Fancy Birthday Cake -- Recipe 5

For my 5th recipe, I made a birthday cake for my mother.

I made a chocolate cake using generic cake mix, and I baked it in a 13 by 9 inch pan.

I used vanilla buttercream to frost the cake.

Here are my cake ingredients:

The first layer of my cake was the icing:

The next thing I did was build a small house out of graham crackers.

(That's Han Solo in carbonate made of chocolate, just as an fyi.)

Then, I made a path out of Neccos, which are thin wafer candies:

At this point, there was frosting and candy everywhere, so I didn't get anymore pictures until I finished. 

The next thing I did, however was make a pond. I dyed some of the frosting blue, and then made a small circle off to the side of the cake. I surrounded the "pond" with brown M&Ms and then put blue candy sprinkles onto that area.

Then, I crushed green M&Ms. I put them (as well as green sugar sprinkles) onto the green part of the cake, as I missed the pond a little and got blue sprinkles everywhere.

After that, I made a clothes line using a piece of a pull-n-peel Twizzler and two toothpicks.

Then, I made a well, starting with a base of Neccos, and then adding a quartered double stuff Oreo without the cream for extra support. I then put graham crackers on the top to look like wood. I added two toothpicks on opposite sides of the well and put a piece of a pull-n-peel Twizzler for the string that supports the "bucket" that is commonly found in wells. I filled the well with blue M&Ms and blue sprinkles to represent water.

Lastly, I added a few more decorations until I was satisfied with the way it looked. I out two "4" candles on toothpicks and put them into the cake.

This is the link to a short video of the cake. (It may be sideways. I apologize.)

https://youtu.be/0NWQ2ghbaqA

Recipe 4 -- Brownie Pudding Cake

Four my fourth recipe, I decided to make Brownie Pudding Cake.

This is the recipe that I used:


1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar, divided
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, divided
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup milk
3 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla, divided
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate morsels
1 3/4 cups boiling water
1 tablespoon powdered sugar

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). 
2. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, 3/4 cup of the granulated sugar, 1/4 cup of the cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt.
3. Add milk, melted butter, and 1/2 teaspoon of the vanilla; stir until smooth. Stir in chocolate morsels.
4. Spread batter evenly in an oval baker.
5. In a small mixing bowl, whisk together remaining 3/4 cup granulated sugar and 1/4 cup cocoa; gradually stir in boiling water and remaining 1 teaspoon vanilla.
6. Carefully pour mixture evenly over batter in oval baker.
7. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes.
8. Sprinkle powdered sugar using spoon or sieve. Spoon into dishes for serving.

WARNING: Putting the cake in an oven is kinda terrifying because it is incredibly liquid-y.

       Also, ours made a weird like screaming noise and was moving up and down kinda like the guy in alien...

Ingredients: 

The cake right after taking it out of the oven: