The first cut into the cake already shows something is not quite right.
This cake is from The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook. Thank you to Patrick and Katherine for lending me the book!
Now, I’ve heard very good things about this kind of cake. It is essentially wafers covered in whipping cream. Unfortunately I misunderstood the directions and got wafer cookies. I was a bit confused reading the recipe which suggested making an alternating arrangement that was almost a circle shape since the wafers that I had were long and rectangular. I arranged them as best I could but was already starting to doubt the cake at that point.
I brought the cake to a party and when I brought it out mentioned that I was a little concerned about this one. In taking the first bite I found that the cookies had become quite soggy and realized for sure that I had made a mess of this one. One of the other people at the party had made it before and told me that while I had picked up iced wafer cookies I was supposed to have picked up wafer cookies.
We still ate it and everyone had a good laugh.