Ice cream cake...not as you think

I baked a cake! After months of doing nothing I got busy! Well, not exactly. I did bake chocolate chip macadamia nut cookies, sugar cookies, and brownies for my BFF's baby shower in April. Things were so busy then that I just didn't have the time to update!

This recipe is really simple:

Your ingredients are:

1 box cake mix(any flavor!)
1 pint ice cream(any flavor!)
1 cup water
3 eggs

That's it!

No pictures this time sorry.

Grease and flour a bundt pan

Preheat your oven to 350

Beat all ingredients for FOUR minutes(I know it sounds crazy but it does clump)

Pour into pan and bake for 45 minutes

Take out and wah-lah!



It is the most moist cake you will EVER have. I used peach ice cream and yellow cake. While I didn't think it came out awesome other people said it was pretty good. I think I could have used a better ice cream. I tasted it afterwards and it was a pretty weak taste. :( I topped mine with vanilla icing and frozen peaches. Oh, and I only baked it for 40 minutes.




I got the recipe from here: http://www.omnomicon.com/ice-cream-cake

Sugar Cookies!

Today I promised my husband that if he caught us up on dishes then I would bake him something today. I cut my hand working this week and so the dishes kind of took a back burner and piled up a little bit(enough to try to entice him to do it, especially since my sore is still a bit open). So here we go!

Ingredients:
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).



In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder.


Set aside.



In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth.





Beat in egg and vanilla.





Gradually blend in the dry ingredients.





Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls, and place onto ungreased cookie sheets.



Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden.



Let stand on cookie sheet two minutes before removing to cool on wire racks.


So, you can see my cookies are a bit flat. I did a little bit of research and your type of butter can affect this. I only had Smart Balance 50/50 with olive oil and I really thing that's why they fell. They are still amazing~

Nom Nom Nom!

My first two layer cake!



It was cake mix so no recipe stuff. I'm pretty happy because I failed miserably the first time I tried to make a 2 layer cake. This time I let it cool for an hour and a half before attempting anything. After that, I shaved off the rounded top of the layer designated to be on the bottom. I also turned that one upside down so I would have no issues putting the frosting on.

Okay, time to go eat it and Happy Valentines day~

cake mix biscotti take 2

I had a couple of cake mix boxes laying around so I decided to make some more cake mix biscotti. No recipe this time since all you have to do is go here. This time I used Golden Butter cake mix and chocolate chips. I then melted chocolate chips and put them on top.


before cutting. They were pretty hard to cut and I'm assuming it was from all the chocolate sticking to it.


I melted chocolate chips and put them on the top.