Sometimes you make the wrong cake..

Last week was pretty  hectic. I felt like I was baking something every day! I had to bake a cake for my class at Joanne's on Monday and I also had an order over the weekend for 2 dozen cookies, 3 dozen cupcakes, and a star shaped cake. I hadn't ever done a large order like that where everything was needed for the same day, so needless to say I was pretty stressed. I make this pound cake that I really really love, it has cream cheese in it which makes it more dense and also a lot more moist than a regular cake. However, it takes an hour and twenty minutes to bake. Since I had to make a star cake I bought a star shaped pan and was just going to bake each layer separately. Understanding the time involved with this endeavor I baked the cake the day before I intended to frost it so that it would be nice and cool and ready to frost the next day.

I baked the cake on Thursday and was going to frost it on Friday so that I could deliver it on Saturday. I felt very proud of myself Thursday night and most of Friday morning until I realized that I had screwed up royally. During my lunch time at work I realized that I was supposed to make a MARBLE cake, but I had made a yellow cake. I was completely panicked for the rest of the day trying to figure out how I would have time to make frosting, color fondant, bake and frost cupcakes, paint some sugar cookies silver (using petal dust mixed with vanilla), AND spend 3 hours baking a delicious marble pound cake.

I figured out a way. And that way meant staying up until 3am and making several powdered sugar runs to Walmart.

The lesson? Review the order that you wrote down on that little slip of paper and stuck on your refrigerator before you start baking cakes. Oh, and try to include ALL of your ingredients in the price that you give to your customer so you don't end up spending $30 more than you actually charged for the order....

Here are some pictures. It was for an 8th grade graduation celebration, and the colors are the colors of the school.

And for the sake of remaining a real human to my 5 lovely blog followers (who actually already know me quite well and probably know how I live my life...), here are some pictures of what happens to my house when I have a giant order due.

This is my poor kitchen. You can see the main mess, but you can't see the satanic film of powdered sugar that is coating every surface.

This is my work station. I kept losing things while I was working...