Sweet Bakings--A Few Re-peerings

Last month, I blogged about sweet bakings, recipe undertakings spread over 13 years of blogging. Recipes I spotted on the web inspired me to experiment, not merely replicate. i came up with 28 cooky recipes and 19 cake and cake-ish recipes. ... Maybe surprisingly, I'd done several of the recipes seldom since blogging about them. A few never-agains are because a particular ingredient, usually a cake mix, is either no longer available, formulation is different, or weight is different (mostly less). Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Pt 2 Sweet Bakings--Cakes, Cupcakes, and Mini-muffins

In the cake-centric video of 19 items, I list my blog catalog number with the article title and finished-item image (newest at top). Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Low-effort Choco Chip Cake Mix Cookies

 

How low effort are these cookies? Only four ingredients, for starters. The cake mix itself conveniently includes the flour, sugar, and leavening. You mix eggs and oil together, mix in the powder, and fold in the chips. Dispense, bake, cool. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Lemon Juice Aid 1, Let There Be Cake!

Make a lemon cake by adding lemon juice to non-lemon flavor cake mixture and vanilla frosting. … I've tended to buy "classic" yellow cake (good color, uncomplicated add-in ingredients), especially when they've gone on sale for 88¢ each. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Zebra Cake, Using Two Half Boxes of Mix

*** 11/19/2016
Accompanying video now available at YouTube—"Zebra Cake, Using Two Half Boxes of Mix"

Last month, I wrote up "Zebra Cake, Using Marble Cake Mix", which differs from this zebra cake only slightly. Try different varieties of chocolate (fudgy, devil's food, …) and lighter color cake (white, yellow, vanilla). Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Zebra Cake, Using Marble Cake Mix

*** 10/21/2016
Accompanying video now available at YouTube—"Zebra Cake, Using Marble Cake Mix"

I'd been intrigued by a cute Duff zebra cake mix. (Love those stripes!) But it was so much more expensive than household names like Betty Crocker, Duncan Hines, and Pillsbury. A particularly easy, non-Duff way to make a yummy zebra cake with using only one box of mix is getting marble cake mix. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Duncan Hines Perfect Size Cake--Off Golden Path

*** 7/4/2016
Accompanying video now available at YouTube—"Duncan Hines Perfect Size Cake--Off Golden Path"

Duncan Hines debuted its Perfect Size cake line about a year ago. The ingredients make a smallish single-layer cake. The kit includes cake mix powder, a 6" paper pan with detachable liner, and frosting powder. Read the entire article about my deviation from the instructions and comment there, please.

EZ Mini M&M Confetti Cookies

*** 7/4/2016
Accompanying video now available at YouTube—"EZ Mini M&M Confetti Cookies"

My cake mix cooky recipe is the summer counterpart (summer-temperature tolerant) to my winter cake mix cooky recipe "Minty Choco Chip Cake Mix Cookies". I wanted to bake some cookies that have chocolate that melts in your mouth, not in your hand. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Those Two-Tone Confetti Cupcakes

Last month, I made Cinnamon Two-Tone Cupcakes with 1/2 box of yellow cake mix, using Wilton two-tone cake inserts. I observed that the interior columns of the cakes were blobby. This time, for the other half box, instead of a cinnamon and nutmeg mix for the interior part, I used 3 tablespoons of rainbow jimmies. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Cinnamon Two-Tone Cupcakes

This recipe makes cupcakes with cinnamony center column, using Wilton cupcake inserts. I include links to a .pdf file and YouTube video. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Confetti Cupcake Bites

My recipe makes half-size cupcakes, using nonpareils and jimmies in two half batches during one baking session. Contrast the results of the sprinkle types, and decide on your own single or duo sprinkle-type morsels. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Rainbow Nonpareil Cake Mix Cookies

Multicolor sprinkle decorations for packaged cookies, cakes, and cake mixes tend to more often be jimmies than nonpareils. These cookies vary from the ones I made when I used the Betty Crocker Rainbow Chip cake mix. Instead of using cake mix that already includes multicolor jimmies, I used basic cake mix and added rainbow nonpareils. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Baking Cookies with Trader Joe Cake MIx

Instead of the standard cake mix that weighs about 15.25 ounces or so to make cake mix cookies, the Trader Joe's cake mix weighed 28 ounces. This baking experiment required some improvisation that produced results that differ from my standard cake mix cookies. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

EZ Buttery Confetti Cake Mix Cookies

This recipe features Betty Crocker Party Rainbow Chip cake mix. Using butter makes the cookies softer and fluffier than using oil. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Krusteaz Choco Caramel Squares

These sweet-tooth munchies have a fudge-brownie cooky base, topped with non-nut nougat and chopped nuts. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Minty Choco Chip Cake Mix Cookies

This recipe uses the other half of chocolattey cake mix that I used in the choco cranberry sauce cake mix cupcakes. Also uses half chocolate chips and half crème de menthe baking chips. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Choco Cranberry Sauce Cake Mix Cupcakes

This simple recipe has three ingredients besides spray oil—a 14-oz can of jellied cranberry sauce, a box of chocolaty cake mix, and eggs. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Mini-cupcake Offload: Pan Type & Prep, Batter Amt

Mini-cupcake experiment of using spray oil and flour or spray oil alone in silicone and aluminum pans. (Includes recipe for Choco Cherry Choco Chip Mini-cupcakes.) Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2014/02/mini-cupcake-offload-pan-type-and-prep.html and comment there, please.

Diff Kinda Choco-chip Cake Mix Cookies

Another cake mix cooky recipe, this one features marble cake mix, chocolate chips, and coconut. I also include a table with caloric info if including the chips and coconut, omitting one or the other, or both. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2013/06/diff-kinda-choco-chip-cake-mix-cookies.html and comment there, please.

PC Cookies

Personal Computer? Politically Correct? Printed Circuit? Peanut Cluster? Nah! I wanted to think of a way to recall main ingredients for this cookie recipe. Sooo, using a recognizable pair of letters would help—pecan coconut. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2013/05/pc-cookies.html and comment there, please.