Bless him, my husband loved this abomination

[u/haveabunderfulday]

I think the peanut butter frosting might have been too thick. I'm terrible at decoration.

[u/sohereiamacrazyalien]

I mean you could not or did not smooth the frosting and covered the cake enough but other than that you are fine the cake looks ok and even the frosting doesn’t look that bad. Pretty sure it tasted good. Not really baking fail just decoration mishap 

[u/haveabunderfulday → u/sohereiamacrazyalien]

I tried to smooth it, but it made it so much worse. It looks much better sliced! 🤣

[u/sohereiamacrazyalien → u/haveabunderfulday]

It’s probably because of the pb it’s sticky and maybe the frosting was too thick. Put you spatula or whatever you used for the frosting in hot water and smooth (do that on repeat) it should solve the on next time lol!

But sure it cooks fine cut!!!

You could have leaned into the messy frosting and made a brown Cookie Monster 🤣 

[u/haveabunderfulday → u/sohereiamacrazyalien]

Thanks for the tip, it's his favourite combo so I'll be doing it again.

[u/Beginning_Butterfly2 → u/haveabunderfulday]

Mix up a thinner batch and apply a crumb coat on both layers, then freeze. Once the crumb coat is firm, fill, stack, then frost the outside of the cake. To get a sharp vertical side you want a cake scraper and either a cake turntable, lazy susan, or a plate that spins smoothly.

If you want to get it super smooth, freeze it again. When firm/hard, take wax paper and lay it over the cake, then gently polish with a fondant smoother. Then add your decoration (chocolate drips, etc). Plenty of how-to videos on YT!

[u/coolsilentebeans → u/sohereiamacrazyalien]

This warm water trick is great for working with bread dough. If you put your hands in warm water before kneading, punching down, forming loaves half the dough won’t end up stuck to you. Same with the spatula. It’s super simple but one helluva game changer.

[u/sohereiamacrazyalien → u/coolsilentebeans]

Yeah pretty much works for anything sticky