German Chocolate Cheesecake: Assembly

Saturday morning I ran to the grocery store to buy more icing ingredients and made another batch of icing. After it was cool, I started assembling the cake. This was for sure the hardest part of the whole German Chocolate Cheesecake baking process. 

First, I sliced the cheesecake into two layers. We used dental floss to create the cut and then 4 spatulas to pick the cake up. When you are almost ready to lift the top of the cheesecake off, be sure to have the bottom layer of German Chocolate cake ready with icing on top of it to slide in between the layers. My husband and I worked as a team, split the cheesecake into two layers and slide the first German Chocolate cake layer in between. Then we noticed we had a little problem.

My cheesecake pan is 2 inches bigger than my cake pans!!!! So I smashed the top layer to fit in. Then started cutting the outside of the bottom layer.

 I took the cheesecake off and put it as the center layer in the rectangle cake. The cake recipe makes 3 round cakes. I only have 2 round cake pans so I used a square. We cut the square in half to make two rectangles and made a separate cake with the outer cheesecake as the center layer.

After we fixed our little problem, I covered both cakes with icing. I used most of the icing, probably have less than half a batch left. So here are the cakes:

We invited all the neighbors and their kids over to eat all the cake Saturday night at 7. We hurried cleaning the house to get ready for company, lighting candles and getting plates and forks ready. We had everything set up by 7:15, just to wait around for another hour until anyone showed up!!! At 8 we were just about to close up shop and call it another party where no one showed, when people showed up! I guess our neighbors are just late people. Everyone did end up coming, just an hour or two late. Crazy. But it was a fun party and the cake was a success!