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Tractor Cake

Posted by Delightfully Doable on 10 July, 2014 None comments
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My sick little baby trying to have a good birthday! :(

My son had his birthday a couple weeks ago and as you all know, we headed to the beach to have our trip be quickly interrupted with an ER visit. Although, the first couple days were great, the last two were horrible. I state that very matter-of-fact as they were legitimately horrible.

For my sons first birthday, I didn’t get the pleasure of making his cake as we had moved 1 week prior and we were hosting dinner at our house. I also had planned a friend birthday party the following day at the zoo with lunch and cake. I had very little time to do much more than that. So, this year I was adamant that I would make my son a cake he would love; tractors!!!

I used two bread pans and baked the cake and manipulated the cake in more ways than one to turn it into a tractor. It was pretty challenging to say the least, but it worked out. I will also state that this is the first time I’ve ever made a cake into something other than a circular pretty cake. Practice makes perfection– so I hope!

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Moment of Truth: Manipulating a cake isn’t the easiest thing, especially for the first time. You make a mistake and you must keep going. Though there are many imperfections, I was thrilled to have it resemble a tractor that my son would be utterly happy about. :) The older he gets, the better I will become! :)

Easy cake pops

Posted by Delightfully Doable on 14 March, 2014 1 comments

Cake pops can take a lot of work and a lot of your precious time to compile them. After all the time spent into making delicious cake pops the family devours them leaving you with nothing but crumbs and begging for more.

Do you ever think about the amount of time you spend in the kitchen slaving over breakfast, lunch, dinners, and tasty desserts? I don’t think about it as I know the hours are beyond what I can count. Although my husband is an accountant I still refrain from asking him as I still like to believe ignorance is bliss. :)

These are pretty good and I freeze them and pull one out at a time to enjoy throughout the month. (Okay maybe I take a few out at a time)

Here’s what you do…

Ingredients:

  • 1 box yellow cake mix
  • ¼ cup oil
  • 2 eggs
  • Water (as per the box of cake mix)
  • 8 oz Sweet cream frosting
  • 2- 16oz bag of chocolate (I used semi-sweet and white chocolate for a variety)

Bake the cake according to package instructions.

Let cool fully! Once cooled take a butter knife and slice through every which way to crumble to cake easily and into small pieces.

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For easy use, in a stand mixer combine the cake crumbs with the frosting.

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Roll into small balls and place in muffins cups or line up in a 9×13 pan.

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Place in the fridge for 2 hours.

Once cold, melt chocolate and 1 tbsp of butter (optional) together until fully melted.

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Dip each individual ball into chocolate and place back in the pan. Keep in the fridge.

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Once chocolate is hardened you can drop them into a plastic bag and keep in the freezer if so desired.

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