Big cake. Big headache. Big flavor!
People used in photo to show actual cake size.
If you have an extra fridge in the garage, you can make this cake.The recipe for this 8th Wonder of the Cake World includes expected cake ingredients such as flour, sugar and vanilla. However, the recipe did not make mention of a few other key requirements:
Personal time from work because the cake takes 2 days to make (without sleep or breaks). This allows enough time to read the lengthy recipe 42 times in disbelief throughout the entire process, make 1 emergency run to the store and have 2 crying jags.
A vat of whipping cream on standby to be used as Plan B Frosting (see above, "emergency run to the store") because for some unknown reason the original frosting recipe (or Plan A Frosting) results in a sugary substance that looks more like it could be used to whitewash a fence or glue balsa parts together to make a model airplane. This is mysterious because you know you followed the recipe exactly as printed, you are not working in extreme cold or heat and your kitchen is at an altitude close to sea level.
A really big, strong platter on which to rest the towering cake. I cannot emphasize enough the necessity for a robust serving apparatus. Honestly, anything on which a baby elephant could balance would probably work.
An interest in botany--without which you could not sustain enough interest (or patience) to select leaves to use as a tool with which to use along with white chocolate to craft the flourishes set atop the cake. An ornate arrangement (or pile) of raspberries helps to anchor the sweet sculpted mimicry of Mother Nature.
Adequate storage space for the completed product.
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