There are few things in life more delicious than petit fours. Be honest with yourself...do you really go to teas for the bride or mother to be? HECK NO! You go for the super sweet, delightfully cute, little tiny pieces of heaven ...and the punch of course! Laura and I knew this would be our next cake to master. I have to insert a *HAHA* right here because it was such a nasty, disgusting, repulsive MESS!
The cakes were good- everything the base of a petit four should be- firm, white, yummy. We cut them into squares and whipped up a batch of glaze. Then we were at a loss as to what the next step should be. To dunk, to pour, to run to the bakery and just buy a dozen and call them our's...we didn't know. We attempted the dunking method first...it was a NO....crumbs had to be fished out of the glaze for the next hour...not fun. The pouring method was next...and it did work well...for about 8 or so mini cakes...then the glaze sat at the bottom of a jelly roll pan laced with more crumbs. Too many crumbs to be fished out. So of course we head to Bruno's for three or four more large bottles of vanilla, powdered sugar and various other top secret ingredients.
Back at my apartment, we made three batches of glaze to pour over the rest of the cakes. Sadly, this left a lot of glaze in my sink, on the floor, in our hair, etc... We put them in the fridge to firm a little, and glaze overflowed from the jelly roll pan to coat the bottom of my fridge in a HARD STICKY MESS. During this whole fiasco, Laura was also trying to make ornaments for the ornament swap at Cassandra's. Laura was crying, I was about to hit her, and we almost stopped being friends forever. Abby arrived to scope out the scene, and she was horrified. Laura's mother arrived and was also horrified. We piped little hideous green things on the top of each petit four, Laura cried some more, and she left for her party at Cassandra's. People said they enjoyed the petit fours , but we didn't believe them. Laura and I took a break from each other for a couple of days, rethought this cake thing, and just promised that we would stick to real cakes for the next little bit. It is also worth noting that Laura's own mother took a break from her for a few days as well. Laura and I baked a few cheesecakes over the holidays (which we we do very VERY well) and some cookies, but it was July before we decided to try another cake.
-Mallory
The cakes were good- everything the base of a petit four should be- firm, white, yummy. We cut them into squares and whipped up a batch of glaze. Then we were at a loss as to what the next step should be. To dunk, to pour, to run to the bakery and just buy a dozen and call them our's...we didn't know. We attempted the dunking method first...it was a NO....crumbs had to be fished out of the glaze for the next hour...not fun. The pouring method was next...and it did work well...for about 8 or so mini cakes...then the glaze sat at the bottom of a jelly roll pan laced with more crumbs. Too many crumbs to be fished out. So of course we head to Bruno's for three or four more large bottles of vanilla, powdered sugar and various other top secret ingredients.
Back at my apartment, we made three batches of glaze to pour over the rest of the cakes. Sadly, this left a lot of glaze in my sink, on the floor, in our hair, etc... We put them in the fridge to firm a little, and glaze overflowed from the jelly roll pan to coat the bottom of my fridge in a HARD STICKY MESS. During this whole fiasco, Laura was also trying to make ornaments for the ornament swap at Cassandra's. Laura was crying, I was about to hit her, and we almost stopped being friends forever. Abby arrived to scope out the scene, and she was horrified. Laura's mother arrived and was also horrified. We piped little hideous green things on the top of each petit four, Laura cried some more, and she left for her party at Cassandra's. People said they enjoyed the petit fours , but we didn't believe them. Laura and I took a break from each other for a couple of days, rethought this cake thing, and just promised that we would stick to real cakes for the next little bit. It is also worth noting that Laura's own mother took a break from her for a few days as well. Laura and I baked a few cheesecakes over the holidays (which we we do very VERY well) and some cookies, but it was July before we decided to try another cake.
-Mallory
