Single Serving Cake

Hungry for only a small serving of cake? Looking for a romantic dessert for two? Low on ingredients? Birthday cake just for you? THIS is the cake recipe you were looking for!

In my house, cake goes bad before we can eat it, besides, who wants all the calories of a whole entire cake? But sometimes you just want a little something after dinner for your sweet tooth. If you've tried that yucky cake recipe in a mug--this is not it. This single serving cake recipe is actually GOOD!

Tin Can Cakes, The Ultimate In Tin Can Baking

Cake For Two The Easy Way

You'll need two 14-15 oz tin cans to serve as your baking pans. Wash them and remove the paper label. You can either do it the hard way (I haven't done this since the 70s) and rub the inside with butter then tap in flour or simply spray with Baker's Joy. Poof! That's it! Welcome to the 20th century, kids. You won't believe how easy this two serving cake recipe is to make!

Cake For Two So Many Ways

Decorate Like Crazy!

Cake Recipe

A Basic Yellow Cake Can Become Anything

I know chocolate is a big favorite, but because these cakes are so tiny, a little flavor goes a long way. A yellow cake can be decorated with shaved chocolate curls, frosted with mocha frosting, sprinkled with mini chocolate chips, or dusted with cocoa powder. This cake is a fine blank canvas to run wild with all your secret cake decorating ideas.

If you MUST have chocolate, add 2 tbls unsweetened cocoa powder to mix. Voila--chocolate cake!

Tin cans should be washed, label removed, and sprayed with Baker's Joy

• Serves: 2

Ingredients

• 2 tin cans
• 1/2 cup flour
• 3 tbl buttermilk
• 1/8 tsp baking soda
• egg yolk
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 tbl butter
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Mix everything together BUT not by hand. If you do not use a mixer, either a stand mixer or a stick mixer, the cake will be a nice sweetened biscuit. It can be cut in half, filled, and frosted, but the texture will not be cake, it will be a biscuit. You must get air into the batter.
2. Half the batter into each tin can and to avoid tipping, place the cans on a cookie sheet to bake. 30 minutes.
3. When they're done, the trick to turning a cake out of the pan is to place the pans on a cooling rack for 5 minutes. Then, turn upside down and the cake will drop out without a problem. If you wait too long, the oils will harden and the cakes will not pop out cleanly. Wait 5 minutes, then flip them out.
4. In case you were wondering- 432 Calories per cake.

Without a Mixer 

With a Mixer! 
Light and Fluffy

                                   

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Dessert For Two

Make It Pretty! 

Frosting? Remember, these little cakes are sweet and small so a lot of frosting will cause you to fall into a diabetic coma!  Go light and airy and be creative!

• Whipped cream frosting--1/2 cup cream with a touch of sugar, whipped to stiff peaks will frost both cakes.
• Decorate with a smooth topping of sweetened cream cheese and mandarin orange slices arranged in a wheel over top
• Cut them in half and fill with jam mixed with cream cheese.
• Fill and drizzle with blueberry sauce-1 tsp grated lemon peel, juice of 2 lemons, 1 1/3 cup blueberries (frozen or fresh), 1/2 cup sugar. Heat and cook into a thick chunky sauce.
• Mix Key Lime juice and powdered sugar to make a glaze to pour over top.
• Just sprinkle the cakes with powdered sugar.
• Serve with a dollop of ice cream!
• Serve with a spoonful of candied kumquats!
• Nutella as cake filling!
• Apple Butter filling!

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Yellow Cake Recipe For Two Fridge Magnet by cinnamonbite

Single Serving Cake! 

Filling is apricot jam with cream cheese and a dash of almond extract 

Lime juice with powdered sugar glaze over top. Pineapple, cherry, and orange marmalade mixed with cream cheese as the filling inside.

Cake Recipe, Cuban Style

A Single Serving Of The Tropics!

Guava jelly as filling, cream cheese frosting, toasted coconut sprinkled on top!
"Delicioso!"

Cream Cheese Frosting For Single Serving Size Cakes

You will have leftovers. Try it the next night on a new cake!

  

Ingredients

• 4 oz cream cheese
• 2 tbls butter
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• dash of vanilla

Instructions

Whip it up in your mixer. Use while room temperature. Top with toasted coconut!

Toasted Coconut Topping

Toasting coconut is too simple! Put the amount of shredded bagged coconut you want in a frying pan. Heat it until golden! That's it!

Single Serving Cake and Buttermilk

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4 Days Old

Look what I got!

Super squirmy and already the middle one has attitude.  Hissing, LOL, itty bitty hissing! 

Got to think up names, but so tiny, I really can't sex them yet.  I think it's 2 boys and a girl but not sure yet.  They have a sweet torty momma to nurse them and she needs a name too

And The Prodigal Kitten is Adopted Again

Yeah, the volunteer who took her said the woman came in reeking of vodka (does vodka smell different from other alcohols?  I don't drink so I don't know nuthin'), had all the cat supplies too and dumped everything (the whole kit and caboodle?) and demanded her money back.  So I guess she had a drunken tantrum and the rest of the family came home to no cat and a crazy woman ranting and raving.  Or passed out in a drunken stupor.
Whatever.

