Musings of a Transformation: What I Bought at Dollar Tree

I mentioned back in my Christmas wishlist that I had the random urge to bake cake and put cake pans and cake baking accessories on my wish list. I did not get any of them for Christmas. This in no way stopped my urge for cake baking. The end game still being that I am good enough at it by March 2 so I can make my niece her usual request of a chocolate cake with chocolate icing. The freak.

Cake supply less, I've been scheming about when I will have enough money to buy myself cake pans, carriers and cooling racks. Then today, I remembered what happened when I got the urge to bake bread. I went to the Dollar Tree for foil bread pans and ended up finding real bread pans for a dollar. Off to the Dollar Tree I went, and what do you know. Cake pans, carriers, and cooling racks. Nothing that will last a lifetime, but a great way to see if I actually like this and will do it often enough to warrant spending real money on it.

$4 in equipment later, we have lemon cake!

Well, two actually but the second one looked like this.

And then this....

And I was thinking, well, once I stack them, frosting will hide a multitude of sins.

But then I remembered that I live at my house, and we do not keep milk on hand. Did I mention I decided to start this project at 9 pm? I decided to wait to make the frosting after a grocery store trip. At this point, I still had hopes for a pretty stacked cake tomorrow. Then my husband wanted some, so I cut the bottom off. Then I decided to try to flip them and the mangled one fell apart.
Along with my dream.
The cake and a 1/2 are now in my dollar store carrier ( totally not trusting that handle btw) and I will attempt to make frosting tomorrow.

Now, I wanted to end this post with " and here is a picture of my little baking buddy" and show a current picture of my little dog. My little, lovable dog.....who hates cameras. Hilarity ensued.