I need that Cake Boss guy. You know the one from that show where they make cakes in the shape of the Startrek Enterprise or barbie doll? I'm a little stressed right now because I am making the cake for a bridal shower this afternoon. Usually my cakes and plain old fashioned vanilla or chocolate with a good smearing of buttercream icing and a swoosh on the top made with a butter knife. Not today. I ventured into the land of pale peach cabbage roses. First they looked lovely with a soft flower on the creamy cake background. Then, I was looking on the Internet and saw a suggestion to fill in the "gaps" with a swoosh of icing. Which I did, and hated it. I scraped it off leaving what looked like finger swirls around the roses. I whipped up another batch of icing and made a fresh swirl around existing roses and now it's looking like too much....(see last photo). Oh dear! What to do? It's 100F here today, and we all know that butter cream melts faster than a menopausal woman on a hot day, so I'm going to leave it well enough alone. Inside is 4 layers of alternating peach and cream colored cake. I'm hoping the inside looks better than the out....it's also drizzling now, the shower is to be held outside. A song keeps coming into my head...that old Richard Harris song......Someone left the cake out in the rain....I don't think that I can take it.....it took so long to make it......................................