In other news, ammonia did not make any difference to the towels.  These towels just all of a sudden MUST have a softener in the wash and dryer balls in the dryer or they'll take your flesh off your bones like a cat tongue. 
Still swearing by ammonia for mopping though.  Cleans like bleach but doesn't bleach.  If you get me. 

Already plotting The Great Black Sunday Litter Job this year.  We have a core group to set up camp with outside the door at Petsmart.  Steak N Shake is open 24 hours and is at the end of the parking lot.  My truck can hold 1200 lbs so it looks like we can take half a pallet of litter.  And that should be all we need for the year!  On top of that, a couple of weeks ago, we got a coupon for $25.00 off if you spend $100.00 AND the purple lid litter was on clearance ($7 a bucket) so we already have a wall o' litter in the garage.  Black Sunday will be the icing on the poop cake.  Or urinal cake. 
Whatever.

The Prodigal Kitten Returns!

Woman adopted one of the Siameses changed her mind after a week.  "We're not bonding," followed by, "there's something wrong with her eyes."  Like...they aren't blue enough?  She's not a purebred Siamese, of course, so her eyes are ice blue.  They wanted us, specifically, to foster her again so I guess there's no hard feelings?

I can't stop singing the praises of ammonia!  A guest spilled suntan oil on the bathroom tile floor.  Couldn't get it out with my normal bleach and soap mopping routine.  Scrubbed it with ammonia and the smell and stain is gone!  It cuts oils/grease.  Also, there's dire online info about cats smelling it and peeing on it to mark territory.  Nope.  The cats couldn't have cared less.  I've heard from too many people that it's great for cleaning the smell of cat pee on things like their mattress!  Yeah, can you imagine?  I have mattress covers but I'd be furious if a cat, basically, ruined a mattress.  Good to know that ammonia will kill the smell of cat piss.  I hear you can also use it in your wash, especially for woolens, makes them soft.  I've got some horrible towels I'm about to throw away because they're so rough.  I've tried softeners and those dryer balls and bounce sheets.  Makes no difference.  I'm going to wash them in ammonia next time I do laundry and see what happens.

Tonight's Super Moon

No shooting stars but I did see 1 satellite.

And They're Gone

All kittens are adopted!

Loverboy still had some unhealed lesions, they weren't pink, they didn't fluoresce but they had no fur.  They said put him out there anyway.  He didn't last an hour.  People think they're getting a $1000.00 cat for $55, LOL he's not purebred, guys.  Oh well, take him home and pamper the silly fella.

Our little baby calico had someone waiting for her so, POOF!  All done fostering.  Haven't decided to pursue other rescue groups or not.  We need some time off, see if we have kitten fever after a few weeks.

Cruise Ship

Went on a cruise!
Came back with norovirus, damn 3rd world savages they have working on the boats these days.  The ship was fairly run down, especially for Royal Caribbean.  I mean, look, this is the information age and there's precious little online about your boat, your shore excursions, the location.  That's just laziness.  When we got there to board, and just like 15 years ago, you have to wait for hours for your cabin to be ready.
Why?
It's not like they're in there cleaning.
Don't believe me?  When we do check in, there's a broken mirrored cabinet door hanging by one hinge, there's no shampoo in the dispenser, there's no kleenex, and the bathroom REEKS of eye-watering mildew the whole cruise.  It was bad.
And we were pretty bored out of our skulls the whole week.  Our last cruise?  Comedy shows, ice skating, inline skating, golf...this cruise?  Well, they had a swimming pool.  It was packed with people every second it was open.
And that's another thing, I HATE that when you get into port, the whole ship closes down.  The pools and hot tubs are drained, no rock climbing, no anything.  After all these years, they're still doing this?  I paid for it, you know?
And the Bahamas suck now.  The ship promotes all these diamond stores and that's pretty much all there is up the one road--jewelry stores.  Now, diamonds don't come from anywhere near the Caribbean.  Why would they sell them here?  I went to the straw market but it's 1 zillion booths with the exact same tacky trinkets that no sane person would have any use for and I couldn't spend a cent there.  Oh, but they do sell bottled Jamaican spices in all the stores.  Um...THIS ISN'T JAMAICA! 

So I guess the Bahamas have utterly nothing of any value whatsoever of their own.  

I went for the tilt-shift, LOL

 

Here's a Norwegian Sky

Yeah, all the ships go to their own private island, right next to another ships and their own private islands.

At least I didn't get sick on the ship.  By the way, the power of soap and water, NO ONE got sick here because I wash my hands.  I had a house full of people all week and it was just me who was sick.  And yes, I even cooked and made snacks for people and no one got sick.  WASH YOUR HANDS!  It's that simple.