Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I am excellent cook. Everyone has A THING, and my thing is cooking. When it comes to baking, however, it’s much less my thing. Usually I just end up buying a cake or a pie because I spend so much time in the kitchen working on my meal that I just completely forget about the dessert portion of the meal. Or maybe it’s because I just don’t have that much of a sweet tooth. Maybe.
Occasionally, however, I become ambitious and do silly things like offer to make a cake for a potluck dinner with friends. And then I find a lovely lemon cake recipe and I am all prepared to WOW my friends. The batter is perfect, the pan is one of those fancy ones that looks like a castle, and I have high hopes for this beauty.
And then it comes out of the oven. AND STICKS TO THE PAN.
Oh. No.
But then I remembered a gift I once received and never used.
And then suddenly, or in about 15 minutes – depending on who is counting – my disaster becomes a masterpiece!!
It’s so simple, I don’t know why I had never thought of it before.
I scooped some large crumbled pieces of cake out of the castle pan and tossed them into the trifle bowl. I covered the cakes with some whipped cream and layered the pan with some more cake and some more cream.
VOILA! A presentable dessert made from something I thought I was going to have to throw away.
I am neither a chef nor a baker so it is great to know there are options for when things don’t go as planned!
I am neither baker nor chef so this it is great to know there are options!