Mid Conference Cake Update

Omnomberry Cake!

It was a wonderful session of conference that just ended! I listened while I mixed up the cake recipe and Seth kept the Squawker under control- he's been so fussy with teething the past few days! Anyways, the cake batter tasted pretty much like heaven. Miles and Miles and Miles above anything out of a box. They're cooling now and the blueberries are infusing with raspberry juice as we speak! In an hour I'll start making up the frosting and we'll see how it goes from there! But if it doesn't turn out awesome over all, I could seriously just make up the cake batter and eat that raw. So delicious.

Later after William went to bed... So I mixed the frosting while listening to the second session. I got a good kick in the gut at the talk about family history. I really need to do more with that. I got that impression very strongly when I was pregnant with William and now that he's here and I've settled into life with him the impression is back and I have the feeling that that talk was directly for me.

Frosting though! It's delicious. Especially the fruity one. If I did this cake again though, I would double the fruity one. I didn't have near enough frosting to give a generous layer between the cake layers, much less keep 1 cup for decorating the cake. I kept half a cup and the frosting layers were pretty skimpy. The chocolate frosting on the other hand I have like two cups left over to blow my caloric budget on once we get graham crackers. It's also very delicious. I'd also change the amount of cake batter. Maybe increase it again by half, use smaller than 8" diameter pans, or make only two layers instead of three. As it is, the 8" pans made for 1" ish thick layers and I prefer to have them a bit beefier than that. Then again, with three of them it's a pretty decent height. We'll see how the frosting:cake ration works out when we eat it tomorrow though.

My decorating skills need refining. But dang it looks yummy to me!