Any Cake Makers out there ?

[Pocahontas]

It would be a major feat to find a cake at 100 bucks or under! They are 3-4 dollars a slice and if you are having a big wedding they can easily get up to $700 plus...maybe I should get into the cake making busine$$!

[Pocahontas]

My mother bakes the best chocolate chip cake. One of the main ingredients is chocolate pudding mix. The best part though is the icing. It is a thick fudgy layer with another layer of choc. chip morsels under that! It is always a hit for the fudge and cake lover! Absolutely divine!

Here's a close copy!

[Isabella]

Originally Posted by Pocahontas

My mother bakes the best chocolate chip cake. One of the main ingredients is chocolate pudding mix. The best part though is the icing. It is a thick fudgy layer with another layer of choc. chip morsels under that! It is always a hit for the fudge and cake lover! Absolutely divine!

Here's a close copy!

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Would you mind getting the recipe for me. I have been looking for a good chocolate chip recipe. Does she cook it in a Bundt pan?

[Pocahontas]

Here it is and yes she uses a bundt pan.
Cake:
1 box duncan hines golden butter yellow cake mix
1-4 oz.box jello instant choc. pudding
1-4 oz. box jello instant vanilla pudding
1 and 1/2 c. milk
4 eggs
1/2 c. wesson oil
1 small pkg.semi sweet choc. chip morsels
Mix ingredients together in order listed. Grease and flour bundt pan. Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

Icing
1 box powdered sugar
1 stick margarine
3 T. cocoa powder
1t. vanilla extract
1/4c. milk

Melt margarine in saucepan, add cocoa. Bring to boil for about 3 mins. Remove from heat and add vanilla. Pour mixture into mixing bowl with powdered sugar, then add about 1/4 cup milk to spreading consistency and then ice the cooled cake.

This recipe has been a favorite of mine and all my childhood friends. They still request Mom to bake them a cake when they are coming into town. ENJOY!

[Texasbelle]

Let me tell you Isabella how you eat that cake. Just take and rub it all over your back side. It's where it's going to eventually end up so just go ahead and put it there from the get go. Save yourself some trouble!!!!

[Isaac-Saxxon]

Originally Posted by Texasbelle

Let me tell you Isabella how you eat that cake. Just take and rub it all over your back side. It's where it's going to eventually end up so just go ahead and put it there from the get go. Save yourself some trouble!!!!

and just what do you mean by that Cakemaker Belle ? are you talking about dropping the kids off at the pool ?

[rhertz]

Originally Posted by Texasbelle

Let me tell you Isabella how you eat that cake. Just take and rub it all over your back side. It's where it's going to eventually end up so just go ahead and put it there from the get go. Save yourself some trouble!!!!

Actually if you rub it all over your back side, it is your hubby who is going to gain weight! Someone has to lick it off! You might actually lose weight with the ensuing exercise.

[Pocahontas]

Mom would probably have a heart attack is she knew her cake was being used as an aphrodisiac!!!!!!!! But hey us women do love our chocolate any way we can get it!

[Texasbelle]

Originally Posted by rhertz

Actually if you rub it all over your back side, it is your hubby who is going to gain weight! Someone has to lick it off! You might actually lose weight with the ensuing exercise.

Hey Rhertz, if your wife likes chocolate you might try this at your house!

[Isaac-Saxxon]

Originally Posted by rhertz

Actually if you rub it all over your back side, it is your hubby who is going to gain weight! Someone has to lick it off! You might actually lose weight with the ensuing exercise.

Rhertz you are the one with the bright idea of how to lose weight by chasing your wife around When I see her next time I will ask how she likes her chocolate ? and if she has learned to flush yet ???

[Texasbelle]

Originally Posted by Pocahontas

It would be a major feat to find a cake at 100 bucks or under! They are 3-4 dollars a slice and if you are having a big wedding they can easily get up to $700 plus...maybe I should get into the cake making busine$$!

Are you kidding me? I can decorate a cake and at that rate I should have made about $100 bucks yesterday off the one I did for fun. Just kidding. It was a birthday cake someone's daughters. They requested something querky for a girl so this is it. I only do this for fun.



You know Isaac, look in the Weddings section in the newspaper and see who is doing the cakes at the weddings listed. Try some of those people. We went to the Tilley-Hester wedding a couple of weekends ago and whomever did that cake was fantastic and I know her name was listed in the paper.

[Pocahontas]

Very nice!! Did you take a class to learn how to do the decorating? That is very cute! I've often thought of taking a cake decorating class because I enjoy baking so much!

[Texasbelle]

I did take a class at this cake store that is on Bert Kouns at St. Vincent. There is a great lady named Gloria that teaches there. You can also take classes at Hobby Lobby or Michaels. I liked Gloria's though. Smaller classes and she's hilarious. It is a lot of fun and if you like to bake, you will be able to have something fun to do with your baking skills. Here is a website you need to visit for inspiration (it's free to be a member):

www.cakecentral.com

This is a picture of a cake I did for a friend's daughter's birthday. It was one I did when I was first learning. Oh I forgot I am still just learning!

[Pocahontas]

Oh wow I love the purse cake!!! How often do the classes meet and how long before I could bake one that looks like that? I will look at the site more thoroughly...thanks!

[Texasbelle]

The classes meet once a week for maybe a month. There are classes during the day or the evening. The purse cake is easy actually. It looks much, much more difficult than reality. The letters I "painted" on with vodka (!) and coloring. The accents such as the handle were made with fondant which is like playing with clay.

I have a lot of fun doing the cakes. I only do them for family or friends and would love to do more of them. Today I am going to be baking individual cakes for my husband's staff. They were all drooling over the zebra cake so I am surprising them tomorrow!