"Julie Bove" > wrote in
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>
> "kilikini" > wrote in message
> ...
>>I need a favor from you guys and you always come through every time I
>>ask,
>> so..... I'm askin'.
>>
>> I'm supposed to help with the menu of my friend's daughter's 17th
>> birthday next month on the 23. They're planning on serving
>> (ahem)......ready? (Keep
>> in mind, these are my friends who eat processed food and if it can't
>> be nuked, they won't eat it because they don't understand how to cook
>> it.)
>>
>> Frozen, pre-cooked meatballs with Hunts BBQ sauce.
>> Chips - premade onion dip
>> Oscar Meyer triangle ham sandwiches on wonder bread with mustard
>> Crudites with onion dip
>>
>> I've offered to make the meatballs, I've offered to even make lasagna
>> - nope, they want the frozen pre-made meatballs and sandwiches.
>>
>> In any case, the daughter wants a 3 tiered cake. That one, somehow,
>> falls to me because it's not covered under their government
>> foodstamps because it
>> would be a special order. Amanda, the birthday girl, wants a white
>> cake with pink frosting. Does anyone have an excellent recipe for a
>> white cake?
>> I need moist, delectable, finger-lickin' good. In other words, I
>> have to have something taste good at this party for 60 people! It
>> must be a white cake with pink icing.
>>
>> Help me! Every time I've made a cake, it's come out dry. I need to
>> make this the highlight of the evening. Please. Please. I've got
>> to do this right.
>
> Cake is one of those things that I found works just as well from a mix
> as it does from scratch. With a few exceptions. Like chocolate
> tweed. But even that can be faked pretty well by adding grated
> chocolate to a yellow cake mix.
>
> I just checked allrecipes.com which is where I usually get my best
> recipes from. I look for ones that got really good reviews. Alas,
> with the white cakes, there were none that got all good reviews.
> Sorry.
>
>
>

see my Stacy's cake I posted earlier, hell never mind. Just use whie cake
mix instead of yellow and nix the chocolate, glaze and walnuts but use
the pudding (say vanilla) and sour cream options and bake in pans. Maybe
double or triple recipe to feed 60.

What to use as filling? between layers? Jam, nutella, caramel sauce?


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Stacy's Chocolate Chip Cake

alan, cakes, tested

pam to prep tube pan
flour for dusting
4 oz german chocolate; * see note
1 18.25 oz pkg plain yellow cake mix (2 layer cake)
1 3.4 oz pkg pistashio instant puddingt mix
1 cup whole milk
-----or -----
1 cup sour cream plus 1/4 cup water
1 cup vegetable oil
4 large eggs
1 cup walnuts; crushed
1.5 cup mini semi sweet chocolate chips
icing sugar for garnish; see notes*

Place rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 325F. Pam a 10 inch
bunt pan then dust with flour; shake out excess. Finely Grate german
chocolate.(German chocolate is a sweet Baking Chocolate a good substute
is
milk chocolate).

*German Chocolate note: Use 2 cups instead of 1.5 cups of mini chocolate
chips if you can't find German Chocolate. You are using mini chocolate
chips so they don't all sink to the bottom.
Add cake mix, pudding mix ,milk or sour cream (add 1/4 cup water if
using sourcream),oil and eggs to a large mixing bowl. Mix on low speed
for
a minute then fold in the grated chocolate and scrape down the sides.
Increase speed to medium and mix for 2 minutes more, scraping down the
sides if required. fold in the chocolate chips. The batter should look
well
blended and chocolate chips evenly distributed. Pour batter into prepared
tube pan. Bake cake till golden brown and springs back when lightly
pressed
50 to 60 minutes.

Dust with icing sugar or use Chocolate Glaze 1 cup sifted
confectioner's sugar 2 tablespoons cocoa 2 tablespoons skim milk or
strong
coffee (I used coffee) In a small bowl stir together sifted
confectioner's
sugar, cocoa, milk, and vanilla until smooth. Add a few drops of milk, if
needed, to achieve desired consistency.

additions : the 1/4 cup water as the batter was too thick ,walnuts to
take
away from the sweetness, pistashio instead of vanilla pudding.

Contributor: modified from Cake Doctor CookBook



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