the mud hut

Behold...the mud hut cake wreck! (I am little embarrassed to show this cake).
So my husband said he wanted a chocolate cupcake cake with a strawberry or raspberry filling. I said, "Cool, I love chocolate. I mean who doesn't besides my son." Well, I made a triple chocolate fudge cake with the strawberry jam filling. Then I messed up and got a chocolate chip frosting that made the cake look horrible. It was so hard to spread on because it was not the "whipped" kind. Chunks of the cake were coming off. I gave up..I didn't even clean the mess that I made on the cake plate. So now the cake does not look like a cute cupcake cake as my daughter's did. It looked like some beach hut or pile of crap..You know you were thinking it, Eric. So we ate the cake. It was a delicious overkill of chocolate..Yum!


yes, he blew out some candles for fun.

Dinner was yumarama. We had orange chicken (used the Orange sauce from Panda Express) and rice!


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Heidi said…
Hey Angie,

I love the mud hut! Thought I'd share my cake decorating secrets with you since my first couple of cakes looked just like this! 1st...find a couple of lego men and a plastic palm tree...maybe even a tiny party paper umbrella to add to the cake. This makes it an "authentic" mud hut cake...just let them think you made it that way on purpose. 2nd...if you heat the frosting a few seconds in the microwave its a ton easier to spread. 3rd...frosting a cake is easier if you use A LOT of frosting on the knife. Thin layers of frosting will tear the cake. Thick layers will stick to the cake and then you can spread them out some...AND don't spread over the same area twice as this will tear the cake too. Hope this hard earned info helps!
March 8, 2010 at 8:18 PM
Home by the Creekside said…
Hey Heidi....Nice to hear from you..The frosting was chunky..it had chips in it..I did heat it up. My fault for not paying attention...IT was still yummy.
March 8, 2010 at 9:24 PM
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