The Making & The Falling of the Cake

So anyone who knows me, knows I am far from domestic. I often have grandiose ideas, but lose interest about half way through its execution and give up. And really think it is easier to pay for most things than to try to make them.  For those reasons, everyone questioned my idea to making Boodle a pot of gold cake for his birthday. 

But determined I was, and I pushed on anyway.  The cake started out great

But if you look very closely at this picture, you will notice the lip of the pot on the right hand side is beginning to fall. The first chunk literally fell while I was taking the first picture. But I thought I made a smooth recovery when I just covered the fallen lip with a cascade of gold coins…

But then another lip fell, and another…

Ultimately, I ended up with about 3 inches of lip left, but luckily, that happened to be located right above the shamrock.  So in the end, perhaps others were right and my grandiose idea, was again, a bit too grandiose for my actual level of skill. But it still tasted great, made Boodle happy, and turned everyone’s teeth black.  Really, what more can you ask for in a cake?!  And now, we are already gearing up for Soren’s birthday cake!

P.S.  Greg, the competition is on!

B