Soooo, I have only baked a couple of cakes in my life, since we have no kids and it's just me and my husband. I'm more of a bread baking person. But I just got back from a visit to a friend who is a gold medal cake decorator and she gave me a little lesson on doing flowers, so I decided to bake this cake for a ladies group dinner. It was a huge success. I substituted sliced toasted sugared almonds for the raspberries and put them all over the outside along with some frosting flowers. It was a HUGE success! My husband really liked it, although he suggests reducing the sugar a bit since he's not big into really sweet cakes. I think if I make it again I will reduce the sugar for the filling in-between the layers. Anyway, it took me all day but it was really fun and came out great, even for a novice cake maker like myself. Oh, I even called the help line to ask about the baking setting and they were really helpful. A terrific fun experience, thanks! Oh, is there some way to post a picture of my masterpiece?

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