Hello friends. My name is Cheryl. And I'm having an affair.

 

An affair with this cake...

 

It's so moist and yummy and sweet and divine. It's from Nothing Bundt Cake and Claudia is to blame for this affair. She introduced me to this beautiful marble bundt cake on February 18th. Just look at it!

 

Isn't it beautiful? It's delicious, too.

 

You see, I'm on a mission to keep exercising and eating a lean diet so I can develop my obliques. So, I'm completely cheating on that mission and my trainer with this cake. Don't tell my obliques. Or my trainer. Hi Jennifer!

 

This love affair I'm having with marble bundt cake reminded me of my adventures with cake from last August and thought it was time for a new adventure. I'm not going to try and make bundt cakes because why mess with perfection? I'm going to try my hand at miniature cakes. The 18 layers didn't turn out so well. Surely, I can make little baby cakes.

 

I could have found a great cake recipe from scratch but I'm not a foodie or a baker so it's best if I just stay with my friend, Betty Crocker. It's gotta be good. It says Super Moist.

 

Let's say ditto with the icing. It says whipped. It's gotta be good. Ha, ha. Never mind.

 

 

Bake the cake according to the directions. I used a 13x9 pan but I suggest you use a round pan. My cake was a little fat. Okay, it was fat! I used a round cookie cutter to cut out the smaller round cakes.

 

At this point, I'm really liking the crazy angles. They're going to be perfect for making little mad hatter cakes! Just in time for the Alice in Wonderland movie. I bet you just can't wait. Don't scroll down! Don't you peak!

 

 

I played around with them to figure out how I was going to stack the cakes and started my crumb coating. Just put a light coating of icing on the cake.

 

And, it really started to crumble. And I do mean crumble. Into crumbs! These darn little cakes are falling apart right in front of me!

 

I begin to curse. Imagine really bad words flying around my house at this moment. Well, not that bad because my boys were there. Laughing at me.

So I'm looking at them. They're looking at me. I'm looking at a bunch of crumbs that are supposed to be cakes. 

 

Deep breaths. Happy thoughts. Deep breaths. Happy thoughts.

 

Come on, Cheryl. You can shine.

 

Shine, Cheryl, Shine.

 

What would Bakerella do? I look at the calendar on the wall. St. Patrick's Day is coming up on March 17th. Well, Bakerella would make cake balls with cake crumbs. Deep breaths. Happy thoughts. So, go ahead and mash that cake up. Get a fork in there and make it all crumbs.

 

 

Dump the whole icing bucket in there and stir it up so it's evenly spread through out the crumbs. I know it looks gross but it's just cake and icing. Stay with me.

 

It's all spread evenly now. Dig in with your hands and start rolling up the crumbs into balls. Place them on a cookie sheet. Then let them sit in the freezer for a little bit. See, it's okay.

 

 

If you don't have all the stuff in your pantry run to the store and get some vanilla candy coating...this is all Target had and Hobby Lobby was closed but I recommend the little disc kind that comes already colored the color you want it.

 

And get yellow sprinkles and yellow food coloring if you don't have it. Yes, Yellow. Not Green. Because you shine.

 

 

I had to leave mine in the freezer over night because I ran out of time. Imagine that. So you don't have to do it all in one day. Make the cake balls and then invite a friend or two over to decorate them. You're going to need a friend. Or two.

 

In a bowl melt some of the candy in the microwave. Stir in yellow food coloring unless you're smarter than me and bought the little yellow disc kind. You're smart. And don't over-heat this stuff because then it's just a mess. And! Don't add water to it after you over-heat it. Just cut your losses and start over. Not that I know anything about over-heating it, adding water to it or cutting my losses.

 

Place a ball on a fork and then spoon the melted yumminess over the top. Or dip it in and gently turn it. Just get it covered, okay! Sprinkle the messy thing with yellow candy sprinkles. Set them aside to let them set and harden. And slide it off gently so you don't have a hole in the candy like you see in mine. Deep breaths. Happy Thoughts. Repeat until they're all done. (Sorry there aren't any photos of that process but this is a messy job for a novice like me. I can't dip, sprinkle and take pictures. JB and Drew helped as much as they could.)

 

 

And, what do you have? No, it's not a big damn mess! It's a pot of wee gold to help you celebrate St. Patrick's Day! We had some and guess what? They're really good. But don't tell my obliques.

 

 

So see, there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! Join us in the Today's Forum and tell us when you took a mishap and turned it around to make it shine. And, it's Free For All Friday. If you have a question you would like our readers to toss around, throw it out there!

 

This is your wee friend, Snarky O'Pry, Shining Off Until Tomorrow... where I see a treadmill in my future.