Cake Numero Dos

Even though my instructor, Annie, said chocolate cake was harder to work with because it had more crumbs I decided to do one anyway. Even though Kyle doesn't like sour cream and refuses to eat anything with sour cream, I used sour cream in this cake anyway. I used my favorite fruit as a filling, raspberry. The filling turned out to be not quite as thick as I wanted it, even after I added more cornstarch, so I just put a light layer of icing across the bottom layer and let that dry before putting the filling in. It worked great.

I think I like doing the crumb coat the best because it doesn't have to look good at all.

Then you have to start paying attention to detail. Applying the second layer of icing and getting ready to smooth it out.

Attention to detail can produce pretty results, if I do say so myself.

I forgot to put centers inside my flowers but I think it works anyway. I just need to improve my vine technique.

Looks good and tasted good, too. Chocolate and raspberry are very good friends to each other.

Kyle claims he can taste sour cream in anything and at one point that was true. I did not tell him I had used sour cream until after he had eaten his piece of cake and said that it was good and tasted better than the last cake. He was surprised it had sour cream. Either it's been too long since he's tasted sour cream or I am one amazing baker. I prefer to believe the latter.