I had only two hours to make a cake for my sons teachers. They have been so supportive to my son who is in 5th grade and had to repeat the 4th. He has barely passed for years and suffers with ADHD. We got his report card yesterday and he made straight A's!
I wanted to send them a thank you cake so I decided last minute to make this.
I had to bake and decorate in 2 hours time! I would have liked it to be better but am happy with the turn out considering what happend.
First I tried an extended cake mix recipe. I have never done this and honestly (no offense to anyone) I like the scratch recipes better. The cake was very very very soft and the layers fell apart after torting them.
I made the buttercream with the 1/2 shortening 1/2 butter recipe, I must say I really like the way it spreads.
I was going to make a filling and realized I had no cream and no time to go to the store so I ended up adding raspberry preserves to part of the buttercream in order to use it as a filling. It was soooo sweet. Still is but maybe they will like it. I personally don't like raspberry at all and that could have clouded my judgement.
Ok I filled the layers and put it together piecing my layers that fell apart.
I iced the cake and put it in the fridge to crust. I did not have time to crust as well as I would have liked.
In the meantime I made a little apple from fondant.
Then I took the cake to ice it. Went pretty well but still was having crumb issues. I couldn't take too much time though.
I wrote Thank You on the cake in red buttercream, all seemed well. I was going to put the apple the cake. It was still very wet from being painted with the gel color mixed with vanilla. What happens???
I dropped the apple!!!! It landed right on the TH of Thank You! So now I have a big red round spot on my cake and the TH is crushed. I had to scarpe off the Thank and try to reice. It was not the best patchwork but the best I could do in 10 minutes.
I rewrote Thank and left my apple where it landed.
All in all I am happy with the way it turned out in the rush and disaster I had.
The teachers and staff at the elementary was thrilled and loved it though!
Two hours! That's amazing!
Congratulations to your son for his achievement. I went through that with my step-son And my son - it sure wasn't easy.
Theresa 
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