The Cake, The Freeze

It sure is nice to sit down, I swear it's the first time in at least 4 days! Last Friday was baking day. With little ones around, at my feet, and looking for dirty beaters to lick clean, it took me until 11p.m. to get the entire cake baked. That included getting the tiers stacked ( but still separate from each other ) and crumb coated. 

Here is my first pile of sifted cake flour. This was for the bottom tier, white butter cream cake. 

I got to use my new spreader finally, I loved the feel of the spread but it did take some getting used to. So with every big project, comes anyones "nightmare" right? I had made my first batch of frosting. Half way through my second batch of frosting - my hand mixer that I've had for almost 12 years totally fried on me. If it had flesh, it would have twitched like a recently slaughtered chicken. There was no way I was whipping such a thick frosting by hand. So I ventured out at 6 o' clock on a Friday night looking for a hand mixer. Gretchens is closed. Dicks is closed. So then I drive all the way to Fred Meyer which had next to no selection so I bought the best one they had. 

I get home, get it out and continue to finish my batch of frosting. It's fastest speed was my old one's slowest speed. It took forever to make frosting from the beginning. But if that's the only disaster I had then I'd say the day went pretty darn good. I let the kids have the house and only fed them when they asked. I didn't pick up a single toy, clean up a single mess ( outside of the kitchen ) and I didn't even care. Everything seemed so smooth, so calm. I was more nervous for the next day and having to drive all the way into Machias without damaging the cake. I drove like a gramma and it was all fine - it was pouring in Snohomish and seriously windy in Skagit valley so between the wind and heavy rain, my hair was ruined in next to no time. 

The final product! I was going for a country made, intentionally imperfect, simplistic feel. With a lot of help from my sister - I think it came out good, I was happy with it! We played with flowers for a little bit and all agreed on this. 

Another view. The top tier is devils food cake with fruit filling. The bottom is traditional white butter cream cake, with a whipped fruit filling. The frosting is buttercream. 

So after the wedding, me and my little family went to my parents house just to visit.  As I was leaving the church to go into Monroe to grab food, I noticed it started to rain a little thicker than normal.  It was snowing!  It wasn't sticking anywhere, until after I picked up dinner and headed to my parents.  I took this picture a while after it stopped snowing, and mostly melted. I was frozen to the bone I felt, wearing sandals and a dress. I was a very happy girl when I got home and changed into my warmest sweats.