I put doughnut frosting on a cake and this is what happened

Why hello there! Long time, no talk! This blizzard-ing in the north east has really hit me hard; first with a cold, then a mother broken and displaced arm in need of surgery. So even though I have been dying to bake up a storm in this blizzard, it hasn’t really been a reality. Cut to last week, when it was a friend’s birthday…. *twinkly futuristic transition sound*

A friend of mine does not really like dessert, but was having a birthday. You’re probably wondering why I have a friend who doesn’t like dessert, well so am I. After much contemplation, I decided to make her a strawberry shortcake because you can’t go wrong with some whipped cream and berries. I found a good recipe in my handy-dandy Illustrated Cookbook, and pre-baked the cake. This was Sunday night.

Then Monday came with the blizzard Juno, and of course the party was canceled. So then I was sitting in my house for three days with a cake that was un-frosted that I wasn’t supposed to eat. Can you guess what happens next? Yup. I frosted the cake for me and my sister to eat, because why not? The party was indefinitely canceled because of sickness and stuff.

So I went back to my handy-dandy cookbook in search of a chocolate frosting recipe (I ditched the “healthy” strawberry shortcake notion”). I found a “Fudge-y Chocolate Frosting” recipe that seemed super easy, so I whipped it up (and of course burned a finger). It came out great and delicious, so I leveled my cake and started slathering it on. The frosting went on fine in the middle for the filling, and I put the second layer on. Then something weird happened.

The frosting would not spread on my cake! Like just would pull up the crumbs of the cake in this weird peeling maneuver. So I piled on more frosting to combat it, which worked, but then it would not stick to the sides! So here I am trying to make a pretty cake for myself, and it ends up looking like a poop cake. Literally though the pieces on the sides looked suspiciously #2-ish.

After I started eating a piece of it anyway, I realized what this frosting reminded me of. Doughnut frosting! There’s an amazing doughnut place near my house that makes the best doughnuts from scratch, and they have a chocolate-frosted doughnut. And that’s what I made, the chocolate frosting that should go on a doughnut. I don’t recommend putting doughnut frosting on a cake, it’s very dry and might look a little like poop.