Today was the perfect opportunity to test it out. We are having a BBQ to celebrate my husband getting promoted. So, I figured, make him a staff sergeant cake!
To start out; I usually use a box cake because it saves time and effort for me. To make a box cake taste a little better though, all you really need is a few things. To make a box cake taste homemade you will need: 1 box cake mix, 3 whole eggs, 1 cup granulated sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 cup sour cream, 1 tbsp vanilla extract, and a dash of salt. **Note: use cake flour if you can.
Whisk the dry ingredients together in a bowl. Mix the wet ingredients together and add half of the dry mix. Mix well, then add the rest of the dry ingredients. Beat well, about 3 minutes. Preheat oven to 300 and grease pans. Bake at 300 for 20-30 minutes (depending on size of cakes, I used 2 8inch round cake pans and baked for 20 minutes). Then turn heat up to 325 and bake for an equal amount of time. **These cakes are delicious!
I used to have issues with my cake crumbling when frosting it (even after letting it cool completely). This time around I put the cake in the fridge overnight before crumb -coating it, and it make all the difference. I crumb-coated, then place back in the fridge. After it hardened, I finished frosting it and placed back in the fridge. This is the link for the tutorial for transferring an image, Image Transfer. I made my image while waiting for the crumb coat to harden and then placed in the freezer. The image for this cake was very simple.
The frosting is a homemade buttercream frosting that is very simple to make. 4.5 cups powdered sugar, 1/2 cup (1 stick) softened butter, 1.5 tsp vanilla, 5-6 tbsp milk. Beat butter until creamy, add milk, sugar, and vanilla. Beat until smooth. (The blue frosting was a store bought tube because I didn't have food coloring, but it still worked well.)
**This is probably the first cake I have made that I am 100% proud of.
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