I debated making my son's birthday cake this year. I usually always make my cakes but I thought, "wouldn't it just be easier to buy one?" But I couldn't do it. So I looked online for a yellow cake recipe and found one that called for a cup of butter and four eggs all at room temperature. I made sure I had my eggs and butter at room temperature and got started. With so much butter and eggs the cake had to be good!
As my oven timer was beeping I anxiously pulled open the door and this is what I saw . . .
Well this isn't exactly what I saw. It was a yellow cake and all I saw, at the time, was wasted butter and eggs! I would have to buy a store bought cake after all. Now, I'm one of those people who hate to waste things and I ruminated for a long time about letting this two layer cake go to waste. I decided to poke holes in the cake and pour warm Jello on it so that way at least my kids could have a snack. But it wasn't good enough for my obsessed mind. Suddenly, I had an epiphany! When life gives you a fallen cake, fill it with pudding!
I made a big batch of vanilla pudding and filled the perfect little bowls, my fallen cakes had made, with it. Voilà! I had my cakes and make them even better!
I frosted the cake with homemade cream cheese frosting and decorated it with matching candies. My fallen cake turned out to be a hit!
