how to make a rainbow cake!
People seemed to miss the point that I am a 25-year-old woman on a diet with no kids. Since kids don't really need fat-free anything, there's no need to make it a soda cake, and if you don't like dye, don't make this for dinner for them every night for a month. Okay, folks, thanks for the allowance to disclaim.]
Aaannnndddd, she's back!
So I did mention something about health and/or diet food in my last post, and while this recipe is the latter, it is most certainly not to be confused with the former. I posted about my rainbow cake here, and it got a lot of traffic on over to my livejournal, and everyone wanted the "recipe." The cool thing is that if you're making something so distractingly colourful, people will think it's delicious no matter what.
This presents me with the option to use an old Weight Watchers trick—the one-point cupcake. Except I'm making a cake and I created my own frosting. Kinda. I've seen it done before, but I swear I made it up first!
This cake is suitable for many occasions:
A child's birthday
Your mom's birthday
Coming out to your conservative parents
If you're a lesbian, they'll be thrilled that you won't be forgoing your feminine kitchen duties.
If you're the kind of gay dude who makes cakes for your parents, they were probably on to you anyway.
Coming out to your conservative parents on your mother's birthday
Your friend's jam band CD release party
. . . so I'm sure you'll find a use for this recipe soon.
And of course, you can use any white cake recipe you'd like. This is just how I make it because I have delusions of wearing size 2 someday.
Oh yes, and do me a favour: DOUBLE THE RECIPE AS PHOTOGRAPHED HERE!! The recipe at the bottom is accurate, but this made for a really REALLY small cake, and there was not nearly enough frosting, especially considering its lightness.
Okay, on with the ingredients.
That's all. Notice the lack of fat in here? Mmmmmm . . . chemicals. Though I don't need to defend my method thanks to the double-dub (WW) aspect, even when I make a "real" cake I usually use box mix because let's face it: Betty's been doing it way longer than I have, and has pretty much perfected the art.
Pour a can of soda (16 oz) 2-16 oz cans of soda into the cake mix two boxes of cake mix. No eggs, no oil, no water, no sweat.
The action shots weren't too thrilling. Now we measure it.
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