I have no idea how to create gifs, but Bo Yin had this to say about her creations:
Well, Bo Yin, my birthday cake came out as good as can be expected from a girl who, even though she worked in a bakery for a year, never learned to decorate cakes with any skill at all.
It's just a Duncan Hines cake mix with some coffee extract added. It's frosted with a grocery store brand of icing (I recently discovered that HEB's Hill Country Fare chocolate icing is REALLY good!) but I turned it into a tort by cutting each of the two layers in half to make a four layer cake (best done if the cake layers are first frozen or, at least, partially frozen) and putting icing and ground walnuts in between each layer. I wish I'd had some gold sprinkles to add to the ground walnuts I scattered on the cake, I think gold sprinkles would have been really pretty. Nigella Lawson combines ground nuts and gold sprinkles and the effect is really beautiful. I used almost three cans of icing!
That chocolate torte looks so good! Congrats on your award :)
ReplyDeleteThe cake did look good but I threw over half of it away. I'd used the wrong frosting entirely (learned that the hard way). It was just too too too much. Cheap and gross. Blech. I didn't care, I wanted a cake on my birthday and I wanted it fast!
ReplyDeleteThe award, however, I adore!