I love the 80's

If the 80's decade played out for you anything like it happened for
me then you spent more time than you should have desparately trying to figure out the Rubic's Cube. You know, without peeling off the stickers.

When a friend of mine asked me to make a Rubic's Cube cake for her brother's rehersal dinner I wasn't really expecting it to be all that difficult. For some reason, despite my top of the line education, I completely neglected to remind myself that a cube is just that; a cube. All sides are equal. It's height is the same as it's width and depth.

I did eventually remember this troublesome mathmatical fact, but not before I had put the fondant on the cake. It wasn't until I started trying to place the colored squares on the cube (well, the cube that wasn't actually yet a cube) that I realized I was going to have to shave part of the cake off and redo the fondant. After that minor fiasco it was just a matter of painting the squares. It should also be noted that when you are making a Rubic's Cube cake even though you will never see the underside of the cake it must be taken into consideration when adding the colors. I remembered just in the nick of time to save my Rubic's Cube from a missing color.

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