I was making a Hawaiian Delight cake (one of my Mom -in-law’s recipes) and while using the Cook’s Illustrated fluffy yellow cake recipe (March 2008) instead of the box cake that the recipe calls for worked fine; whipped cream and drained pineapple don’t quiet have enough vanilla flavor and substance to substitute for vanilla pudding mix and dream whip with un-drained pineapple. I wonder what th vanilla pudding and dream whip originally substituted for? I wonder how the cake plate gets so dusty between DH’s birthday and Memorial Day…
K was quiet. Panicking, I quit wondering, I looked down and exclaimed, “K, you can’t have the cake before I frost it!”
“Fowry Momma.” she replied.
Oh well. When you make do with two 8 inch round pans and an 8 inch square pan to begin with – pretty cakes are a bit of a stretch anyhow. I used one of the triangles I’d cut off the square to make an octagon and mended the round with the toddler handful missing.