Buyer BEWARE!!

Last weekend we celebrated my parent's 50th wedding anniversary. (Stay tuned for pictures of that event, they'll be posted soon.) For their wedding they had a heart shaped cake. I wanted to make them a similar one, so my project began. The cake part turned out fine and I made a purchase of a "new" icing from Pillsbury. Their Whipped Supreme, "the fluffiest and lightest" sounded like a winner to me, so I bought 4 cans. I was all set to do some awesome decorating with pink flowers and green leaf trimmings and lots of swirls and curls.



I made three layers of hearts and started to frost them using this new type of frosting/icing. And it was terrible. It would not solidify at all and kept dripping down. Even when I put it in my new fancy decorating tool with professional decorating tips, it all kept drooping and running down.



I knew that this was not working out, so I went to the Jewel to purchase a last minute replacement cake for that evening's festivities. I came home to find this:



The darn thing toppled over and the top layer looked like it came alive with an icing body and big old cake feet. It appeared to be making a beeline toward the front door to make its escape as the "Cake That Ate Glen Ellyn". I stopped it in its tracks (some via the mouth, alien icing and all, figured I'd take one for the team). Needless to say, DON'T BUY THIS TYPE OF ICING FOR A CAKE. Here is the store bought cake that we used, which turned out to be quite tasty, although it was not in the shape of a heart. The best laid plans....Oh well, lesson learned, I'll stick with the tried and true Betty Crocker next time.