National Bundt Day
Happy National Bundt Day! Every year, The Food Librarian makes 30 bundt cakes leading up to the holiday. Every year, I *swear* I'm going to participate. After all, there are so many recipes to choose from, just on her site! This year, our work Thanksgiving party happened to fall on the same day. It was fate, right?
Well, I started out wanting to make her Sour Cream Chocolate Bundt. How can you say no to that? I got everything together, and it looked fine, until I opened my bakers chocolate. I only had two oz, and it calls for three! Disaster!
So then I figured that I would make a quick bundt off of Allrecipes. I found one that matched the ingredients I had, and set some butter out to warm up. Now, people were coming over, and by the time the butter was softened, people were starting to show up. No problem! It was a quick recipe! I read the first instruction. "Cream butter with 1/2 cup of shortening." ... The shortening was NOT in the ingredients list! Who leaves something like that out of the ingredients list?? That'll teach me to try a recipe without researching it. Or at least reading it all the way through!
At that point, people were over, we were about to watch a movie, and I was frustrated. Eric offered to go out to buy me a box mix, and I took him up on it. I feel like a failure. Even the "ganache" is just microwaved can frosting. Oh well, there will be plenty of other desserts there.
So, here's my box-punt-bundt:
Well, I started out wanting to make her Sour Cream Chocolate Bundt. How can you say no to that? I got everything together, and it looked fine, until I opened my bakers chocolate. I only had two oz, and it calls for three! Disaster!
So then I figured that I would make a quick bundt off of Allrecipes. I found one that matched the ingredients I had, and set some butter out to warm up. Now, people were coming over, and by the time the butter was softened, people were starting to show up. No problem! It was a quick recipe! I read the first instruction. "Cream butter with 1/2 cup of shortening." ... The shortening was NOT in the ingredients list! Who leaves something like that out of the ingredients list?? That'll teach me to try a recipe without researching it. Or at least reading it all the way through!
At that point, people were over, we were about to watch a movie, and I was frustrated. Eric offered to go out to buy me a box mix, and I took him up on it. I feel like a failure. Even the "ganache" is just microwaved can frosting. Oh well, there will be plenty of other desserts there.
So, here's my box-punt-bundt: