June 12, 2009

Simple Cakes to Impress your Friends


You can make a beautiful and delicious cake which impresses all your friends from a store bought cake mix. I do this all the time. If you want to give a plain cake mix a little something; just add one simple ingredient and you will be surprised how much it adds to the cake. My favorite combinations are:

devils food cake + peanut butter chips,
vanilla cake + chopped strawberries,
chocolate cake + mini chocolate chips
and
vanilla cake + semi-sweet & white chocolate swirled chips


And even better, your frosting can come from a can. I actually prefer the taste of pre-made frosting to homemade buttercream. It is light and fluffy and easy to spread.

1 comments:

Mary Beth said...

Cute post--I love the photo. I prefer to make a from scratch cake but I think most of my family likes a fluffy mix cake. Homemade cakes are just denser--there's no getting around that. I prefer homemade frosting too, even on a mix cake. I do like your chip combinations very much and will maybe try one for my daughter's birthday (she loves a mix cake)!