Fish Cake

It turns out: writing a thesis and preparing to leave a city and friends you love for a job that could be most accurately be described as "dream job" is a really great way to neglect a blog.

But, this past weekend, blogging and partying collided in a very good way. Guess what this is:


A fish cake. I made it. No lie. With a nod to BonAppetempt, here's the Martha Stewart version (left) and mine (right):


Eat it, Martha—my cake totally looks better than yours.

To make it, I used Smitten Kitchen's Best Birthday Cake recipe. I made a recipe and a half, and this made three thin layers of cake, baked in a cookie sheet with a rim. Then I cut them into a fish shape (the fins are made out of parts that were left over), put vanilla pudding on the bottom layer and cut-up strawberries in between the middle and top layers.

Then I made a recipe and a half of the 9"-layer cake version of the Swiss Buttercream, tinted it sea foam green, frosted on the crumb coat, waited a bit, re-frosted and put on the scales. Six rolls of Necco wafers worth of scales.

Here's the cake on fire, because it was a birthday cake:


And it was delicious!

Just so you don't think that cake was the highlight of the party, let me show you what else we did:


That's my thumb wrestling cage. For the 4th Annual Mexican Cage Thumb Wrestling Tournament.

And here's our Communist Party FunAppetempt:


And, after all that: the best guitarty* ever. Behold:



*Friends with guitars + friends with voices + party = guitarty.