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I swear my family will never give me credit for all the things my school has pounded in my head.
My brother's bday is this weekend so I had to bake his cake. I forgot to pick up the stuff at the store today but my mom always has the stuff on hand to make my grandma's famous lemon coconut cake. Just lemon cake, lemon pie filling, white frosting, and coconut flakes. When I make it, I always make the cake and frosting from scratch
But anyways I knew she would have the above items since they are staples in our baking cabinet. So......I made the cake, added some chocolate chips to it, then instead of putting a mound of coconut on top and calling it good, I took some of the frosting and mixed it with the pie filling to give it a yellow color. Then I made a border. THEN.....it gets better
I melted some chocolate I use when I make truffles and I wrote "happy birthday Rob" on it. My mom came out and saw it, probably expecting the typical lemon/coconut cake from a box look and gave me a
and then said "how the hell did you do that in such a short amount of time??!?!" Like I hadn't planned it or anything. Plus.....a Pastry Chef is always thinking about the next move on the product being made. It took longer to bake and cool than it did for me to figure out how to decorate it giving it a nicer look than the box cake usually looks like. Plus, I do feel like an ass making him a cake from a box when I could have made a much nicer cake from scratch so I wanted to try to put forth some sort of effort into making it look like a birthday cake. But he won't care.
I'm full of rambling posts tonight. I stopped drinking wine an hour ago too!