How do you eat a whimsical (topsy-turvey) cake?

I’m going to be making a lopsided cake for a girl’s birthday soon using marshmallow fondant, and it’s probably going to be three tiers. If you use dowells, do you have to take the dowells out before you cut the cake? What about the Single plate system? Or do you disassemble the cake in order to cut it? Do you really need dowlles or plates or anything if you’re just driving it 20 minutes away?

Also, does anyone have a good recipe for buttercream icing, or a recipe for a sturdy cake mix (as in pound cake? Or do you find that it’s just as easy to use a Pillsbury with pudding in the mix cake?).

Thanks,
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This guy uses carpet tape… how is this done and why?

Root Beer Float Cake?

So this year for Mother’s Day my family decided to make things easier on all of us, with church and other in-laws, to get together Saturday evening. With that in mind, my husband and I decided to have his mom and step-dad over on Sunday for Mother’s Day lunch. I asked my husband what kind of dessert his mom likes and he mentioned root beer floats. So I was thinking of doing the alternative of a root beer float cake. I have never made it before, but people I used to work with have.
I have come across two similar cake recipes. One calling for yellow cake mix and the other calling for white cake mix. Have you ever had this cake before? Is it good? What do you recommend, the white or yellow? I know it calls for a whipped topping “icing”. Do you serve it with vanilla ice cream too?
Thanks in advance!

whats an easy to make christmas cake recipe?

I’d like to made my own christmas cake this year. are these cakes hard to make? do i need a food processor, or can I use a hand mix?

Cake like chocolate chip cookies??

I already asked for this kind of recipe once but haven’t gotten the recipe I’m looking for. I did make cookies with a cake mix but they were not ” cake like”. The cookie recipe I am looking for would be very light and fluffy, kind of like mini cupcakes but cookies. They are very soft and use mini choc chips. Any ideas???? I am guessing that they would have to be mixed with a mixer like a cake is and are probably really easy to make, like throw all the ingredients in a bowl and mix. I have a recipe for chocolate cookies that have the texture I am looking for and i thought about just omitting the chocolate but I’m afaid they will be really dry and not form correctly. I would prefer recipes that have been previously tried!! THANKS!!!

What is the best cake mix brand for a wedding cake?

I am baking my own wedding cake and was thinking about using a mix. Which one would be the best for that? Brand and flavor?

I have recipes for scratch too, but I think that using a mix is probably easier. What do you recommend?

I already have the cake pans for the three different sizes.
We are getting married in a very extremely small ceremony. No out of town guests are coming. The reception is a hot dog and beer cook-out with some other food to be served as well. If I buy a cake, then I will have spent more on the cake than on my dress and everything else combined.

Please don’t give me advice on buying a cake, I am going to make one. I just have not decided whether or not to use a mix or do it from scratch.

I call our wedding a “church-elopement” because we are having the same thing as elopement but it will be in a church. It is going to be so small and so inexpensive that a home made cake is appropriate.

How to make white cake mix taste like coconut?

my mom wants a coconut flavored cake for her birthday. I want to make one for her. Should I use imitation coconut extract? if so how much? Or are there any other recipes that would work that are fairly easy?

What is a tasty and simple strawberry jello cake recipe?

I saw a recipe for a strawberry jello cake in a magazine at the grocery store that looked really good and really easy, but I can’t find one like it anywhere online. I know that it used a white cake mix, a box of jello, and strawberry sugar wafers for a garnish. I want to find a recipe where you add the jello to the cake before you bake it, not one where you poke holes and pour the jello over it. I think the magazine that I saw the recipe in was Good Housekeeping, but I’m not 100% sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

do you have any easy low fat recipes….for example here a couple….?

I have been on a diet and lost 35lbs so far, I am SO TIRED of eating the same ole thing.. I want some new and EASY recipes that are low fat and low sugar would be nice (if not thats ok, I will use splenda). Like these I can share with you…Cake: one cake mix (use dry powder only) mix in a can of diet soda, bake and eat!!! its that easy (dark soda for dark cake, clear soda for white cake) or use ground turkey instead of hamburger in tacos with fat free sour cream and wheat shells. Or chicken breast and veggies(fresh or frozen) in a baking foil bag, bake, open bag, eat *be sure to add a pototo cut in half, then you can use fat free squirt butter and sour cream for a great baked pototo. You get the point…. enjoy these and send me some new ones PLEASE!!!!!