Boxed cake mix isn't my thing. I'm never impressed. But sometimes it is what I have on hand and have time for. A trick to improve them: Throw in an appropriate flavored jello pudding and an extra egg. It makes the cake lighter and moister.
These are made from a french vanilla cake mix with a box of french vanilla pudding thrown in and the aforementioned extra egg.
What this project was really about today was to have something to put icing on. I just was in the mood for frosting. So I tried a version of a quick vanilla buttercream frosting. It turned out great and really was super easy.
Ingredients:
3 cups confectioners sugar
1 cup room temperature butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or another extract in a flavor you love)
1-2 Tablespoons of whipping cream
On low- mix together sugar and butter. Once it's blended, increase the speed to medium and beat for 2-3 minutes. Then add the extract and cream and beat for another minute until it's the consistency you like.
For the pink ones shown here - i added Marichino cherry juice for color.. it added a hint of flavor, but not enough to matter. A cherry liqueur would have worked better but this is what we had.
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