I’m going to hate myself for saying this, but here goes…
Sometimes, I’m like Sandra Lee. It’s a little uncouth to use someone’s techniques (just a little! I swear!) while trashing her in the same post, but I guess I’m going to do it. She’s very annoying. I’m not quite as enchanted with the Food Network these days as I once was (for about 4 years, I didn’t really watch normal people TV), which I don’t think was really a conscious decision; it just fell out of habit. Even in my heyday, though, Sandra Lee irked me.
Her show bothered me because she seemed like she was trying too hard (one of the ultimate “un-cool” things to do in a teenaged world, right?) to be SEMI-homemade. I must admit, though, I combine her idea of using a packaged processed product with Alton Brown’s condoning of cake mix quite frequently. In fact, the cocoa chai cake was one such example.
Here’s what I did:
Ingredients
- 1 box white cake mix [incidentally, I interchange white and yellow, because I always add things, anyway]
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 cup oil
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 coup vodka
- 3 tbs Chai Latte powder (I used Trader Joe’s)
- 1 tbs cocoa powder
Protocol
- Whisk dry ingredients together
- Whisk in all the wet ingredients
- Pour into greased pan
- Bake at the proper temperature (according to the box and your vessel) for the indicated time (I used a 9″ x 13″ Pyrex, so about half an hour)
I should really use up my cake flour. But this is so delicious!
