Trippy Cake Tuesday, March 24, 2009
I have to admit I'm very proud of this cake, if only for it's eye popping decorating job(even though it's not as perfect as I wanted it to be). My coworker had a major birthday today and he absolutely loves M&Ms, has a bag of them every afternoon. He's also a big fan of southern cooking so I made the cake red velvet with cream cheese frosting.
I followed Smitten Kitchen's Red Velvet recipe with a couple of modifications...I only used two pans instead of the three she recommends. Also, I definitely doubled the frosting recipe (omitting one cup of sugar- so 5 cups instead of 6).
The decorating took about a bag and half of M&Ms (the medium size bag). Be forewarned though, those bastards at Mars didn't put in equal amounts of each color. My bags where disproportionately heavy on the orange and blue M&Ms, and light on the rest of the colors which made the decorating a bit more tricky.
On the whole it was a resounding success, everyone was super in love with it and tons of compliments and such. Unfortunately my stomach wasn't playing nice and was being a cranky bastard so I didn't have any. Then again, I'm not much of a sweets person even though I have a raging baking addiction.
Labels: Awesomeness, food, photos
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3 Comments:
At March 25, 2009 1:33 PM,
Lincoln said…
Ahem....it is my birthday tomorrow. (hint, hint, hint)
At March 26, 2009 5:23 PM,
Hillary said…
this cake is amazing
At March 28, 2009 11:45 AM,
Stacy said…
That's about the cutest cake ever I think!
PS- I stole your idea to make a cookbook for your (my) grandma. I meant to fess up before hand, but forgot. Anyway- great idea- it's a hit :)
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