Saturday, February 11, 2012

Sweet Tooth


Valentine's Day is just around the corner; a time for date night, boxes of candy, Red Velvet Cake, chocolate covered strawberries, and big heart-shaped sugar cookies dripping with icing and red sparkles.  I try not to eat that delicious stuff anymore; more to the point, I realize that I can't make it, knowing that the leftover cake or cookies will sit on my counter and taunt me for days after.  I stumbled upon this recipe for individual cakes last  week - while I won't say that it's super healthy, I will tell you that it curbs my sweet tooth when I'm craving something sweet after dinner.  I can make one portion at a time, it "bakes" super fast in the microwave and, if I'm feeling especially gluttonous, I can add a little bit of light Cool Whip on the top.

Adding the little candy hearts makes it Valentine's appropriate and it's what I'll be giving my kiddos on Tuesday so I don't have an entire cake or a bunch of heart shaped cookies hanging out in my house for the rest of the week.  And, if I'm feeling especially loving this weekend, which I must say that I am, I might even make it for them tonight, too!

I hope you're weekend is lovely...my baby started sleeping in a big-boy bed today and we are inching slowly into potty training.  More on that next week...


Mix together in a large zip-lock bag the powdered mix only:

  • 1 box Angel Food Cake Mix 
  • 1 box any kind of Cake Mix*

When you're ready to make your individual cake, mix 3 tablespoons of the dry cake mix and 2 tablespoons of water in a small microwave safe bowl.  Microwave on high for about 1 minute.  Allow to cool a minute before taking it out of the microwave.  It makes kind of a spongy little cake.

*I used Devils Food Cake mix because, hello...chocolate!  But you could use whatever cake mix you wanted: spiced cake mix, strawberry cake mix, yellow cake mix.  The possibilities are endless...as long as one of your boxes of mix is the Angel Food Cake mix!

3 comments:

  1. This completely blows my mind! And they actually taste good too?? Could you put chocolate chips in the mix?

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  2. Wow! Love this! I'll be trying this out very soon! Thanks for sharing!!

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  3. I'll admit I was a little leery of how they were going to taste, but - desperate times sometimes call for desperate measures and I was totally surprised that these really do taste good! Tara - to answer your questions - hells yes!! Last night I put a couple of butterscotch chips in my batter and almost died of happiness. They don't melt all the way, so you get these little pockets of gooey-ness. Amazing.

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