Guest Blogger - My Husband: A Funfetti Birthday Cake!!

I've been reading all of Kina's blogs and I knew that, as her birthday wish, she wanted nothing more than me to bake her a cake.

The first time she made a funfetti cake from scratch didn't turn out so well (it tasted like spongy cardboard).  I can make fun of that one because all the rest have been amazing!

For me, I wouldn't make the same funfetti mistake - I chose a recipe that I knew I could trust.

I'm actually pleased with how this picture turned out - call me up Pillsbury Doughboy, I'll be your photographer

I really did think about making a cake from scratch myself...but I knew I could mess this one up enough to still prove the point that baking (and decorating) is difficult.

For starters, the box doesn't differentiate which 'oil' you should use.

Choices, choices, choices

I also had no clue what "shortening" was (still don't).  They wanted me to grease the pan with it.  Where I'm from, we call that butter.

Yeah, that's probably enough

The box told me to use the mixer to mix the ingredients - but I was scared to break it.  So I used my hands (like a man).

...And it was very tiring - but still manly

I took it out of the oven 9-minutes early because it looked done.  Kina even walked in and put a toothpick in it and agreed.  My 6th baking sense helped me out.

Looking good

Now, back in the day, I'd pour some frosting on and cut it out from here - but, from watching Kina, I know real bakers frost the whole thing (sides and all).  So all I had to do now was to let it cool and then dump it out and frost it.

But only that much came out - why did it stick to the pan?

So my butter didn't work as I had hoped.

To make up for that error, I cut the whole cake in half and now decided to make it a 'layered' cake.  I stole some of Kina's old cream cheese frosting from the fridge so I could put it in between the cake pieces (hopefully to make the destroyed part stick to the rest of the cake).

But I didn't have very much cream cheese frosting so I got that

At this point, I was pretty confused as to how real bakers spread frosting without having half their cake be ripped apart.  Kina then told me that you need to let your cake cool.  That made perfect sense to me.  But I wanted to finish my project - so I pushed through - it could cool as I worked.

This side view shows that I should have let the cake cool

Finally, I was able to "pipe" words on the top of the cake with the left over stolen cream cheese frosting.  This was my favorite part - I think I nailed it.

The circles cover up holes in the cake

Happy Birthday Kina!  I love you very much.  I am very glad you are the baker of the family - I'm inadequate in that area.

Torrey and I are so grateful for you and we cherish every day with you.

Thanks for letting me steal your Blog for the day!