This post was inspired by my Mom’s comment on this post.  I made a delicious cake, but the frosting got all over the place and was a runny mess.  Still tasty, but it was not getting 5 stars for presentation!  Here is her comment:

My mouth is watering as I read this. Looks and sounds amazing! When I am concerned about how much frosting/icing is going to end up on the cake plate, I take a big square of waxed paper, cut it into 4 large triangles, and place them on the cake plate first so the points of the triangles meet in the middle – or cut off the points so they don’t go all the way to the middle. (It makes an “X”, with the longest side of the triangle an inch or so outside the cake.) Then frost, ice, let it run. when it’s set up or done running, slide the waxed paper out, and the plate underneath is clean. And you get to scrape all the extra icing off the waxed paper and enjoy it. Also, it’s nice to put some of your sprinkles on the cake plate too, as garnish.

I decided to give her technique a try a few weeks ago.  I was doing a photoshoot with a friend and needed a cake for the pictures.  Once I get the disc, I will share the pictures with you all!  Anyways, the frosting here is canned, but the technique still worked the same.  And yes, I kinda missed the memo on large triangles things (sometimes I don’t get concepts like that, but next time maybe I will do it right).  The squares worked just as well — and gave me more room to mess up anyways!

Next time I will leave the square cut out in the middle so I can stick a dab of frosting on the plate.  That should keep the cake from sliding like mine did.  Here you can see what it looks like from below

Right here, there should probably be a picture of me putting on the second cake layer and lots of frosting… imagine that picture in your head!  Now there is another picture of me flinging sprinkles onto the cake.  You see, I just wanted us to practice using our imagination today! haha

Can you see who came home and wanted to help?  This is the fun part of baking! haha

One fine cake!  And yes, it did taste delicious too!  I think if I had put a dollop of frosting on the bottom, like mentioned before, it would not be so far off to one side!