Here’s my advice. If you are ever in a Hobby Lobby (or a Michael’s will do just as well) and you walk down the cake supply aisle and go, “Ohhhhh! A sunflower pan. I love sunflowers!”, just keep walking. Because if you buy the pan, you will surely choose to make the cake on a night when you are dead tired. You will go by the grocery store and buy the wrong ingredients. You will get home to find that you no longer have the ingredients you thought you had. You will end up with a really ugly cake, so you’ll go back to the store at midnight for more supplies to try to make it better. And it will be better, but it’ll still be ugly.
Furthermore, you’ll do all this on a night when your sink decides to back up not just into your house, but into Tim’s apartment. REALLY backs up. So that when he comes downstairs, he’ll find it overflowing HIS two sinks onto his kitchen floor.
This will not make him happy.
And it will make you ultimately throw all of your cake decorating bags and tips in the trash. But not the pan. And so far, not the cake. Though it’s tempting…
Not really a sunflower cake and who cares.
Looks pretty groovy to me, and delicious.
You’ll get to test that theory tomorrow night unless some hungry children from all over the world show up before then.
The word groovy is the perfect word for it…
Sorry about the sink, Tim.
Oh. So you’re the one who effed up my sink? I thought so.
Okay, I’m NOT sorry … effin’ up sinks is my hobby!
I looks loverly! I always use the rose bud pan that is totally impossible to frost. It’s amazing how well sprinkled powdered sugar with colored sugar highlights works.
I never have to brush crumbs off my cakes, but this one I should have. Also, the right frosting would have helped matters. But I didn’t have it, it was late, and I stopped caring.
Do you ever use the edible iridescent glitter?
“Do you ever use the edible iridescent glitter?”
Yes, but never on a cake.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist a punchline setup like that. Actually, I had never heard of edible iridescent glitter Now I’ll have to search it out.
I like it. It’s different and has character. I know I would eat it.
Giggle. “It’s different and has character” reminds me of nothing so much as the blind date set-up who “can move heavy furniture and makes all her own clothes.”
hahaha I didn’t think of the cake like that, but if it works…
I think it looks great. I’m betting it will taste great too.
I have a feeling it’s dry. My cakes are known for being (ew) moist, but I could tell last night when this one was baking that it intended to be trouble. I should have dumped it then.
I think it’s adorable. Kinda pop art graphic. And if it tastes good, who cares what it looks like.
I’m a little worried about the taste.
I must ask, now, later… how was it?
It TASTED excellent. Not at all dry, so I worried needlessly. One just had to close one’s eyes and…
No, no, I’m not going to make another joke about last call at the honky tonk.
cute.
very spring-y to me. even tho it’s not spring, it makes me smile.
You’re pointing and laughing, aren’t you? 😉
haha
no!
i read above that your cakes tend to be moist (you said it, not me), so i was drooling a little bit.
See, here are some of the cakes the freaking Wilton people say you can make with this pan. THEY are pointing and laughing. And they are drool-free.
really?
that’s what they say it should look like, eh? ok.
i have a cookie monster shaped pan looks like a great, fun cake, but it usually turns out just looking like a weird square-ish blob.
LOL, I might have a real talent for the weird square-ish blob cake!
i think it even came with plastic eyes to help out the decorationally challenged, but mine still ended up tardo.
well now that you have shown what it is suppose to look like…
Naw, I bet yours will be great! And it’s cute.
It looks good.
Any occasion for making it, other than you were in the mood?
My family is always lucky to get a boxed cake mix made in a 9×13 pan with tubbed frosting on top. (Is that a knock on your door? It could be MY hungry children, come to call.)
Yay, the hungry children from all over the world will get the cake after all!
No, no occasion except I liked the pan. I have a feeling our fling is over, however.
Feeding cake to hungry children all over the world? Doesn’t that send the wrong nutritional message?
::ducks and runs::
Jeffrey R.
I will meet you one day, you know. And I never forget.
This is what you call an ugly cake? Jeebus, you have high standards! This is far and away better than any cake I could have baked…or drawn…or imagined. See? Your real cake kicks my imaginary cake’s ass. And I have a great imagination, too!
You know what? It’s Lynne’s fault. There’s a moral here. If you’re going to be friends with an excellent baker who can decorate cakes, then just back away from the whole process.
Lucky for you, you’re also friends with someone with no artistic skill whatsoever. Therefore, you still kick ass by comparison.
One day, we’re going to locate your inner artist and drag her out kicking and screaming.
being the former Airline before I immediately thought of Hobby Airport. I was all “they sell crafts in the terminal? AWESOME!!!”
They should. Maybe when people are forced to sit in a metal tube with other people on a runway for five hours, a good craft project would calm them down.
Potholder looms for everybody!
Uh, I’m 25. Can I still squeeze in under the “hungry children” category?
Please?
Mmm… cake.
Absolutely. Trust me, if you’re 25, you’re a child to me.
Even though I’m only 35, of course.
Of course. Always. 😉
So would this cake send the “wrong message to children?”
*I love your banner, by the way. You are so pretty.*
Thank you. But having seen me in person, you know how photoshopped that photo is–for example, where are the wretched black circles that live under my eyes?