Working Girl's Birthday Cake

At the beginning of October my manager/coach had her birthday, and I wanted to do something nice for her. What goes perfectly with birthdays? Oh, right, birthday cake! However, her birthday was in the middle of the week, and the last thing I wanted to do after spending time making dinner was to bake a cake from scratch. So then what were my options? A boxed cake!

Who writes about making a boxed cake on a food blog? Well I'm about to. But this particular post isn't necessarily about my ability to bake, but my ability to bake something while working at least 40+ hours a week.

My coach wanted a yellow cake with chocolate frosting. So I chose the betty crocker yellow cake mix with pudding in the mix. This helps the cake to stay moist and fluffy. I also used betty crocker chocolate frosting. Nothing special, but I figured it would be worth a blog post.

I did add a bit of vanilla extract to make it a little more exciting, but that is my only deviation from the recipe on the back of the box. I baked the cake the night before and set the two cake rounds on a cooling rack overnight. This way when I transported the cake I wouldn't worry about messing up the frosting.

Again, this cake is nothing special. But it did the job, and she loved it.

Don't forget the candles.