{"id":75,"date":"2011-08-09T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/art-of-cakemaking\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T17:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T17:22:25","slug":"art-of-cakemaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/art-of-cakemaking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Cakemaking."},"content":{"rendered":"

So for years my dear friend Megan has made her daughter\u2019s birthday cakes from scratch.  They are always darling and you know she spent hours painstakingly and lovingly baking and decorating them. It\u2019s no secret to anyone that knows me that I am.not.a.baker.nor.a.cook.  However, sometimes I do sell myself short.  I thought, \u201cwhy not?\u201d and decided that I, too, was going to make a cake.  For Charlie\u2019s 4th birthday.  So I googled dino cakes and came up with a really cute template from Betty Crocker\u2019s website<\/a>, gathered all my materials, and set aside an afternoon to tackle this culinary masterpiece.  The most important lesson I learned was in the art of crumbs.  Apparently one should freeze or refridgerate a cake before frosting it?  Otherwise, this is what happens: \"283869_10150283318212722_611007721_7514231_6566118_n\"<\/a> Hmph.  Blasted crumbs! This was proving to be a little more difficult than I had anticipated.  Not to be deterred, however, I sought the advice of some well-versed baking friends via Facebook and popped this bad boy in the fridge in the hopes I could resume icing it in an hour or so. Let me just show you what the cake was supposed to look like: \"d5583bc0-3e01-4f08-a75d-f8c868809aec\"<\/a> \u2026aaaanddd what it ended up looking like: \"184160_10150283483372722_611007721_7516005_8142489_n\"<\/a> Ah yes, you are all very sweet, but let\u2019s just say that my career as a cake-maker might have just ended before it began.  And to make matters worse, a piece of this cake is about a million Weight Watchers points.  So I can\u2019t even ENJOY the fruits of my labor!! I\u2019m on a cake-making strike!! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So for years my dear friend Megan has made her daughter\u2019s birthday cakes from scratch.  They are always darling and you know she spent hours painstakingly and lovingly baking and decorating them. It\u2019s no secret to anyone that knows me that I am.not.a.baker.nor.a.cook.  However, sometimes I do sell myself short.  I thought, \u201cwhy not?\u201d and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almostjuliet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/283869_10150283318212722_611007721_7514231_6566118_n_thumb255B1255D.jpg?fit=644%2C481&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}