Butterfinger Cake

Lee likes to make a crazy dessert every week or so.  More and more often, it's been a pintrest find.  This one was too, kind of.  Most of the Butterfinger cakes online call for devil's food cake, but he opted for a yellow cake.  It was delicious.

This is definitely one of those things you should make for more than 2 people.  It's rich and gooey and delicious and almost a week since he made it, the two of us are still working on eating through that pan.

I'm usually like my cake, brownies and pizza cut from the middle of the pan. I don't know why, I guess I just like the soft middle of the cake better than the chewier outside crusts.  This cake is a huge exception. Don't get me wrong, the middle's awesome too, but the caramel makes a delicious crust.  Don't tell the family, my baking friends, the corners are the best part of this cake!

Aside from having delicious butterfingers on top (and seriously, if you don't like butterfingers, throw some snickers or M&M's on top, the candy doesn't really matter,) the caramel oozes through this cake without making it messy sticky, just tasty sticky.  It reminds me of those pieces of pancake that get totally drenched with syrup, the cake holds up, but the caramel stands out.

You're going to love this cake.  Make it this weekend!

Strawberry Cake

Another tasty, tasty Pintrest find!  Lee found this Farm Flavor recipe on his page and put it in the running for this week's desert.
We made a few improvements, the big one was using the bundt pan instead of a sheet pan.  We're kind of obsessed with the bundt pan.  I really love how the outside becomes chewier and encapsulates an ever moist cake inside of it.
Since its almost prime strawberry season, this is definately one you want to keep in the mix to use all of those tasty berries popping up all over! And ooohh!! Won't this be great with raspberries, blackberries or ANY berries? We'll have to experiment!
The frosting makes quite a bit.  Probably right way you need if you make a sheet cake, but too much if you use the bundt pan.  I ended up dipping strawberries in the leftovers... yummy!

St. Patrick's Day Cake Mix Cookies

Did you know that you could make cookies out of cake mix?  I had no idea! I was super excited when I came home to find a pile of tasty cookies, just in time for St. Patrick's Day.  Honestly, this was the only thing that we did to mark the occasion! 

These cookies turned out just soft enough and just a bit chewy.  They ate like a cookie and tasted like cake... so tasty! 

I'm really excited to get to do these for the other upcoming holidays... pastels for Easter, red, white and blue for July 4th, the possibilities are endless! 

Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

So Pintrest has been an obsession of mine the past few weeks.  I found these ice cream cone cupcakes and just had to have them.   I even had dreams of them.  I thought they were the most ingenious thing ever.  But then I told my mom about them and she totally burst my bubble.  Apparently these were a  delicacy for a certain second grader growing up in 1987.  I had just forgotten.

Nevertheless, I was determined to have these again.

Each week, my staff takes turns bringing treats for staff meeting.  We like to stray from the ordinary every once in a while, bacon cookies were a hit a few weeks ago.  So this week, Lee made these cups of delicousness for us.   Everyone thought they were great, but alas another mother of children of the 80’s remembered them well too!  

Cones filled with cake instead of ice cream!

Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

1 box of cake mix (we used funfetti)

2 eggs

1/3 cup of oil

Container of frosting (we used funfetti)

Ice cream cones

Cake goes all the way to the bottom!

1. Mix cake mix, egg and oil. 
2. Pour mixture into ice cream cones.  Fill them up to just below the top of the cone, place ice cream cones in muffin tin so they stay up. 
3. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until done.
4. Frost and enjoy!

 
 
Are there any recipes from your childhood you're revisiting?