I have a special place in my heart for yellow cake. I guess I have a special place for *all* cakes, but yellow is my favorite. It’s my preferred birthday cake.
Having come to these conclusions years ago, I was a bit miffed with myself when I realized the only yellow cake I’ve ever had was from a box (shout out to Duncan Hines!) and maybe it was time to make one from scratch. I surfed the net (as you do) and settled on the Basic Yellow Cake recipe from Foxy Folksy.
This is one dense cake! It was also moist and overall delicious, but then again, it’s CAKE. It has everything my tastebuds crave. This uses buttermilk in the ingredients, something that I didn’t expect to be in cakes. Is it a common ingredient? Remember, I make stuff from pre-made box mixes. Either way, I’m just wondering if this played a factor in how dense and delicious this was.
If you know me at all, you know that it was an absolute must for me to slap some frosting on this. There was no way in hell I had the ability to make cake and frosting so I did myself a favor and bought some chocolate icing at the store (shout out to Betty Crocker!). This was either incredibly smart since it increased the cake’s awesomeness rating by one hundred, or incredibly stupid, since this caused me to consume ALL THE CALORIES. But hey, I guess that’s why I joined barre class.
The cake looks yummy! I think it was incredibly smart of you to get the choc icing. And I cannot blame you at all for eating the entire thing. You have to reward yourself for not collapsing during or after your torture & tone classes. Thumbs up!
There was no way in hell I was baking a cake and making frosting. I like to pretend to be Martha Stewart but it only goes so far.
It was delicious. Zero regrets. 🙂
That’s great you tried cake making! You’ll never go back to boxed now:)
I want all the homemade cake I can find now!
It’s so good! I have to not bake unless I’m taking it somewhere so I’ll quit eating it all!
You know, now that you say it, I probably should’ve thought about taking that cake somewhere instead of just eating it! Oh well, it was enjoyed nevertheless!
I don’t think you have to share your first one!
That’s good… Because I kinda devoured it! Lol
Buttermilk makes cake super moist. I use it in my Rhubarb cake too. Your cake is not helping my sweet craving.
I had no idea that it makes cake moist! Good information to keep for future reference!
I have a constant never ending sweet craving!