THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB CAKE
Okay…… I set out to make this lamb cake. A neighbor, Dorothy Waddell, used to make us a lamb cake every year for Easter when I was young. And she carried out the tradition for my daughter every year as she was growing up. She passed away quite a few years ago and her husband gave me her lamb cake mold so I could continue with the tradition. I had the cake molds put away and never attempted to make this until this year. I guess that I figured all of the hours watching “Ace of Cakes”, “Cake Boss” and a few other cake bake off television shows would have prepared me. It didn’t seem like it would be that difficult. Well….. it probably wouldn’t have been if I knew what the heck I was doing! Dorothy would place the finished cake, covered with coconut shavings to look like lamb fur, on a plate surrounded by Easter grass and sprinkled colored jelly beans around it. I had this vision of making one to surprise my family with this year and make some extras for my neighbors. Apparently, this was not going to happen. Here is what I got…
The head fell off and half of the cake broke into three pieces. I tried to glue it together with butter cream frosting, to no avail. It just kept becoming more and more of a crumby mess. All of the coconut in the world could not have covered up the mistakes and I didn’t even begin to add jelly beans! Is it just me or does that lamb cake mold look like it is laughing at me? There was no way that this would or could sit upright.
First of all, the cake was too moist, I think that I was supposed to use bundt cake mix. I don’t even care what the mistakes were that I made, actually. I only wish that I would have made a red velvet cake to complete the road kill look of this sad, sacrificial lamb cake.
~ Happy Easter ~ ( Damn Lamb )
