Well it has been awhile so here are a few fun stories that I have had! One of the girls on the Study Abroad, Camille, had a birthday and so a few of us decided to make a cake for her birthday! We all made up excuses as to why we could hang out with her on the afternoon of her birthday....Laundry was very important to some of us!
So we first went to the store which was about an hour ordeal because they only had one kind of cake mix. You would think with no selection that it would be easy but trying to read the German and figuring out what exactly we wanted to make was hard. So we finally decided to just get the chocolate cake mix, this creme frosting package, and sugar flowers for decorations. We then headed home to start cooking. There were five of us in the kitchen trying to bake a cake! So we couldn't find a cake pan or a mixer and we don't have a microwave. So we started with the hard butter and just had to fork into the mix. We then just stirred the batter until our arms hurt! We did find a springform pan which we just prayed that the batter wouldn't leak through and then covered it with butter. Once we put the cake in the oven we found the mixer....oh well! And then we only had 30 minutes until we needed to meet up with the rest of the group for a big party at T.G.I. Friday's with Camille but the cake needed to cook for 40 minutes. Well after 35 minutes we took the cake out and the top was burnt.....not sure how that happened. So we cut the top off off the cake and it was the most dry cake I have seen. Luckily the cake came with a chocolate glaze so poured that all over then we had the creme frosting we made. We used the mixer we found but it just wasn't quite right. It didn't get fluffy or stiff even though we added twice as much powdered sugar as the recipe required. So we then put the cake in a shoebox lid and poured the frosting mess over the top. It probably didn't help that we didn't have time to cool the cake but we put it in the freezer for 5 minutes. So with the "frosting" on the cake it just ran down the sides and made a puddle around the cake! Good thing it was in a shoebox lid because it would have been a horrible mess as we carried it around Vienna. We then put the hard sugar flowers and Happy Birthday decorations on but in the frosting they won't stay on the cake either.
So now being a half an hour late to the party and not the cake we had envisioned headed to the party. People looked at use as we walked from our house with this mess of frosting and cake. On the streetcar we got a couple good second glances too. Luckily, the cake tasted just fine with all that frosting and the cake wasn't even that dry because it was soaking in the bath of frosting! Definitely cooking in Austria has been quite the experience learning how to read directions and make things work!
So we first went to the store which was about an hour ordeal because they only had one kind of cake mix. You would think with no selection that it would be easy but trying to read the German and figuring out what exactly we wanted to make was hard. So we finally decided to just get the chocolate cake mix, this creme frosting package, and sugar flowers for decorations. We then headed home to start cooking. There were five of us in the kitchen trying to bake a cake! So we couldn't find a cake pan or a mixer and we don't have a microwave. So we started with the hard butter and just had to fork into the mix. We then just stirred the batter until our arms hurt! We did find a springform pan which we just prayed that the batter wouldn't leak through and then covered it with butter. Once we put the cake in the oven we found the mixer....oh well! And then we only had 30 minutes until we needed to meet up with the rest of the group for a big party at T.G.I. Friday's with Camille but the cake needed to cook for 40 minutes. Well after 35 minutes we took the cake out and the top was burnt.....not sure how that happened. So we cut the top off off the cake and it was the most dry cake I have seen. Luckily the cake came with a chocolate glaze so poured that all over then we had the creme frosting we made. We used the mixer we found but it just wasn't quite right. It didn't get fluffy or stiff even though we added twice as much powdered sugar as the recipe required. So we then put the cake in a shoebox lid and poured the frosting mess over the top. It probably didn't help that we didn't have time to cool the cake but we put it in the freezer for 5 minutes. So with the "frosting" on the cake it just ran down the sides and made a puddle around the cake! Good thing it was in a shoebox lid because it would have been a horrible mess as we carried it around Vienna. We then put the hard sugar flowers and Happy Birthday decorations on but in the frosting they won't stay on the cake either.
So now being a half an hour late to the party and not the cake we had envisioned headed to the party. People looked at use as we walked from our house with this mess of frosting and cake. On the streetcar we got a couple good second glances too. Luckily, the cake tasted just fine with all that frosting and the cake wasn't even that dry because it was soaking in the bath of frosting! Definitely cooking in Austria has been quite the experience learning how to read directions and make things work!
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