Last weekend my son and I had baking time together. We thought chocolate cake and white icing would be yumish.
Cake Ingredients
- 1 box chocolate cake mix ( we used milk chocolate butter recipe)
- 1/2 cup vegetable/canola oil
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/4 cups (about 1 reg can) of cola carbonated beverage (we used Coca Cola)
Rum Buttercream Frosting
- 1 cup softened, no-salt butter (2 sticks)
- 3 1/2 cups powdered, confectioners sugar
- 1/4 cup dark rum *
- rum extract (if needed)
Preparing the cake
Heat oven to 350 F (325 F for dark or non-stick pans). Grease bottom and sides of your chosen pans with shortening. Dust lightly with flour or line the bottom of your pan(s) with measured and cut out parchment paper or waxed paper.
Mix together cake mix, oil, 3 large eggs, and all of the carbonated beverage. Mix at low speed for 1 minute, stop mixer, scrap sides of bowl, continue mixing at medium speed for 2 more minutes. Pour batter into pan (s).
Bake 25 - 35 minutes. Test with a toothpick. If toothpick has wet cake, bake additional 1 minute each time until new toothpick comes out clean. Cool on wire racks at least 30 minutes.
When cool, pull butter knife along inside edges of cake to loosen from pan, invert cake onto a cake plate, gently, by tapping bottom of pan. Remove paper.
Preparing the frosting
In your favorite frosting bowl, beat softened butter until creamy and light in color. Add 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time, beating after each addition. Mix for an extra 2 minutes. Frosting will be thick and stick to your beater.
Don't worry because now you will add the rum. Beat for 1 minute. If you feel the frosting is at the right consistency to frost, do not add the rum extract. If it is still thick, slowly add rum extract until desired consistency.
Frost cake, decorate as desired with sprinkles, cake sugars, nuts, etc... Be creative! It is your cake! And most of all, have fun and experience the Yumish in life.
* For my rum, I buy the bottom shelf rum at my local liquor store, Gabriels. It is cheap! I don't drink this rum, only use it for baking and cooking.
I adapted this recipe from BettyCrocker.com
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