Isabel's Party Supplies

Well, this was MY party supply. Chilled vodka.
I started my enchilada sauce at 4a.m. Slowly cooking, at this point it was almost 6am. This was no problem but intimidating being the big secret family recipe n' all. Also first time I'd made it.

All the cakes baked (sorry a bit out of order) At this point, I was sighing with relief.

My challenge. The cake batter. This recipe is for white butter cake. It's very

complicated, time consuming and requires detailed temps. I also took a huge risk of not just doubling, but doing it x5. I know there's a lot of recipes that can't even be doubled, so the risk was do I save myself an entire day OR do it x5 and maybe have to run to the store and buy boxed cake? I'll run that risk.

I did however ruin my egg whites the first time around. Those are always kinda challenging for me. It's such a delicate balance of warmed egg whites, baking powder and sugar. Any of the latter not added correctly or clumping together will break your whites, or cause them to seperate. Adding the sugar too fast will cause your whites to not form stiff peaks. Not paying attention to this will cause your cake to deflate. Again, having all this x5, big risk.

So I started my egg whites again which put me behind a bit. They have to be a perfect room temp and so waiting for these to be ready set me back about an hour. I also ran out of frosting right before midnight. I didn't want to run the blenders that late so I called it quits for the night and went to bed. I was up at 3:30a.m. the next morning and started on my sauce, my tortillas, and the building of the cake.

The tortillas were easy, but time consuming as this was a recipe that could not be doubled. I was only get about 6 tortillas out of each batch and did about 12 batches. I had a hard time rolling them to be large, so had many different sized tortillas, but hey, they rolled just fine and were just as good.

Isabel's little cake.

One of the many dishes of rolled enchiladas. I also made Spanish Rice with probably the easiest recipe ever, only taking 23 minutes per batch. I felt these went well and am glad I didn't ruin any of it.

Isabel's main cake. Constructed carefully with straws. This had a strawberry puree filling mixed with buttercream frosting. It was very rich, and very moist. There was plenty of cake to go around and had a ton of leftovers.