Santa stop here

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Pictures as promised


Here are the pics of my birthday cake.  It tasted yummy even if it didn't look it so much.  I need input from you baking pros so I can do better next time around.  I baked lemon cake (Duncan Hines lemon supreme to be exact) and then lined the cake pan with plastic wrap and "spread" softened vanilla bean ice cream in the pan.  I covered it with another layer of plastic wrap and returned it to the freezer for several hours.  I leveled one layer of my cake then layered the ice cream between the layers of cake and attempted to frost the cake with buttercream frosting.  You can see that it didn't spread on all that smoothly on the sides and then the ice cream began to melt and that really messed up the frosting effort.  I stuck the whole thing back in the freezer for a spell while I contemplated how to make the cake look presentable.  I tried slathering a bit more buttercream on the sides but it just wasn't meant to go on smoothly.  I quick piped a border, added sprinkles (what's ice cream and cake without sprinkles?!) and piped Happy Birthday with the bright blue frosting leftover from my cousin's cake last week.  Ta-da!  Surely, there must be a frosting specifically for ice cream cakes--maybe something a little lighter than buttercream like a whipped cream frosting?  The cold buttercream was a bit too rich, in my opinion.  If anyone has any suggestions or tips I'd love for you to share them!
You might have noticed the six candles.  For all of you mathematicians out there:  4 represented the tens place and 2 the ones place!

15 comments:

  1. That cake looks DEEEELICIOUS!!! And I love how you broke the candles down by their place value! What a great idea!!! It looks like you had a Happy, happy Birthday Eastlyn! You deserve it! Now send me over a slice of cake okay???

    ReplyDelete
  2. I have always wanted to try to make an ice cream cake, so far i've not done it because it seems so hard.

    happy belated birthday

    ReplyDelete
  3. Happy belated birthday, Eastlyn! I wish I could give suggestions about making ice cream cake, but my last effort with it didn't turn out so good. Yours at least stayed together - and I thought from the 1st picture that you bought it at a store. Good job!

    ReplyDelete
  4. You can mail leftovers over to my house- :) looks fabulously yumm-o!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Hi Eastlyn, Dropping to say hello..

    A nice blog and Happy belated birthday...
    That cake looks yummylicious...

    just become your follower

    Bye for now
    Claire

    ReplyDelete
  6. Happy Belated Birthday Eastlyn. I knew we had a lot in common--I'm a Libra too. I love your cake, but next time the kiddos and hubby have to try making one for you!

    ReplyDelete
  7. Yummy Cake!! Happy Birthday!! Looks like you did a great job! But I agree...have the hubby put his chef hat on next time ;-)

    ReplyDelete
  8. Happy belated birthday, Eastlyn! Just a huntch, but... are you 42? ;) I'm not a professional cake-maker, but I'd say that cake looks beautiful; good job!

    P.S. Just wanted to remind you that this Friday, October 1st, is the next Inspiring Story link party... hope to see you there!

    God bless,
    ~Miss S.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Delicious Eastlyn! Now I want some cake! I hope you are doing great! Have a super night!

    Mama Hen

    ReplyDelete
  10. Hey Eastlyn, I was a Girl Scout but I do not remember that song. I hope you are doing great! Now I would like some cake again! It really looks yummy! Have a great night my friend!

    Mama Hen

    ReplyDelete
  11. Ok ... so the ONLY THING wrong with this cake is that I CAN'T TAKE A BITE of it from here!!!! It looks yummyyyyy! (Just had to get that out!) Now, to business . . . HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY! And, THANK YOU so much for leaving the lovely comment on my blog! I've so enjoyed my "nest" day at Mama Hens! It's been awesome meeting so many great people, and I'm happy to include you in the list! (p.s. I was a girl scout and TOTALLY remember this song! I'll be singing it all night now!) ;)

    ReplyDelete
  12. Happy Belated Eastlyn! Seriously was your b-day the 25th, my Mom's was the 25th, lucky day I guess. Kuddos for baking your own cake. I like to cook but baking is not my forte so no advice here. It still looks great though!

    ReplyDelete
  13. What do you mean it doesn't look yummy? I had to stop myself from licking the screen!! x

    ReplyDelete