Short Cuts
It is amazing how a very small detail, a seemingly insignificant detail, has the power to impact the outcome of either your success or failure. In the grand scheme of thing this particular example really is of no significant what so ever. But as I thought about what brought about the insignificant situation it began to flesh out for me in a very real and significant way. Here is a life lesson: When baking follow the recipe exactly! You see I am making a small wedding cake for a dear friend. It is a very small cake and I will also share in that is has been many years since I actually have done a wedding cake. After having located all the pans, turntables, decorating tips, separator plates, columns etc. necessary (as they were all packed away in boxes in the attic) I set about to find an appropriate pound cake recipe or the occasion. I found a recipe that I thought would work very well, I gathered all my ingredients and set to work. What resulted was one of the worst cake disasters I thi...