So the great cake experiment began last Saturday! I made a chocolate cake with the goal of building my confidence towards ultimately creating this thing of beauty:
the holy grail!
For the experiment I decided that I will not make the cake from scratch! If the Pillsbury Doughboy, Betty Crocker and the Maya Kitchen have perfected cake mixes I am not going to mess with them haha so the one thing that I want to test therefore is this: CAN I FOLLOW DIRECTIONS?? Seriously, I need to test this because I have a habit of skimming over pages and committing stuff to memory in the hopes that I can remember all the details, which of course never happens 😛
So during the entire process, I kept reading and re-reading the instructions on the box haha and the recipe I printed or cream cheese frosting is now unreadable because I’ve folded and unfolded it so many times, malapit ng mapunit! But aaanywaaay, all that doesn’t matter because I got this!!!
devil’s foodcake with cream cheese frosting — delicious 🙂
I only smeared the cream cheese frosting and left most of them in the bowl so that my family can smear as much as they like in their own slices. Here’s BDW’s:
I made the frosting from scratch!!! waaah!
To make the cake, I used
1 box of Pillsbury’s Moist Supreme Cake Mix (Devils’ Food)
1 1/4 cups water
1/2 cup oil
3 eggs
I mixed everything together in a bowl with an Oster hand mixer that I recently bought for Php 1,250
I used my mom’s silicon bundt pan, which did not need any more greasing.
When the cake was done, the cake kinda overflowed which resulted in this:
This cake was thus renamed, the Tumor cake haha
For the cream cheese frosting:
6 oz cream cheese
1/2 cup of butter
1 teaspoon of vanilla (optional)
2 1/2 – 3 cups of powdered sugar (sifted)
Mix the cream cheese and butter and slowly add the powdered sugar. Add the vanilla if you want but even without it, the cream cheese frosting is already yummy if I may say so myself 🙂
Spread the frosting after the cake has cooled.
Dear fellow moms and beginner bakers, if I can do this SO CAN YOU!! I am the worst cook ever and to make this is a testament to how easy the recipe is 😀 Most importantly, my confidence has been built and I am ready to take on the next step to DW’s birthday rainbow cake!! Woohoo!!
Gigi says
January 28, 2011 at 3:14 pmHi! Thanks for sharing this, you helped in building my confidence in baking. Keep it up!
Mylene M. Calleja says
October 14, 2010 at 10:06 pmOne of greatest dream is to bake a cake (I don’t have an oven) your devil’s cake looks yummy and kinda good for a first time. wish I could do that too. By the way, nice one..
Topaz Mommy says
October 10, 2010 at 6:23 pmWow. Ganda ng macro shots, Neva! What’s your camera?
Mom-Friday says
October 10, 2010 at 12:40 pmNice!!! I think i want some of your devil’s food cake now 🙂
Baking is really an ‘exact science’. Wish I can go back to baking…tamad na talaga ako!
Good luck with the rainbow cake! can’t wait to see your masterpiece 😉
sunshine says
October 9, 2010 at 9:08 pmWow! Looks really delicious!
I really want to go back to baking but due to my high blood sugar, I have to lay off from the sweets for awhile 🙁 what else to cook?
Rone says
October 9, 2010 at 7:59 pmGood job! That rainbow cake looks crazy. Parang ang hirap masyado. I prefer making cookies and cupcakes, easier to get the consistency right.
maqui says
October 9, 2010 at 6:36 pmwinner ka talaga neva!
now i am inspired to try out my oven for the first time
curious lang, how much did all the ingridients cost? Just want to know how much profit bake shops get.
manilamommy says
October 10, 2010 at 9:40 pmhi maqui! i probably spent around 300 for everything. the cake mix was about 160++ na kasi. i’m sure bakeshops get a much better deal since they order in bulk. i’m not sure kung mas matipid din if you do your own cake mix with the flour and the yeast and all that wonderful stuff hehe 😀 try mo lang for fun!!
hi rone! yes i’m crazy enough to try the rainbow cake haha 😀 i already baked one and will post about it soon!
hi sunshine! there are baking recipes now that use splenda instead of sugar and there are ingredients that are sugar-free and low-fat too i hope pwede yun for you 🙂
hi jules (beached11) – di lang mom, mader pa 😉
hi frances! (topazmommy) – thank you!! my cam is a canon eos450 d, i used the 50mm f1.8 II lens for the macro shots. for the other pics i just used my canon sd780is
thank you everyone for the comments 😀