Nothing Bundt Cake

Not gonna lie, this isn't how I expected my little project to start. Beside the face that Nothing Bundt Cake isn't a restaurant, it isn't even really cooking, it's baking. And before 4:30 tonight I had never baked anything in my life. I guess that is not completely true. When I was young, with my sister, we used to make blueberry muffins from a box. About half way through the baking you would pour the sugary crumbs on top of the muffins to make them hide the taste of the actual muffins. I would always put a little extra on the muffin I intended to eat, make sure to be the one that put them on a cooling rack and then take the best one. I guess that was one of the few advantages I had in being an older brother. Back to 4:30 this afternoon. The Steeler vs. Bronco game was tied just getting ready to start overtime, and I knew Tebow was about to make magic so I was a little flustered. But I also knew that my uncle Doug was coming over for cake, and my wife was in the kitchen waiting for me, so... I turned the volume up as loud as I could and started baking. Some shortening, flour, sugar, some other small ingredients and an ish load of red food coloring and I had what looked like cake batter. For the record, desserts are disgusting. I think if most people knew what they were eating they would not order dessert at a restaurant, I was completely grossed out by the time the cake was in the oven. As I was mixing the cocoa powder and food coloring into the batter I could hear from the other room that the Broncos just scored an eighty yard touchdown to win the game, no biggie... I will watch it later, I Tebowed it. (Get it. It is a play on the popular recording device, tevo). Next the frosting. If I wasn't completely disgusted by the cake batter, I would be by the time I finished the frosting. Cream cheese, butter and sugar. Really? I may never eat dessert again. Oh well, it tastes good.

After eating a nice rotisserie chicken and enjoying a glass of Cabernet Franc we cut into the cake. And... it was actually good. Really light, way lighter than the cake we got from Nothing Bundt Cake. The cream cheese frosting wasn't as thick either. Mixing both the batter and the frosting I left the mixer on for an extra minute just to get a lot of air into the mixtures and it may have whipped them a little too much. I am probably being a little over critical, everyone who had it said they really liked it, some said they liked it more than Nothing Bundt Cake's. I don't think it was that good, but it was definitely impressive for my first shot at it. I still don't like baking much, but it was a fun way to spend a Sunday evening with my wife.

This week was good, here's to an even better next week. NEXT ROUNDS ON ME.