the amazing bundt cake

here you go liza.  a million pictures of the bundt cake experience!

well, with the bundt cake pan i had to borrow from my neighbor, i made that triple chocolate bundt cake from easy weeknight favorites.

i was so nervous i googled the crap out of how to successfully make a bundt cake.  and although google didn't mention this idea, i made the cake 24 hours in advance so in case it sucked, i would have time to make an alternative dessert for the pot luck.

honey mixed up the batter because he was so impatient to get the cake done and go to bed.  while he was doing that, i was googling and watching you tube videos of the proper way to grease and flour a bundt pan.  in my googling it was mentioned that the batter wasn't supposed to sit while you grease and flour the pan so you were supposed to prepare the pan before you started.  fail.  

ehow.com mentioned the tip that if you were making a chocolate cake, you should use cocoa powder instead of flour so that the outside of your cake doesn't look white.  i greased and floured [cocoa powdered] heavily because i was terrified my cake wouldn't come out in one piece... or at all.

this is what it looked like going in.

 

 

i'd been a little concerned it didn't fill up the pan but after watching it bake (i kept the light on the whole time so i could see it... much like you watch your newborn baby sleep... just in case they stop breathing or yawn or something.  well, at least i might have done that.  anyways... it puffed up huge and i was just happy it didn't overflow or climb to the ceiling or something.

it was gorgeous.  and after watching more you tube videos on the best way to eject a bundt cake from it's pan... i was able to get it out perfectly without a single hitch.

i was so proud of myself i almost cried.

 

and then i rested for a night.

i didn't want to ice it until right before because i wanted it to look and smell nice and fresh.  sooo after honey got home from work i made the chocolate sauce and waited the 10-15 minutes...not sure if the recipe book, google, or you tube told me to do that... during which time i watched a few more you tube videos specifically on the best way to frost a bundt cake.  i used the plastic baggie method and it went great.  i drizzled it around and around about eighty million times until...

POP!  and i screamed!  and then from the other room chris yelled "YOU RUINED YOUR CAKE?!?!"

the plastic baggie had burst... all over the cake, the cake stand, the counter.  i didn't take a picture of it at the time because it was a very frantic situation.  time was of the essence.  luckily i was able to not loose all of the chocolate sauce so i was able to drizzle it over the section of the cake that was coated in sauce.  it blended.  if you looked for it you could see it but let's just say if this was a poppy seed cake it would have been destroyed and unfit for the potluck.  the monochromatic color scheme saved the day!  

if this was a clock you'd see that 2-4:30 was quite a bit higher because the drizzles were on top of the thick layer of chocolate coating.

"it's good!"  (he didn't actually say that... it's just my touchdown reference.

chocolate spot... just keepin' it real.

and since this is how much was left (always too much food at a potluck) i took it upon myself to finish it off.  i haven't eaten all the leftovers but it is safe to say without exaggeration that i have eaten at least half of this cake.  HALF.

tell me how awesome i am.  i feel like i can conquer the world!