Cake Auction

Here's an update on my grandma's cake auction. I realized I showed off the flower cakepops, but not the finished product. So here it is...

And here are the cakes my aunt and cousin made for the auction...

The auction was pretty fun. They brought in a real auctioneer and there were about 40 cakes being auctioned off to raise money for a computer for the residents of the nursing home (where my grandma volunteers, she's far too young to live there yet!) I guess the auctioneer was pretty convincing and persistent in his efforts to get us to bid on cakes, because here are all of the cakes that we ended up with by the end of the auction...

Yep, there are 5 cakes. Yep, one of them is a Barbie cake. Yep, one of them is the one I made - my grandpa won that one (I don't think he knew it was the one I made!) Yep, we might have gone a little overboard, but at least it was for a good cause!

The One with the Microwave Mess

My mom got a beautiful new baking dish that can be used to make all sorts of things in the microwave - chicken, ribs, soup, cake...

A cake in the microwave! What a fabulous idea, and in only 10 minutes!

The other day we tried to make one. It sounded so easy...

All you do is gather up the ingredients to make a boxed cake mix...

 Mix it all up, and pour it into the baking dish...

Scoop out a can of frosting on top of the mixture...

Put the lid on...

 Pop it in the microwave for 10 minutes...

Then enjoy your warm, gooey, delicious cake!

Or at least that's what should have happened.
In real life, this is what happened...

We eagerly waited for the timer to go off...

And when it did, this is what we found...

I guess we weren't supposed to put the lid on.

There was such a mess that we could lick it right out of the microwave...

Here's how the finished product turned out...

 

Not too pretty, but it tasted pretty good!
And next time, we'll leave the lid off!