Cake

Cake Decorating Day

We had a Cake decorating day! Believe it or not, all these mixers on this counter are mine… Okay, well technically the blue one is my mom’s and the gray one is the hubs. The black one is a spare one we have and I don’t own one anymore… I sold mine. But still… They are all mine. They were all transported to Deb’s house via my truck. Okay fine… hubby’s truck. Geez… lol

It all started with Tracy and me discussing Russian decorating tips and the fact that I took cake decorating classes back in like 2008. Then the day stemmed from there. Back in December, she mentioned she heard that I took classes and wondered if I could help her. Of course. Then she said she had Russian tips. I’d never heard of those. Turns out, they are just bigger tips. I can’t say I’m totally crazy about them…. but that’s just my opinion. From there we decided to get together and play with decorating cakes. But it turned into a party.

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PW’s Chocolate Cake Recipe

When we decided to have a cake decorating day, I decided maybe I should make my cake ahead of time so that we weren’t waiting on mine to bake. Good thought, right? We had access to two ovens, and there were going to be at least 3 of us that I knew about and possibly four. Turns out, there were four so it was a good thing I baked mine ahead of time. When I showed up that morning we baked Deb’s off real fast, then the other two baked about the same time. It worked out perfectly.

So I was trying to decide, box cake mix or from scratch? From scratch won. Then I debated what type of cake I wanted to make. This is when I decided, Chocolate. Then I had to decide, what chocolate cake recipe to use…

 

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