Receta Countdown to Kelly Ripa, day 22: Cake time

There are 22 days left before I head to New York to decorate cakes with Kelly Ripa to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, courtesy of Foodbuzz and Electrolux. The other day's frosting experiment was a total failure. I shed a few frustrated tears - yes, really, over frosting! - and then it dawned on me that maybe the problem was the frosting itself. It had been sitting around for a while and had dried out a bit. So maybe it's not me - maybe I just need better frosting.

And thus I am spending today reading The Cake Bible. If you're going to get started on fancy cakes, this is the only book you really need. Find a copy, open it to page 27, and look at the Rose Trellis cake pictured there. You'll see what I mean. I'm also in love…