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March 27, 2005

Kitty Cake

So it is the twins' birthday today and they are six. One requested a Gingerbread Man cake and the other requested a kitty. My mom has taken on the Gingerbread Man, and I... the cat.

Be scared.

Here are the directions I'm working with:

And here is the cake progression (click for a larger pic):

Here is the cake after I cut the different pieces out. What a mess. I made the mistake of making it moist (first stoopid idea of mine), then of putting the white chocolate chips in it (second stoopid mistake). These two things made it much harder to manipulate and cut.

Here is the cake with frosting (which was a nightmare since the moist cake was crumbling and resisting to my trying to keep it together - the jerk). The tail and ears were the worst.

And here is the cake in all its finished glory. The twins insisted on drawing the whiskers on. We bought a big tube of black frosting stuff and didn't realize until we were ready to use it that you were supposed to buy some CAKE TIP to screw on and make it usable. Stupid, I say. Why can't the tip come with the dang tube? So we used a plastic bag with a small hole cut off the tip. Not that it would have made a difference anyway...

Yeah. Even the cat looks like it is saying, "Oh my goodness, do not even look at me. I know, I know."