My sisters friend, Jenna, asked me if I would like to make her son, Keegan's, first birthday cake. Do I want to, umm, YES! So I asked what they would like. A rubber duck. I thought, I want to make this cake awesome! Keegan is the cutest little man! So I started looking at rubber duck cakes to get some ideas. Hmm, nothing seemed right until I found out Wilton made a 3D Rubber Duck cake pan, which, I had to get my hands on. I called around and no one seemed to carry the pan. Before leaving work one day, I told my sister, maybe I should check the North end stores. Sure enough, I came across the pan at the Rochdale Bulk Barn. I was so excited and after work we went to pick it up. Once I got the pan I wondered what I would make the rest of the cake look like since this little pan wasn't going to feed thirty five people.
I got it. A bubble bath! The night before I wanted to bake the cake I went online and found a Wilton discussion form of people discussing how their experiences were with making this particular cake..the majority of the results were it didn't. So I thought "Oh Crap, I should have tried this out a few times." I came home from work and got at it, I measured what the pan could hold and did everything right. Twenty minutes into baking the cake I remembered, "Oh ____, I forgot to spray the pan with cake release!" I was in such a rush and my mom left the kitchen a mess when I got home that I completely forgot! What a rookie mistake though! I baked it nevertheless and the top came off wonderfully, the bottom not so much, so I did it a second time and it worked. The only flaw was that this time I didn't use as much batter as I had the first time because I ran out and it didn't fully rise, but I think it still looks pretty good! I used the marshmallows to make it look like the rubber duck was floating in a bath tub!
Kaits :)
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