Tomorrow marks the last Monday that I will have to work until September 7th....so, I'm throwing my kids students a party to celebrate. (I'm trying to get better at calling my kids in my class, my students and my kids, well, my kids.)
I saw this cake on this website and thought I'd give it a try. My kids students have been through a lot more than the typical class this year and I wanted to reward them. My long-term sub and I are buying them pizza for lunch and I made the dessert.
Let's set the record straight. I'm not a baker. I wish I was. I can follow a recipe very well, but I am not a baker. A baker tries to create their own recipes. A baker understands how ingredients will react with one another. MckMama is a baker. Her recipes always seem to work. I am not a baker.
I was very nervous to try this cake.
I bought two white cake mixes and had everything else I needed at home. I started the night before by mixing the cake mix, making the colored layers and cooking the cakes. I think I mis-measured the yellow layer, it was a bit smaller than the others!
I made butter cream frosting and then folded in a tub of cool whip to make it a little less sweet and also to help cover the cake...the cake is 6 layers!
I put a little bit of frosting on the cake platter to make the cake stick...
Trimmed the purple layer (it's purple...but looks like black in the picture.)
More trimming...more frosting.
All 6 layers! Looks good enough to eat! (But my red layer looks more like pink!)
The cake and the trimmings...
Started to frost...hmmm, the trimmings are dissapearing!
I found the culprit!
Nik likes the extra frosting!
The cake looks delicious! I can't wait until my kids students cut into it tomorrow!
This picture just shows you how tall this cake is! I had to take a shelf out of my fridge!
I'll post pictures of the cake tomorrow with the kids...I can't wait to see their faces when we cut it!
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