holie shitt: cake update

[miss_pryss]

I made a cake, y'all. Sure, so a few things went horribly wrong:

-dragged the hangy-down oven filament through the half-baked bottom layer
-overcooked it, now it's kinda dry and stuff
-accidentally broke the top layer in half
-thought I had raspberry jam to stick top and bottom laters together: actually current jelly
-top and bottom layers failed to align quite; overhanging ledge of cake broke off: unsightly! (but delicious)
-fucked up the powder sugar stencil design on top

But mostly it went pretty much right.

Can someone please tell me how the hell to get the top layer onto the sticky, iced/jellied bottom one without 1) breaking the top layer and 2) misaligning them? Especially 1).

Comments

[randomblade.livejournal.com]

I tend to use baking paper, and put one piece upside down and then it's easier to get a plate under the top layer and the bottom layer, and bring them together.

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

See, I think that's what I did... I had both pieces on plates with their rounded tops down and their flat bottoms up, and I coated the "top" (flat bottom) of the bottom layer with jam, and then lined the two plates up next to each other. With one hand under each plate, I rapidly tipped them up towards each other until they were sandwiched against each other, and then quickly turned them over so they were flat again -- this time stuck together with a plate on top and a plate on bottom. I removed the top plate, and discovered that the process had been imprecise, and the top layer was about half an inch misaligned... and the overhanging half inch immediately broke off.

Also, during the stress of the transfer, the top layer cracked along its surface.

[randomblade.livejournal.com]

I think it's just always going to be tricky, and it's one of those 'matter of experience' things. Unless you're like magneto, but with power over cake, rather than metal.

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

OMG, what I wouldn't give for *that* superpower...

[randomblade.livejournal.com]

Have you seen that eddie izzard sketch - 'Cake or Death?'. That is what the magneto of cake would ask! He would have the brotherhood of Mutants With A Sweet Tooth. Pyro would have power only over birthday cake candles. Toad would be chocolate frog. I am SUCH a nerd.