This was my second cake ever and it was a nightmare to make. I baked the cake in a spherical cake tin. I followed a recipe by Debbie Brown and followed the directions that came with the cake tin. I let it cool for about 7 hours and it looked fine so I thought I had nailed......then I tried to cut in half. It was hallow and the center was completely raw. I wanted to cry.
Just before that, I colored the fondant flesh tone. That was another nightmare. I used the paste color "flesh" and used nearly the whole pot and the fondant still didn't resemble flesh. I kneaded and kneaded and nothing. I decided to add brown, pink and eventually orange out of desperation. The flesh color did kick in in the end but at the expense of the fondant's texture. With all the sugar for kneading, it became very dry and crumbly.
I am no quitter so I decided to go ahead with the cake anyway. I bought a Betty Crocker Devil's Food Cake box and used an extender recipe and baked the two half separately. That worked. I torted and filled the two half spheres with chocolate buttercream and put them on the board. The flesh color fondant was just so crumbly that it fell apart as I put it on the cake. I managed to salvage and smooth it out some but one of the boobs had a huge crack and because it was so dry and crumbly I could not roll it out more to cover the entire board, hence the weird ridges on the bottom corners.
Again, I am no quitter so I did the best that I could and my husband, who the cake was for (his birthday is today), loved it. He says it tasted really good too, I can't vouch for that as I don't like chocolate. I will definitely try to make this cake again in the future.
