…but it might still be cheating to use cake mix. Sorry. I’ll work on it sometime WHEN I’M NOT TAKING FINALS.
Some combinations recently used:
- Lee mama’s friend’s son’s old home ec class recipe. Enough possessives?
- Pineapple upside-down pistachio cake
- Orange chocolate cake
What do these entail, you ask? (Well, you didn’t ask. But, I’m telling…because this is much more enjoyable than studying for finals.) The first uses Kahlua and Vodka. I took it to my bioethics section. There was some leftover, so when Zach and I went to Urban Outfitter to return my jelly shoes before lecture, someone asked me for a quarter. Because I had no quarter for him, he waved towards my chocolate cake and asked, “Are you gonna finish that?” Upon receiving a negatory and an offer, he took the cake–but then proceeded to ask, “Is there ginger is this?” No. There was no ginger in it. But…bizarre!
The second includes pistachio pudding mix over a bed of pineapple rings. It was for SLUgS Prom, for which I had no date. Should I have had one? Naw. Could I have had one? As it turns out, yes! Tuesday plan had too many projects, but Thursday plan turned out to be free. I just didn’t ask. Oh, well. That dress (the one from senior ball, you guys) just doesn’t handle having a date. (SigEp re-chartering banquet, anyone?)
Now, the third is a little bit special. Two people in my lab don’t eat eggs, and one of them is additionally allergic to soy. I took a chocolate cake mix, but not just any chocolate cake mix. I’ve got two boxes in front of me: Betty Crocker Super Moist Butter Recipe Chocolate does not appear to use soy in the ingredients list. Betty Crocker Super Moist Triple Chocolate Fudge, however, makes use of soy lecithin. The two are very similar, and yet…you really have to watch out. When I got up to get the second box (the one that I didn’t use), I glanced at my box of cake flour. Let me ask, WHY IS IT A PICTURE OF CHOCOLATE CAKE!? It always makes me think that, inside, the flour is gong to be brown. Anyway, back to the orange chocolate cake. The last time I baked a cake for lab, I substituted applesauce for egg. This time, I added a packet of orange gelatin (first, it wasn’t the Jell-O brand; second, I HATE JELL-O! Not the brand, just the “food product”) instead of egg. A sprinkle of powdered sugar on top (it’s in a Bundt, so it’s already pretty), and we’re good to go. I got up two hours before I had to leave for BART, so I hope it’ll be cool enough to take. Otherwise, I mean…baking this morning would be kind of useless.
