In Which I Swiftly And Utterly Destroy A Cake Layer
Decorating By prterrell Updated 27 Aug 2009 , 5:06pm by Williamus
Thought I'd post about a recent goof on my part. Yes, even we experienced bakers can totally mess up! 
Last week I made my father's birthday cake. My father loves chocolate, especially dark chocolate, so I made him my Chocolate Overload, which is two layers of dark chocolate devil's food with a dark chocolate brownie in between, dark chocolate sour cream ganache filling, and chocolate IMBC frosting, with more of the ganache spread in a thin layer on the top of the buttercream on the top of the cake.
I had just taken two beautifully baked layers of scratch cake out of the oven and they had rested the requisite 10 minutes in the pans. I had my cooling racks set up on my kitchen counter. I depanned the one layer -- perfection. I depanned the second layer, and as I lifted the pan from the turned-out cake, I managed to hit the pan on the bottom of the upper cabinet, knocking it out of my hands and into the still-warm layer of cake splitting it into half a dozen chunks! 
Hubby and I snacked on fractured cake whilst I baked again and now we have a spare cake layer in the freezer for when I need an emergency dessert. Final cake turned out perfect and made the 8-hour ride from Atlanta to Raleigh intact and delicious.
Okay, can I say that sounds BEYOND delicious! I'm not a chocoholic, but I sure appreciate a good cake combo. And I absolutley LOVE sour cream ganache. And I can so sympathize. I was almost done making all my cake layers for 3 different cakes, last layer in the oven, but my DUMB SELF had them cooloing on a glass table top. I put a real large roll of heavy foil on the end, there goes the table cracking in half, losing half my layers!. Needless to say I was up until 5 am redoing the ones I lost. talk about hurt.
Oh dang it!
But wow it sounds like a wonderful cake.
Glad to hear it wasn't a total loss! And sorry I wasn't there to help you eat it!!!!!! Cake sounds DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Wow. I'm a definite chocaholic--especially (well...only) dark chocolate. That almost sounds like too much.
I think I'll need to try it.
Thought I'd post about a recent goof on my part. Yes, even we experienced bakers can totally mess up!
Yay - as a sleep deprived mother I am forever doing things like this. Will remember this post next time I "Have a moment!" 
prterrel, i would love to see a pic of that cake sliced. it sounds sinfully delicious!
Okay, can I say that sounds BEYOND delicious! I'm not a chocoholic, but I sure appreciate a good cake combo. And I absolutley LOVE sour cream ganache. And I can so sympathize. I was almost done making all my cake layers for 3 different cakes, last layer in the oven, but my DUMB SELF had them cooloing on a glass table top. I put a real large roll of heavy foil on the end, there goes the table cracking in half, losing half my layers!. Needless to say I was up until 5 am redoing the ones I lost. talk about hurt.
This made me giggle. Did the table itself crack in half?! I think it is too cute that you were worried about the layers of cake and not the table! 
(my smiley faces quit working!)
prterrel, i would love to see a pic of that cake sliced. it sounds sinfully delicious!
Unfortunately, I was too busy slicing and handing out pieces to my greedy little nephews at the time to think about photographing the cake. I'll def. photog. the next one!
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