Karen's Magic Cake

Finally I am posting this for all of you at the FRG Meeting that asked for the recipe. It's truly not excact due to the fact that I was purely making a concoction for random ingredients I found in my cupboard. Even better, I'm not sure where much of the ingredients came from indicating I never purchased the items!! I decided to make a cake, didn't have all the ingredients, but found a cake mix, so I made it my own... A couple people asked if I made that "Magic Cake," hence the name of my concoction.

Ingredients:
1 White Cake Mix
1 Can Whole Cranberry Sauce
3 Whole Eggs
1/3cup Oil
about 1/2 cup Cold Water
3oz Bitter Sweet Chocolate

Heat oven to 350F. Grate the chocolate (I put the chocolate in the freezer while I prepared the rest of the mix to ensure it would not clump.) Mix cranberry sauce, eggs, oil and 1/4 cup water. Add cake mix and stir until well combined, add water until a normal cake batter consistency is reached. Stir in chocolate until just combined and pour into greased cake pan. I used a 10 inch spring form pan because I really wanted to use my vintage cake tin and didn't want layers.

I am not going to post the frosting because I didn't like it and think it actually took away from all the flavor of the super moist cake. Next time I might just dust it with powdered sugar or chocolate powder. Let me know if you make the cake and how it turns out!!

Farron turned two, I still can't beleive it! However, if you ask her what her name is she says baby and that's just fine with me. I made the Birthday banner out of ribbon and magazine pages I did have her age as a fourth banner, but she turned two not three... 'nuff said.  The kids decorated Easter Eggs (Lucky made a beautiful egg and dye soup) and they all got to bring home a little Easter Basket I made from fabric scraps and a couple pairs of jeans I don't wear anymore.  In this picture are two of our master egg decorators Ethan and Sue in the background.

Then, yummy Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes with Chocolate and Strawberry Whipped Cream Frosting!

Who knows how many cupcakes Farron ate, but we do know she generously shared them all with Satchel.  Tonight, the day after her Birthday, she had two plus the frosting off of a third, then went back to eating a bag of fresh veggies.  

Because I am desperately in need of a good camera, I didn't get any good pictures of the gift opening, but did get one of the card made by Farron and Lucky's new friends Sue and Joo Young Park.

It's Easter! Hurray for Chocolate, Eggs and people dressed in Pink Bunny costumes!! Yesterday was Farron's #2 Birthday and Party so we didn't do a whole lot for Easter. I made fabric Easter Baskets as favors for the Party. Luckily, the Easter Bunny found a couple left from the party and filled them up with Sugary snacks!!  After we cleaned up the house we packed the girls up in their new Spring skirts and shirts from Grandma Jean and drove to Post for an Easter Egg Hunt.  It wasn't much of a hunt, just plastic eggs strewn onto the field, but the girls had fun and got to turn in the plastic eggs for yet more candy.