I accidentally added 2x the butter in both the cake and the frosting. I am sad and dumb.
Yesterday I made 2, 6" rounds of this lemon cake. A week ish prior, I made swiss meringe buttercream for a different cake, and it used 4 sticks of butter. So when I saw "1 cup of butter" in the recipe, idk, I think my brain just went straight back to that other recipe and ignored that 1 cup of butter is not 4 sticks. I should really know this by now, and yet I made the same mistake on both the batter AND the frosting, never realizing! I was even scoffing at how much butter it called for! I didn't even realize it until today when I glanced at a stick of butter and saw that it said 1/2 cup. Dumb dumb dumb. What a waste.
Made my lemon curd a tad too runny today along with a reduced strawberry topping, and assembled the thing begrudgingly, and the liquid is separating the cream cheese buttercream even worse than it already was, so it looks uglier by the minute lol.
At least I can thicken the rest of the curd up later, but man... Bummer. My last cake went so well, I think I got too cocky trying to make another banger only a week later. Sometimes I think the universe puts some kind of quota on how many successful bakes I can make in a given time period. Lesson learned. And I still have another 6" round that I'm tempted to just chuck out :(