One of my better cakes... With a surprise inside!

Here is of my better and more exciting cakes!!! It looks pretty badass yet unassuming from the outside... 

But then you cut it open...

...And m&ms fall out!!! So sugary but so good. As you can see in the bottom picture, all you have to do is cut out the middle part of the middle layer and then fill it with fun stuff. Still shocked it came out so cool! I'm typically hopeless with cake decorating...

Bicycle cake!

So I just typed out a really long and witty anecdote/ cake instructions. Then I stupidly left the page without saving and lost it all. I'm too tired to care to re type it now... Maybe I'll get back to it later. 

Moral of the story, (another) good friend was moving away so I made a cake. He loves bikes so I made it look like a bike tire. Box cake, frosting, food coloring and frosting bags. It's simple. I mean mine wasn't particularly beautiful but that's just because I'm terrible with frosting. But it really is simple. Good night :)

DIY Ice Cream Cake

As I mentioned in my last post, in one long night I made 21 different cakes. One of these was an ice cream cake. My mom used to make these for parties when I was a kid so for this party, I called her and asked how to make them. Turns out it much simpler than I expected. Why spend $30 on an ice cream cake when you can make one for about $5?

What you need:

-Ice Cream (I used vanilla)

-Hostess Ho-Ho Cakes 

(Do they still exist? I'm sure you could find something similar.)

I used a bundt pan because it looks pretty and it has slots making it easy to know where to cut slices. I took the ice cream out to soften for a little while. You do not want it to be liquid but you need to be able to squish it. While the ice cream was softening I unwrapped a bunch of Ho-Hos and squished them into the pan and packed it down as best as I could. How much you use depends on what pan you are using and how much cake you want in your ice cream cake. Once I had the Ho-Hos squished into the pan, I then squished the ice cream into the pan and then made sure it was flat. I put it back in the freezer to solidify a bit and then popped it out of the pan and put it on the plate when I was ready for it. Yum!

Coolest Cake Ever

When one my bestest best friends was turning 21 (and nobody else was) we decided to throw her a party. Since we could not do anything with drinking, we did a lot of eating. I stayed up all night in our dorm's lounge and made 21 different cakes.  There were nowhere near enough people at the party to eat all of that cake. I started sending home cakes as party gifts by the end of the party. Good times...

This was by far my favorite cake that I made that long sleepless night. It is so simple to make but was sooooo good. 

What you need:

-Chocolate Cake Mix

-Vanilla or Yellow Cake Mix

-Strawberry Cake Mix

-Eggs, oil or whatever the boxes say you need

-Vanilla Frosting

-Three round cake pans

Its pretty straightforward. I did not use all of the mix from the boxes on this cake. The rest of the mix went to some of the other 20 cakes. All did was make one round of each flavor and then layered them with vanilla frosting. Ta-da!! Neapolitan Cake!

For those of you who are curious and want to know what some of the other cakes are, lets see how many I can remember. 

Ice Cream Cake shown above... hmmmm that might need its own post...

1. Neopolitan
2. Chocolate with Vanilla Frosting
3. Chocolate with Chocolate Frosting
4. Vanilla with Vanilla Frosting
5. Vanilla with Chocolate Frosting
6. Strawberry with Strawberry Frosting?
7. Strawberry with Vanilla Frosting
8. Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
9. Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting
10. Red Velvet with Vanilla Frosting
11. Devils Food Cake
12. Angel Food Cake
13. Ice Cream Cake
14. Barbie Cake
15. Some Cupcakes of Various Flavors and Frostings...
16. That is all I can remember at this point.... If I find my list from back then I will edit the post later.