so i promised phillie like 2 months ago i will make this beautiful cake for her for her an toety for their birthday party, this saturday pass. theme, rainbow, and the recipe for this cake magically appeared on the martha stewart website around the same time. looked somewhat difficult to make in the video, but hey! i'm up for challenges.
the word "challenge" is an understatement. the easy part was the baking part. like always, i nearly pulled out my hair doing the frosting. thank god for sandra. decided it will be less stressful for me to bake this cake with a industrial kitchenaid. i have to give myself a pat on the back for that. think if i used my hand held mixer, i will still be making the cake now.
6 colors later, while waiting for the cake to cool, i started on the filling and crumb coat. singapore is so humid the frosting sank after the butter went in. so we starred at the kitchenaid beat the frosting for like 30 minutes before it reached a okay consistency. we braved it and threw it into the fridge for like an hour.
while waiting for the cake to hold together, i started on the frosting, again it started to sink after the butter was added, then the clever me had an idea. i took ice, threw them into a ziplock, held it til my hands under the metal mixing bowl, lost feeling for awhile and viola!!!! the frosting not only rose but to an amazing consistency! yay! you would think.... errr.... no! we took the crumb coated cake out and it started to reject the frosting!
but with sandra and my perseverance, with her knowledge of frosting and my "sure can" attitude we finally finished making the cake at 1130 midnight with phillie waiting downstairs for like an hour. moral of the story, we still got the cake made! yay!!!!
phillie added some pretty colorful stars on them and we have a rainbow birthday cake, inside and out!
