This cake like all the others in the book I'm using, 1 Mix 100 Cakes, builds off of the cake mix I chronicled in my last blog post. One thing that left me flustered, once again, it looked exactly like it was pictured. Even with my little experience in baking my mother's ever occasional cake never turns out how it does on the box. OK, now to the baking! The actual cake was just the cake mix with a filling and jam in between. In addition to the regular ingredients this also included:
- 1/4 cup of unsalted butter
- 1 cup of confectioners' sugar (plus extra for dusting)
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp strawberry jelly (I used marionberry, and it turned out fine)
After baking in the oven at 350˚F for 25 minutes I pulled out the golden cakes and let them cool for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, I was doing the filling which consisted of all of the above not including the jelly. It says to beat, but I recommend smushing with a wooden spoon to get all the lumps out. Then, I beated it with my beater, but I was using a small bowl and drops of butter went everywhere! I transferred the small amount of ingredients to a bowl too big for them. It worked, but the beater still flicked the filling into my hair and all over my apron.
After that I just spread it across the top of one cake and spread the jelly on the bottom of the other cake. I put them together and violá! A miracle! It looked so beautiful, I almost doubted eating it. I sprinkled a little powdered sugar before serving and it was picture perfect. The cake was very easy to make, only took about 1 hour 15 minutes (including cooking time and cooling time) 8 out of 8 people found the cake more delicious than the boxed Christmas cake we made. Here's the final result (sorry for the bad images, they will improve soon. The pictures also don't do the cake justice):
Unfortunately, the night we ate the cake a cat got into the house (we're still in Puerto Rico) and ate the final two pieces of cake :(
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Sophia
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