A "certain caterer" (who will remain nameless to protect his innocence) had a certain "dessert emergency" recently and 3LittleFigs heeded the call for a cake bailout. Forty, four-layered cakes in less than 24 hrs?
Pssssshhhhh! Aint no thang.
(We were being optimistic!)
We know the pros on shows like Cake Boss, Ace of Cakes, etc, laugh at these sorts of situations and effectively make them their bitches. Why couldn't 3LittleFigs? (I'm now counting the reasons on two hands, but boy was I optimistic at the time!) These TV shows are also strategically edited, time-lapsed, and manipulated to show the scripted (cough), "make it look easy" tidbits that beg for glued eyeballs.
For the record, quantity cake-making in a limited time frame is NOT EASY. We were seeing stars and moving like zombies by the end of our cake "episode".
Since I mentioned the Cake Boss...
But back to the task at hand! FORTY freaking coconut key-lime cakes in 24 hrs? EEK!
Kath (The Wise Fig) called Kate (The Big Fig), and we assessed the situation in the commercial kitchen.
White cake, lime curd, buttercream & coconut shavings were the pieces to our 40 puzzles. So we went to town cooking, mixing, baking, mixing, slicing, mixing, slathering, mixing, frosting, mixing and coconut-ing.
The story ends well for the cakes, with an on-time delivery, successful plating of 500 slices, and glowing feedback about taste (most important of all!) and presentation.
But This Big Fig didn't fare so well. Her story ended with the beginnings of a two-week-long sinus infection :(
Boo Hoo, I know.
Here are those damn cakes.....
(Oh yeah, and I made some raspberry drizzle)
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