People have asked me 'oooh free time!! What do you do with it?? Answer? Have stupid ideas and turn them into a reality.
It's not great; even I can see that, as a painter, I make an excellent accountant. But, he's going to love it. And I've had a really nice few Thursday afternoons alone painting it.
In other news; the cake.
For Connors birthday, we had a little 'invite some friends over (i.e. my girlfriend with her 3 kids) and we'll have a party'. Because the oldest is Riley, I thought 'you know, I should make a cake for them. I've already got one sorted for the family thing; maybe I should just whip together a dinosaur mudcake. They'll lurrvveee that'.
So, I did. Big mistake was made pretty early on. The receipe (because, I made it from scratch) said 'put one 450g block of chocolate and a ton of butter in a saucepan and melt'. Cool. So, I did that.
Before reading Step #2 - I put all the fatty chocolatey mixture into the dry ingredients. Then I read; 'Put HALF of this heart attack inducing stuff into the cake - the rest is for the icing you dumbass'
Ooops. I should've ditched the cake at that point. Precisely that point. But, nooo.
Think 'meh. It's a cake. It's chocolate. They are chocolate sucking vampire-children. I'll cook it and deal with the fallout'.
Except chocolate, when there is too much of it, won't go HARD in the oven will it?? Nope, FYI, it BOILS.
Get cake out. Stick cake in fridge for a day. Still not hard. Ok, you stupid cake, in the freezer you go.
Got it at least half frozen, so I can at least cut it into a semblance of a dinosaur. Ice cake with butter icing (hence the reason for me not even considering the chocolate for the icing) and bung it back in the freezer.
Get it out;
I can't get it off the plate.
It is so damn fudge like, it's STUCK to the plate.
Apparently, it tasted wonderfully. Me? If I ever eat chocolate again, please kill me. The amount of mess even touching this sludgy excuse for a cake was astounding. I am suprised that there was enough to turn into a dinosaur.
The real cake? The original cake that I had planned to make and executed perfectly??
Perfect. And he whacked it good.
4 comments:
That racing track is awesome! Love the dino cake too :)
Both cakes look awesome - the car track too!
LOL - loving the cakes. And you are a budding Ken Done! Hidden talents all round! Well done. I miss you! Shame I don't have an artiste near by to help me make my spare time dreams a reality!
I read this a few days ago and had a good giggle over the cake at your expense, I'll admit! But now I can see the photos (they wouldn't load prior) that dinosaur is excellent! Bloody good save!
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