Today is my mom’s birthday and so I celebrated by making a cake for her. It was going to be the best cake in the world :) I found the recipe online at All Recipes and it was called Maraschino Nut Cake. It was basically a homemade white cake recipe with maraschino cherries and pecans chopped up in it. Yum yum, right? Wrong :(

I made the cake and it took almost an hour to prepare the ingredients and then get the darn thing together. I didn’t have anything that said “cake flour” but I had a huge bag of all purpose flour so I totally figured it must be the same thing. I mean, flour is flour, right??? :blank: It said to pour the cake batter into the pans but my batter wasn’t exactly “pouring” LOL It looked like cookie batter, to be honest. And I bet if I had used cookie ingredients like brown sugar, they would have been excellent cookies! Needless to say, the “cake” did not turn out right at all and I had to toss it in the garbage.

I found a white cake mix in my pantry so I concocted cupcakes (as pictured above) with similar ingredients. Complete with homemade icing! I have no idea how these are going to taste or if they will even be edible but they sure are cute, aren’t they?? :D