Yesterday, I decided to make a white velvet butter cake with maple buttercream frosting.
I assembled my mise en place (a fancy French term for "put all the stuff on the counter"), feeling very Food-Network-chef.
Apparently, though, it's not enough to just have your ingredients looking pretty on the counter. I was making the buttercream in a noisy stand mixer while the cake was baking, and did not hear the timer go off. By the time I realized what had happened, the cake was a tad overbaked. So when I tried to take the layers out, this is what happened:
The icing came out pretty, though.
And I used half of it to ice the layer that did not come apart. I guess it could have been worse.