I am looking for the easiest cake recipe for a home made cake?

a brown happy birthday cake with lit candles and  - a brown happy birthday cake with lit candles with white icning trim
United States
October 14, 2008 2:26pm CST
Can you suggest the easiset cake recipe for a home made cake? There is a birthday coming up besides mine and I want to make a cake for someone special. I would like to know the recipe that you use that is best for less experienced bakers.Please also explain what kind of icning and if you make it, how?
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@rusty2rusty (6751)
• Defiance, Ohio
17 Oct 08
You can always make those dump cakes. They sound bad but taste so yummy. You make the cake according to directions. Than dump a bunch of fruit in the center. The cake will bake around it. If you use chocolate cake. You dump cherrie sin teh middle. Thus turning it to a black forest cherry cake. You can use a simple white icing for the frosting. Or if you want to go along a auntum theme. You can do a pumpkin dump cake. Use yellow cake and dump can pumkin in the middle. Yummy...tatse just like pumkpin pie.
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• United States
17 Oct 08
I love the dunp cakes. I hadnt thought about that so thank you for reminding me. Thats why I told her , our members have the best ideas. Appreciate the reminder and response, Happy Mylotting!
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• Defiance, Ohio
17 Oct 08
Your very welcome. I love dump cakes. You can do anything with them, make them taste like you spent hours and hours making them. But put very little effort in them.
@imsilver (1665)
• Canada
17 Oct 08
If your looking for a cake that needs icing I can't help you. As much as I excel at cooking, I really suck at baking. I do have a standard cake I do when one is required. Easy as pie - almost no work involved. Dump a can of crushed pineapples into the bottom of the baking dish. Add some cherry or raspberry pie filling over that. Just dump a box of cake mix (don't worry about the instructions on the box - just put the cake mix over the other stuff.) Dallop a bit of butter in each quarter and throw into the over and 350 until it's done. Presto!
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• United States
17 Oct 08
Appreciate the information. It sounds delicious. Thats easy for everyone even if you arent experienced. I dont always have to have icning.That makes me hungry for cake now! lol