Got Cake and Ate it, Too

My mom saw my post about Pinerest Fail and sent me a fun recipie idea that also seemed too good to be true: a microwavable "cup" cake. Its official name is the Duncan Hines 1-2-3 Microwave Cake. You can find the receipe here (or follow along below): http://www.duncanhines.com/recipes/cakes/patti40/3-2-1-microwave-cake/.

We assembled the ingredients. Per the receipe, one of the cake mixes has to be angel food. Shawn mixed them into a big plastic baggie, because you only need to use a couple of tablespoons at a time:


Three tablespoons of the cake mixture go into the cup:


Two tablespoons of water are added and mixed:


Goes in the microwave for one minute:


Viola! Cake! The instructions also suggested letting it rest for up to 15 minutes:


The finished product:


I have to say that we chose pretty bland cake mixes partly because we didn't want to waste any of the "good" stuff, like, say chocolate cake. So what this tasted like was those shortcakes a person might buy to make strawberry shortcake--quite sweet and a little dry and sticky. But good. I actually made myself a second one just for fun. I also kind of liked that, if you didn't mix it super well, you'd get these kind of crunchy sweet bits on the bottom of the cake.

Me, tasting it:


It was really kind of fun too. It took no time, and I could almost see bringing a bag of the stuff to a small gathering of friends and making individual cakes for people on the spot as a kind of party trick. I think the perfect companion would be a can of whipped cream (or fresh) and a pile of strawberries or blueberries or whatever your favorite fruit topping might be.

Because they are a little boring on their own. But, a nice, individual treat nonetheless.

It was also really awesome to have one of these silly receipe things work out. I have to say, I called my mom immediately to crow about our success.