For once, I’m not talking about the band.
Right now, I can smell cake baking…. and this is one helluva cake, if I dare say so without seeming too preening or apt to pull a muscle as I pat myself on the back.<\/p>\n
My friend Shelley’s wedding shower is today, and I said I’d bring the cake. And for once, not CostCo cake. I wanted to make a cake. I don’t bake desserts a whole lot, but I’m pretty good at all adventures in the kitchen, and committing to the time & creation of this cake was important to me. Now, one of the helpers in this shower immediately asked me to please make the cake co-ordinate with the invitations, OR the cups, plates & napkins. Um, let’s see, NO. I’m just not that girly-girl or matchy, I guess, nor do I take direction well. Besides, I already had a vision of the cake, and when I get my visions, people just better get out of the way.<\/p>\n
Shelley loves strawberries, so it’s a white cake with strawberry jello added in, PLUS, pecans, coconut & mashed strawberries. Frosting will be cream cheese, and the cake will be topped with white edible glitter & a layer of fresh sliced strawberries. Oh, and I doubled the recipe (and took some liberties with it) and am baking it in two enormous 10-inch silicone cake pans, and will cut the cakes in half, so it’s four layers. <\/p>\n
LOOK OUT, I have a vision. I will take pictures. You will fall down at your computer monitor and I’m warning the glucose-intolerant, you will feel the sugar.<\/p>\n
And, last but not least, as most things are with me, there’s meaning within the cake. The subtle joke is that Shelley used to buy Jell-o in the deli in our building when we both worked together, and it was topped with whipped cream, and she’d always talk about how she wanted some pecans on her jell-o, because that’s how they always ate their Jello in Texas, which always made me shriek, because we have many uses for Jell-o in the midwest, most of which involve floating items and molds, but putting nuts on on Jell-O is just plain wrong. I apologize for my inconsistent capitalizations in the word “Jell-O” as well. Anyway, she liked nuts on top for the crunch, and finding a recipe that uses (jello) and pecans seemed absolutely perfect to me. I know she’ll find it funny, and if the batter is any indication, the cake is going to rock. JUST LIKE THE BAND.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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