So far, it has worked like a charm. Highly recommend.
On to the cake. Every once in awhile, I am asked to make a themed cake for someone's child/spouse/self. For some reason I rarely say "no", even if I have no idea what the theme is or how I am going to complete said cake. My commitment always leads to hours scouring the Internet for ideas.
This cake's theme was "something Star Wars" for 6-year old Dom. I have been making Dom's brithday cakes since his Fire Truck Cake in 2009 (which turned into an all-nighter project.) My original idea was to make an R2D2 cake. While attempting to shape the cake into a robot, I realized, in fact, that I am not the Ace of Cakes. Not. Even. Close. The cake looked nothing like R2D2, and I had flashes of it eventually ending up on Cake Wrecks, the kiss of death for cake decorators.
So, with time ticking away, I went for a bit simpler design, incorporating the hand-piped logo, cupcakes and custom sugar cookies, finishing with about 5 minutes to spare so that I could deliver it covered in blue and black White Chocolate Buttercream. I was relieved to hear that Dom was very happy with the final design and that everyone was happy with the taste of the cake (but I wasn't concerned about that!!
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GiGi Eats Celebrities
OMG YOU MADE THIS! That is incredible! You have some mad skill. You should be on one of those cake shows on the Food Network! 😉
Julie @ Peanut Butter and Julie
Thank you, Gigi! How nice of you to say that. This wasn't my best, but at least I got it done in time!!