I finished the Barney Birthday cake that I made for a little girl turning two.
I have to see it was an experiance in the least. I made the Royal icing flows about a week ahead to make sure they would work and not break when dried - those were fine. The cakes took for 4 boxes of mix and baking 4 seperate cakes as I have a small oven and I didn't want to put 2 cake mixes in the pan as I didn't know if it would over flow or not and how it would cook so I did it the slow way. My biggest problem was that my cakes are so moist that when I am trying to place them on the cake board they are always trying to crack on me
The number two was easy to cut out but broke in half and hade to be placed in tow pieces - good thing for icing to fix things! My icing that I had made a few days before was ok and I mixed it really well but when spreading it on the cake I saw a small dark blob of something, picked it off and took a tiny taste to see what it was and oh the taste was so horrible I had to rinse my mouth 4 or 5 times and drink some pop to get it out. I figured it was a small amount of coloring that hadn't mixed as the taste was bitter beyond this world 
I ended up scraping the icing off the cake even though the rest of the ising tasted fine, I didn't want to take any chances. Now I had to make some more icing. I went and bought 4 lbs of butter the other day and they were from a different store and a no name quality - big mistake
The first batch I made turned out lumpy and looked gross so I thought that maybe it was me and the butter wasn't softened enough before I started so I made another batch but it happened again, the butter kept getting tuny clumps and would not turn smooth
I went out and boght my normal name brand butter and had no problems with that stuff. I now was ready to ice the cake and found that the number 2 was not going to be so easy to do and I ended up just doing the large star tip of the different colors and by now I was getting tired of doing the cake so i just threw the rest together. It turned out ok but not what I had envisioned so my next one will be better for sure 
I have to see it was an experiance in the least. I made the Royal icing flows about a week ahead to make sure they would work and not break when dried - those were fine. The cakes took for 4 boxes of mix and baking 4 seperate cakes as I have a small oven and I didn't want to put 2 cake mixes in the pan as I didn't know if it would over flow or not and how it would cook so I did it the slow way. My biggest problem was that my cakes are so moist that when I am trying to place them on the cake board they are always trying to crack on me
The number two was easy to cut out but broke in half and hade to be placed in tow pieces - good thing for icing to fix things! My icing that I had made a few days before was ok and I mixed it really well but when spreading it on the cake I saw a small dark blob of something, picked it off and took a tiny taste to see what it was and oh the taste was so horrible I had to rinse my mouth 4 or 5 times and drink some pop to get it out. I figured it was a small amount of coloring that hadn't mixed as the taste was bitter beyond this world I ended up scraping the icing off the cake even though the rest of the ising tasted fine, I didn't want to take any chances. Now I had to make some more icing. I went and bought 4 lbs of butter the other day and they were from a different store and a no name quality - big mistakeThe first batch I made turned out lumpy and looked gross so I thought that maybe it was me and the butter wasn't softened enough before I started so I made another batch but it happened again, the butter kept getting tuny clumps and would not turn smooth
I went out and boght my normal name brand butter and had no problems with that stuff. I now was ready to ice the cake and found that the number 2 was not going to be so easy to do and I ended up just doing the large star tip of the different colors and by now I was getting tired of doing the cake so i just threw the rest together. It turned out ok but not what I had envisioned so my next one will be better for sure 
