Cakes and Ordination

Ceremonial Cutting of the Cake by the New PastorsThe Cakes Shortly Before Being Served

We arrived home fromPastor Jerome Wamala Passing Out Cake Every Last Bit Counts! Kenya on Wednesday afternoon. On Thursday Shauen and I made a trip to the grocery store, while there, Shauen received a call regarding Sunday's ordination service. During that call, I overheard him saying such things as "I think she would be able to do that" "How many cakes do you think you need?" and "Oh no, don't worry about it, it'll be our gift!" I immediately turned the cart around and stocked up on butter, flour, eggs and powdered sugar. They were expecting about 200 people for the ordination and thought 3 cakes would work. Ugandan cake portions are small so that would work, but I decided to bulk up the portion size a bit by making 6 sheets cakes and then layering them, resulting in 3 cakes. I enjoy baking, but I am discovering that I really enjoy playing around with decorating. I don't really know what I'm doing, but I have fun making things up. The cake was white with a chocolate buttercream layer, vanilla buttercream frosting and then chocoate decorations. I experimented with my chocolate buttercream and was really happy with my end result, very light but still chocolatey. It took me a good portion of Friday and Saturday to make the cakes, but although it was work, it was fun work. From experience I know that when serving cake, the cake is cut into small pieces and then the pieces are piled on the plate, the plate is passed around and everyone picks out a piece. What I didn't expect to see on Sunday was the cake cut into pieces, and then my layers cut apart! Oh well, by doing this it meant that instead of everyone getting one piece of cake with 2 layers, everyone one was able to have 2 pieces of cake. There was even some cake leftover to send home with the 3 newly ordained pastors. The tray was also scraped to get the last bit of frosting and crumbs and that was either eaten or wrapped up to take home. So, while the layers may not have been truly appreciated, the taste certainly was!  -Krista