How To Eat Upside Down & Crumbling Cake...Sigh.

My "moist white cake" going into the oven.

A new recipe for chocolate frosting. First, it only made enough frosting to frost in between layers or do maybe 10 cupcakes, if that. Second, it was too sweet. So I modified the recipe by quadrupling the ingredients, but cutting out a lot of sugar. By doing so, I not only got enough to frost a 2 layer cake, but it actually tasted like chocolate frosting, not brown powdered sugar frosting. Score!

First time I've ever had a cake spill or overflow in the oven. Once I saw the huge mess on the bottom, I quickly threw some tin foil in there to help with the mess.

Here I added more melted down chocolate and butter into the small amount of already mixed frosting.

Carefully plotting out how much sugar to NOT use. One bit at a time and numerous taste tests later, success!

So here's the thing. These cakes would not come out of the pans...at all! Instead I had a pile of warm, crumbled, piled up white cake - that was nice n' moist. I didn't care too much because this was all an experiment for my daughter's birthday cake in August anyways. I have had some pretty bad results with white cake in the past and I'm determined to fix it. I greased and floured the pans pretty well, and I even added a bit of powdered sugar to the pan. Don't know what this was about, I just gave up thinking about it and moved on.

So when I tried to do the second one, I got the same thing. Now I'm just annoyed AND I have a messy kitchen. Is it too early for a shot of Kahlua?

So this is what you do; you spoon or fork a bit of frosting, then...

You grab a bit of cake...

And you take a bite and call it good.

In the end, with eyes closed, it's a good cake. But what went wrong with trying to get them out of the pans, I don't know that I will ever know. The frosting was just a bonus really. I plan on having cream cheese frosting for the birthday cake, a recipe I spent a long time working on and after about a year, I finally had the perfect mixture of sugar and cream cheese.

So do I add this to my white cake list of disaster? Do I make chocolate, devils food or german chocolate cake for Miss Bel or do I continue to be brave and hope one day I can come up with a cake I can actually present to other people? Gosh, life is tough isn't it? LOL