Here is my easy cake trick.
Use any box cake mix flavor you want. Make a few changes to what you put in it. Instead of the water it calls for, use milk. Instead of the oil that it calls for, use melted butter or margarine. If it is chocolate, add a tablespoon or two of cocoa powder and try buttermilk instead of regular milk. If it is a white cake (or yellow), add a little vanilla extract.
As for icing, use the stuff in the can already. Decorate it with the tubes of colored icing, the hardened candy like decorations, or not at all. Your friend will be very happy at the effort of a home baked cake...and that you remembered the birthday.
I make changes like this all of the time, and everyone swears that my cakes are homemade from scratch. They are not.Any easy recipe for a birthday cake???
Buy a choc cake, Angel Delight Chocolate Flavour, Bag Malteasers, cover cake in Angel Delight, decorate with Malteasers and candles.
One Coooooool Delicious Cake. Enjoy.
Good Luck
Lain.
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go to the grocery store and buy one........:))) easiest
box mix. a little oil, a couple of eggs, a pan, mix it up, bake it for 20 minutes, when it cools, frost it, write happy birthday, and enjoy.
Ingredients
1 cups sugar
1/4 teaspoons salt
1/4 cup shortening
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tablespoons baking powder
3/4 cups milk
Directions
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Grease and dust with flour a single 9-inch round cake pan for a single layer cake. Dust two if you are doubling the recipe for a layer cake.
1. Cream the sugar, salt, and shortening together. Add the egg and beat until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla.
2. In another bowl, mix the flour and baking powder together.
3. Add about one-third of the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and mix briefly. Add about one-third of the milk and mix. Continue twice more with the remaining flour and milk. Do not over mix. Scrape the batter into the pan.
4. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until the cake tests done with a toothpick.
5. Let the cake rest in the pan for about five minutes and then remove it to a wire rack to continue cooling
Lemon Cake Filling
2 tablespoons cornstarch
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup water
2 large egg yolks
zest from one small lemon
1/4 cup lemon juice (fresh squeezed or battled from concentrate)
1 tablespoon butter
Combine the cornstarch and sugar in a medium saucepan. Stir in the water. Add the egg yolks, zest, and lemon juice. Cook over medium heat, stirring with a whisk often, until the mixture comes to a boil. Cook for one more minute. Set aside to cool.
For the topping:
Cool White Whipped Cream Frosting
Prepare to whip one cup heavy whipping cream with three tablespoons sugar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla.
In a cup, mix 1/2 teaspoon unflavored gelatin powder with one tablespoon cold water. Heat it in the microwave for 6 to 8 seconds, and then stir again. Repeat. If the granules are not dissolved, repeat a third time.
In a bowl, whip the whipping cream and granulated sugar. While the gelatin is still hot, drizzle it into the whipped cream as you are whipping鈥攄o not turn the mixer off. (If the gelatin cools, it will solidify. If it is not mixed as it hits the whipping cream, droplets will solidify in your frosting.)
Add the vanilla. Continue beating until the frosting forms stiff peaks. Frost your cake. The frosting should keep its form for two days or more if refrigerated.
To assemble:
1. With a long-bladed, serrated knife, split the cake horizontally.
2. Spread the lemon filling on the bottom half of the cake. Place the top half on the filling.
3. Frost the cake.
Since the filling includes eggs and the frosting includes milk, this cake should be refrigerated.chooze and enjoy
Buy an Angel Food cake and frost it with cool whip that's been mixed in with Chocolate instant pudding. (make the pudding with 1/2 the milk required, then fold the pudding mixture in with cool whip) Wa-la! Happy Birthday cake! Yummmy
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