I'm trying to make my first "official" cake today.

I've made plenty of cakes, mostly just the two-layer with frosting between them.. more for taste than show, though you try to make it look okay.

I'm making a cake with alternating thin layers of white and chocolate cake. Layered in between alternates between a raspberry buttercream mousse and chocolate buttercream. Over the top will be marzipan, with a little marzipan rose on the top.

Well, I line my cake pans with wax paper and then grease and flower the pan. I did it for my first chocolate layer, and just now I checked it to see if it was done.. one side of the waxed paper slipped and cut off part of the cake! So the cake is irregularly shaped now.. GR. I tried using the spray to keep the wax paper flush with the cake pan edge but I use silicon pans so I think the floppy-ness did in the poor thing.

I'm going to try to salvage it (this is a cake for my sweetie for Valentine's day).. But gr! it was going so well until the dumb lining had to come apart! I just hope it doesn't stick.

Hang in there -- and I bet you can fix it if anything does happen.

Good luck!

Sarah

Thankfully it didn't turn out too lopsided. May look a little funny but the marzipan should help somewhat with that (make it look even all around >.<

Welcome

Thank you!


Well I finally finished the cake (It's 3:21 am).

Because of the snowstorms here in CT, my final disaster was one that made me improvise quite a bit, since I can't run to the store later on to get more materials.

I've never worked with Marzipan before.. so I bought a few tubes of it at the store. It would have been enough, except that one entire tube was dry and solid and hard as a rock. I worked a lot of it into the soft tube, using water to help it soften up a bit, and I barely, BARELY had enough to JUST cover the cake.

The cake looks OKAY, but I dusted sugar over it to hide the ugly imperfections from the terrible marzipan. The marzipan rose on top looks pretty though, haha. I'll have to take a picture and show you all, just please.. don't laugh.

I don't think I'll be working with marzipan again though, needless to say. Perhaps I'll try rollable buttercream or fondant.. or a higher-quality marzipan. I looked online and found the brand I used (Odense) and it doesn't seem to have a lot of bad complaints about it. Maybe I just got a bad batch, the first roll wasn't that bad but that second hard roll.. ugh.

I'll be trying the cake tomorrow, hope it tastes okay.