I Dare You To Eat It

Okay, this is exactly what happened.

I had leftover cranberry orange relish and wanted to try baking it into a cake. I also had lots and lots of leftover sour cream. I told Mike to buy four cups and he heard four BIG containers.      Let’s keep moving.

Found a recipe that called for these ingredients:

Well, to be accurate, the recipe called for a yellow cake mix but I thought that strawberry would be even more exciting. It was. Now this particular recipe also called for one package of instant vanilla pudding, a little applesauce, and some buttermilk but I thought that what I had on hand would certainly be close enough. It wasn’t.

And whoever heard of using 5 (maybe it was 4) eggs in one cake? I did it anyway.

With no pudding, applesauce, or buttermilk available I settled for extra cranberry and lots of sour cream. I love that cranberry sauce and lots of people have told me that sour cream is wonderful in baked goods.

Then I added the strawberry cake mix…YEEEEEES, instead of the yellow cake mix that was called for. Geeze!

After that,

I remembered the nuts! I love nuts. No, the recipe didn’t call for them. Still, nuts make everything better.

Then it was time to go into the oven. The batter seemed…well….a little…intense,

but I remained confident.

AND LOOK HOW NICE IT TURNED OUT!

NOT

Lizzie had the first bite and said that it tasted like Froot Loops and Playdough. Didn’t want to believe THAT so I took a bite for myself only to spit it out in the sink. “Wow!”

I think this shows progress, in a way. At least I didn’t try making it into something else.

Like a poultice.

Baby steps.