A whimsical strawberry flavored marbled cake with easy seven minute frosting and the new strawberry flavored Whoppers for decorations.
- 1 10-ounce box Strawberry Milkshake Whoppers (found at Walmart)
- 1 box Duncan Hines French Vanilla Cake Mix
- 1 can evaporated milk
- 1/3 cup oil
- 3 eggs
- 2 teaspoons Strawberry extract (I used Tone's which is imitation but smells and tastes real)
- Prepare cake pans and pre-heat oven
- Empty cake mix into large bowl
- Add the evaporated milk (my other milk was starting to turn and not warmed to room temp)
- Add the oil.
- Mix slightly.
- Slip in the eggs and beat in before adding the next one.
- Scrape bowl as needed.
- Turn up speed and mix for 2 or 3 minutes
- Divide batter between the mixer bowl and another one; use the other one for the white batter (it will be off white)
- Add the two teaspoons Strawberry extract to batter in mixer bowl; add a couple drops pink food coloring; mix in well.
- Put the light batter and pink batter side by side in prepared pans; try to get it exactly even.
- Swirl with teaspoon the pink into the white and back about 3 times (I swirled a little too much).
- Bake until tests done.
- Remove from oven and cool on rack for 5 minutes.
- Turn out of pan, remove parchment paper and return to rack to cool completely.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and store in refrigerator over night works well.
- Prepare the whoppers by cutting partially in half with a pill cutter (It's tricky until you get a feel for it, don't try to cut through all the way; start the cut and gently pry into two halves).
- Put the ruined ones in a separate bowl; these will be crushed and used for the filing.
- Set aside the Whopper pieces; put the ruined pieces in a ziplock bag and crush with rolling pin, side of meat hammer or hammer; Set aside.
- Make the Easiest Seven Minute Frosting or frosting of your choice.
- Even with a cake board and revolving stand, I'm not too good with layer cakes so get the layers stacked and frosted as best you can; sprinkle the crushed pieces over the frosting in the fill layer.
- Keep working the frosting as best you can
- Now the one I saw had crushed pieces pressed into the sides but I wanted to be a little different so I tediously pressed the cut Whopper halves into the sides of the cake, then was just going to put a few in the center top of cake.
- I just kept going and pretty soon had the entire cake covered.
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agless (109 discussions) on Feb 27, 2012 at 03:31 PM
I used quite a bit of frosting, sprinkled the "crunch", and pressed the top layer down firmly but not so hard that it would damage it. There was plenty of frosting, and I think it might look better if more frosting were added on top of the crunch in the filling so it wouldn't have the gaps in the center there.
