Chocolate Crockpot Cake

This was in a crockpot recipe book I have and I've wanted to try for quite some time.

Decadent Chocolate Delight

1 pkg chocolate cake mix

1 cup sour cream

1 cup chocolate chips

1 cup water

4 eggs

3/4 cup vegetable oil

1 pkg instant chocolate pudding mix

Spray inside of crockpot with cooking spray.

Mix all ingredients in crockpot. (mix well)

Cook on LOW for 6-8 hours, HIGH for 3-4 hours.

Serve warm or cold with ice cream. ☺

*Side note: Cooking time will vary depending on the size of your crockpot. I used the 6 qt and mine was done under 2 hours, so keep that in mind.



Lemon Iced Cake

Mmmm.... Lemon cake.

Don't mind my not very pretty cake. I was in a hurry and had to get the cake out of the pan without letting it cool down a little.

You can do this in a bundt pan or a normal 9x13. It will just take longer to cook in the bundt pan. (50-60 min instead of 30ish)

Lemon Iced Cake

2 c. Flour

1-1/2 c Sugar

1 T Baking Powder

1-1/2 t Vanilla

3/4 c Oil

4 Eggs

2/3 c. Milk

1 pkg Lemon Jello mix

1 t Lemon extract or Lemon Juice

Mix all ingredients for 2 minutes. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes for 9x13 pan

Pull out warm cake and poke holes in cake, then pour lemon icing over the top

Lemon Icing

2 c. Powdered Sugar

1/3 c. Lemon Juice

I like to pour about half of it while the cake is warm, and then wait until it's cooled down, thicken the icing a little and pour the rest over the top.

I didn't have time to do that in these photos though.

Icing



Andes Mint Chocolate Cake

I have some family members that are crazy about mint chocolate stuff, so I made this for a family gathering.

Andes Mint Chocolate Cake

1 chocolate cake mix

1/2 cup sugar

1 (3.9-ounce) package chocolate instant pudding mix

1 cup oil

4 large eggs

1 (8-ounce) container sour cream

1 teaspoon peppermint extract
 
Andes Mint candies, chopped (how many is your preference)
 
Heavily grease and flour a 12-cup Bundt pan. Set aside.




Combine first 7 (and about 1/2 - 1 cup of chopped Andes candies) ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Beat at low speed with an electric mixer just until combined. Beat at high speed 2 minutes. Pour batter into prepared pan.



Bake at 350° for 50 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 15 minutes; remove from pan, and cool on wire rack. Place on serving plate, frost and sprinkle on Andes candies.

For the frosting I just mixed in 1/4 teaspoon of peppermint extract into a can of frosting and added some green food coloring.

Rum Cake

I've been wanting to make a rum cake for some time now, so I finally got around to making one!

Rum Cake

2/3 c chopped pecans

1 pkg of yellow cake mix

1 pkg of vanilla pudding mix

4 eggs

1 c water

1/2 c butter, soft

2 T Rum extract (or 1/2 c rum)

Glaze

1/4 c butter

1/2 c brown sugar

3 T water

1/2 t rum extract (or 2 T rum)

Oven 325. Bake for 45-60 minutes

Grease and flour your pan, pour the chopped nuts in the bottom.

Mix cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water, butter and rum together and pour batter in pan over the nuts. Bake in the oven at 325 for 45-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

For the glaze, mix ingredients in a saucepan, bring to a boil and let boil for a minute

When cake is done cooking and has cooled for a few minutes, transfer out of pan. Prick with a fork and brush glaze over the cake.

Let it finish cooling and eat!

Cake Balls

I've heard about cake balls forever now and I've been wanting to make them. I was in a hurry as usual, so I rushed these and they aren't very pretty. To make them more special you can put sprinkles on. These are definitely a hit with the kids.

Cake Balls

1 cake, baked

1 container frosting (or enough for one cake)

Chocolate or Candy coating for dipping

I started while the cake was a little warm still

Crumble it up with a fork

Add the frosting (I'm partial to rainbow chip) and mix it up

Form into balls, whatever size you want and put into the freezer to set

Melt your chocolate (I used Vanilla Almond Bark) and dip the balls in and let the coating set.

Lemon Pudding Cake

So I love Lemon stuff and I've been wanting to make this recipe for sometime now. :-) This cake isn't overbearing on the lemon, in fact, I wanted it a little stronger with lemon so I tweaked mine. This recipe is from the Kraft Food and Family magazine, but they call it Warm Winter Lemon Cake.

Lemon Pudding Cake

1 Yellow Cake mix
2 c Cold Milk
1 1/4 c Water (I did 1 c Water, and 1/4 c Lemon Juice)
2 pkgs Lemon Instant Pudding (I've tried it with the cooked stuff too and it worked)
1/3 c Sugar
Powdered Sugar

Mix up your cake mix like it says to on the box and pour batter in a greased 9X13 pan.

In another bowl, mix up the pudding mix, milk, water, and sugar until well blended.

Pour the pudding mix on top of the cake batter. The picture above is what mine looked like after I poured it over the top. Cook for 55-60 minutes at 350 or until toothpick comes out clean.

Sprinkle with powdered sugar

Spoon into serving dishes, and store leftovers in the fridge.

Black Midnight Cake

I love Betty Crocker and I still think one of the best cook books ever is the Betty Crocker cookbook printed about 1974. I've been making this particular chocolate cake recipe for many years now (I'm so old, heh). I found that this recipe was the best for me when decorating cakes, this cake was easier to work with and it tasted good. :-)


Black Midnight Cake


2 -1/4 c Flour
1- 2/3 c Sugar
2/3 c Cocoa
1-1/4 t Baking Soda
1 t Salt
1/4 t Baking Powder
1-1/4 c Water
3/4 c Margarine (shortening)
2 Eggs
1 t Vanilla


Bake @ 350 for 30-40 minutes

Throw the dry ingredients in there

Mix them up.

Add your liquids.

Get your pan ready. Spray.

If it's a cake you will be wanting to take out of the pan, then throw some flour in there and a get flour on all the greased parts.

This makes getting it out of the pan much easier. (You could use cocoa powder instead)

Back to mixing in the wet ingredients. Beat the eggs in.

I filled this pan up a little too full.

Yum. Cupcakes.
While the cake is baking, I whip up the frosting. And frosting was on sale so I cheated and bought some plain vanilla frosting, added 4 oz of Cream Cheese and a tub of Cool Whip. Try it! It cuts down on the sweetness but makes it light and fluffy.
I mixed up some pink/red in a separate bowl.
My beautiful cake that overflowed its pan.
Frosted cupcakes.

Decorated

Back to the cake. Slice your cake into 3 layers (or two, whatever) Throw some frosting down on your base to hold the cake in place.

Put down the first layer, I thinned down some Raspberry jam with water and spread it over the cake.

Spread a layer of frosting over the jam. (this part is kind of messy) and repeat with the next layer. Don't put jam on the very top layer though. ;-) The point of piping the frosting on is to get close to the edge and seal it. I FAILED! I don't have a brain, but I did manage to do it right on the next layer.

After it's all assembled, finish frosting the cake.

All done.