For Andy’s birthday I wanted to bake a delicious layer cake. I thought it would be best to do a test cake first to see how the oven worked. I chose a lemon cake recipe because lemon cake is delicious and forgiving. I’ve never baked with buttermilk or marshmallow creme. But the photo on the recipe looked delicious and the recipe used real lemon juice. So despite a head cold, I baked away.
First off, marshmallow creme is a serious pain. It’s incredibly sticky and hard to get out of the jar and even harder to get off of the counter. It turns out I didn’t have the 16 ounces of marshmallow creme that I needed. I only had 7 ounces. So I attempted to half the icing recipe. This was a little disaster as the icing looked like it was curdling when I poured in the lemon juice.
But in the end Andy loved the cake and that’s all that matters.
