Wilton Course 1, Class 4

On Tuesday I had my final class for course one. In this cake we were supposed to make our final cake, with all the techniques we had learnt so far. I was looking forward to making a nice grand cake to finish the course with a bang! I choose the purple flowered cake from the course book as the cake final cake for my class....

I do not own a lot of quality baking pans, just a few not so great quality ones for my casual baking before I enrolled into these classes... But for the final class, I decided to buy a Wilton round cake pan... But since I did not get the desired size , I decided to buy up a Nordic cake pan from Walmart not before I read 5 star reviews on Amazon about the brand Nordic. 

So, on Monday a day before my class, I was all excited to bake my 9X3 inch final cake.... I decided to make a chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling.... I wanted this final cake to be delicious inside out. So, I followed and instructions and made the cake as I always do... Post 35 min, I peeped turned on the oven light and peeped into the oven to take a look at the cake. Wow, it had rose well and looked level enough to ice away.... So, I pulled the cake out and to my horror the cake was jiggling like a custard!!!! I could see the baked crust on the top of the cake but when I put a toothpick in and pulled it out, it was all just liquid...

Grrrrr.... 35 minutes in a 350 degree oven, how the hell can a cake be not baked.... Whatever, I poured the batter away cause the it was all messed up during my investigation of the under baked cake.... 

I did not what went wrong??? I thought maybe the oven was not properly heated or the baking strips slowed down the baking process etc etc..

I had a spare yellow cake mix which was immediately mixed up and sent to the oven. I watched the cake like a hawk this time, I let it bake for 45 minutes instead of the regular 35 minutes... Saw a nice golden cake.. Pulled it out, but to my disappointment it was still a bit raw after 45 minutes, the dome shrank a bit too... I put it back in the oven and let it bake for 10 more minutes, I would rather have a cake over baked than under baked... 

Out it came, and I let it cool for sometime... After a while I tried to get the cake out but it refused to come out of the pan... it was stuck! Oh my god! can anything else go wrong with this cake more than  this NO!

It fell after a while but it was a little broken which I evened it out with a knife... And there it sat.. An over baked  cake with a slight dipped dome and a crusty bottom... A cake I would NEVER choose for my final class. It would have gone to my dustbin, if only had I not run out of cake mixes to make more cake.

I disconnected for a while and thought what the problem was... It was surely the cake pan as the cake mixes are fool proof., they bake well even in my 1$ cake pans....  There was no point in baking more cakes with the same cake pan....And I had no time to go buy a new tin, bake a cake and ice it....

I decided to make do with the less than perfect cake I had... hoping that the frosting would cover up the flaws... So, I iced the cake and stuck it in the fridge to set.... I have to admit, after getting all covered up with the icing the cake dnt look too bad.... 

Off I went with cake to my last class of course one... We would be getting our certificates too today!!! :)

We learnt to make roses, which was not as easy as it looked... I struggled to make my roses, definitely need to practice it....  I made purple roses for my white and purple cake.....I then decorated it  and voila fixed my damaged cake!!!

Our instructor Theresa took a picture of us with our cakes, will upload once I get it. Until then, here are a lot of  pictures of the FINAL CAKE!