Cake 2 results are in!

During a break in the remodeling action last weekend, I had enough time to bake my next cake. I was giddy! I followed my brand new, thoroughly thought out and researched instructions. When I creamed the butter with the lard, it looked and felt different. So far so good. I danced confidently around the kitchen as I followed my new instructions thinking to myself “You got this!”

My first cake, oh the agony!

I dream of baking a white, pristine, fluffy cake with lighter than air whipped frosting. I wanted all of my cakes to be homemade, from scratch. No boxed cake mix, and certainly no frosting from a can! Oh no. Watching the Great British Baking Show with everyday folks baking marvelous things told me I could do it.

My first cake with my new KitchenAid mixer was a total