First of all, sorry I haven't updated my blog lately! This last month has been really busy!
To get things back on a roll, I have a really simple recipe in mind that has been approved by many people! There is a story behind everything you bake, and this recipe has a good one.
The past few days, I had been babysitting for a couple. We had a blast on Thursday night! On Friday, we woke up, I took the kids to a relative's house, and then went back to the house because I had forgotten my socks (stupid I know!). As I was pulling out of the driveway to go to school, I heard a thwack, or something along those lines. You know how every once in a while you have an "oh crap" moment? Well, this was mine! I jumped out of the car and saw that I had hit the mailbox.
This made me so nervous, but I went to school in a frenzy. I told the office ladies what had happened and they said to go talk to the school's resource officer. So as I was talking to her, I called the owners and explained what happened while the officer drove over to take a look. Isn't this ridiculous!? Haha. The officer came back and said, "the good news is that it is fixable and the bad news is that I'm taking you to jail for damage to federal property," which I certainly didn't find funny even though I knew she was joking!
Luckily, I have favor at school with the staff and the maintenance guys/custodians had my back and went over to fix the mailbox. They're the best!!! I knew this was something I'd have to pay them back for, so I just waited to be told what they wanted in return.
After a few laughs, Shane oh so vaguely said, "that lemon blueberry cake is good enough, I guess" with a smirk on his face. I was so thankful for them fixing it, so my immediate response was, "you'll have Monday morning"! This is certainly the easy way out of an embarrassing situation!
Here goes the rule-defying cake recipe:
First, use two lemon cake mixes for two different 8x8 pans. (One for each pan, if you didn't catch that) Mix the ingredients according to the box and then pour it into a lightly greased and floured pan. The only thing you need to change from the box is to use only 1 tablespoon of oil instead of the massive amount the box calls for. This makes your cake nice and dense instead of close to being dried out. Put it in the oven until it doesn't wiggle when you shake it and a toothpick comes out clean.
Now, let it completely cool and level it out when it is done (meaning make the top even).
While it is cooling, you can make the frosting. This is where the baking rules are defied. I didn't follow a recipe last time, so I was just winging it. First, use three 8 ounce packages of cream cheese, a can of blueberry pie filling, some sugar, and some milk and mix it together. I know it bothers some people to not have exact measurements, but use your judgement here and make it to your liking. Mine turned out a little chunky (like really small curd cottage cheese) and I left it that way to add a different texture to the cake.
After the frosting is done, add half of it on top of the previously level first lemon cake.
At this point, add the second previously leveled lemon cake on top of the layer of frosting. It should be wiggly. After all, it is tall!
Oh! Make sure you put it on upside down! Then the crumbs from leveling don't get in the frosting. Now, add the other half of the frosting on top and on the sides filling in the gaps (mostly the corners) that are empty between cakes. Don't worry about frosting the sides of the cake, it looks good like this and it is still delicious!
For the final touch, add a special message for whoever you made it fo! Even if it says "I love you", and you're the one eating it! Enjoy!
Sorry for the sloppy writing!