Cristi's cake

Cristi wanted citrus and berries with her cake, so I chose Martha Stewart's 1-2-3-4 lemon cake which I'd been wanting to try for a while.

Martha Stewart's cake

My cake

Next time, I'll line the sides of the pans with parchment as well as the bottom. My cake didn't come out as gracefully as I'd have liked. That combined with my thin lemon curd meant that the cake simply had to be covered.

Then the seven minute frosting and I had a fight. The frosting won. This doesn't do it justice, but if you look closely you can see that the melted sugar didn't so much become one with the meringue.


Not the unqualified success I'd originally planned, but I was pleased all the same. And more importantly, the birthday girl seemed to like it just fine.