Welcome back everyone. Today I am going
to show you how to make better than
anything cake. We're gonna take a box of
chocolate cake mix and we're going to
take it over the top very easily though.
This cake is dedicated to my husband
Thomas who has put up with me for the
last few weeks and my nerves, my
anxiety, and my stress over
having to have cataract surgery in both
eyes. But I did it on Monday and I'm not
supposed to wear any makeup this week or
do anything heavy or anything that I can
let my eyes heal. But I am going to make
him a cake cuz he deserves it. Putting
up with me. Yeah, he's not here right
now. So, this is kind of a surprise. All
right. That's right. We're going to take
a boxed cake mix. This is a devil's
food. You can use whatever chocolate
cake that you want. And we're gonna make
this
first. We'll make the cake first and
then we're going to do all kinds of
yummy stuff to it to make it so
decadent, rich, and delicious. People
are going to think you got it from a
bakery.
And speaking of bakery,
maybe I might need to get my eyes
checked again.
Speaking of bakery,
we're going to make it bakery style.
Now, if y'all have ever heard of a
bakery style cake is you just take the
ingredients on the back of the box and
change them up. And that's what we're
going to do. Okay, you guys, you ready?
We're going to start in a large mixing
bowl
and add our cake mix.
Y'all like these little cups right here?
I've had these for a while. I use them
individually, but then they looked so
cute for this recipe here. These came
from my brother Donald and his wife
Donna a couple of years ago. So, we're
going to use that. So, in the largest
one over here, we got three eggs. I
brought them to room temperature. That
way, they don't seize up in the mix
here. So, we're going to crack them in,
which means I'm going to take them out,
crack them into the bowl here. That way,
we don't get shells.
That's one.
Think I'm going to put them all in,
two,
and three.
And a shell.
One, two, and three.
The cake mix calls for one cup of water.
You can do that or you can add the one
cup of milk
and it also calls for half a cup of oil
like Crisco oil, canola oil or anything
like that. I'm using half a cup of
melted butter.
Now I cool that down just a little bit
so it doesn't scramble our eggs.
And then now this isn't on the box, but
we're gonna add some flavor. I've got
one teaspoon of vanilla.
All right. You can take a whisk and kind
of blend that all together or a wooden
spoon. I'm just going to use my electric
hand mixer because it kind of whiffs in
some air
and makes it nice and moist, fluffy,
and that's what we want. All right,
we're going to blend this for 2 minutes.
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Now, as you're mixing this, just take
your spatula and pull down the sides.
That way, everything gets nice and
incorporated.
Woo! That looks nice and fluffy in
there. Nice and combined.
All right, we're done with the mixer.
All
right. Don't forget to spray a 9 by13
baking dish with some non-stick cooking
spray.
Make sure I get it good.
And then we're going to put the cake
batter into our baking dish. Now, this
is a 9 by13. Did I say that?
Oh, look how decadent that looks. Nice
and smooth,
y'all. Whip some air into it.
Make a nice fluffy cake.
Make it stand up tall, too.
All right, we're going to smooth it out
nice and even.
All right, we're going to bake the cake
at 350°
and we're going to follow the directions
on the back of the cake box for the 9
by13, which is going to be 28 to 33
minutes. Take a toothpick, insert it
into the center of the cake. If it comes
out clean, you're good to go. We're
going to cool it down for about 10
minutes, and then we're going to finish
the cake up.
Okay, I've pulled the cake out of the
oven. And I did a toothpick test and it
came out clean.
Now we're going to poke some holes. We
got to get some good stuff inside the
cake. Y'all look at that.
Perfectly all the way across. I'm going
to take the back end of a kitchen
utensil, kind of like a wooden spoon or
anything with a wooden handle, and we're
going to poke holes. Now, if you have a
large straw, you can use that. You want
them large enough so they can get the
ingredients inside of it. All right.
So, just poke through.
Make some room between the holes.
And we'll come down to the end here.
Just like that.
We're going to open up one can of
sweetened condensed milk. This is 14 oz.
And what we want to do is pour it all
into the holes.
Y'all, this stuff is good. M.
Mhm.
Delicious. All right. I'm going to start
right here.
There we go. Aim for the holes. That way
goes all the way down into the bottom.
We're going to go this way. And then
we'll go back the other way.
Just keep going till we empty out the
cam.
There we go. Just like that. Oh, told
y'all this is going to be a very
decadent cake. We're taking a chocolate
boxed cake mix. Taking it over the top.
Caramel sauce. Now, I like to get the
squeeze bottle,
and that's what I'm using right here.
All right, we're going to aim for the
holes.
Get some caramel in there.
This will be fun to have some fun with
that. Save some caramel for the topping
of our cake here. So, I'm just going to
go like this.
probably used half of the bottle.
Have in the same bottle chocolate sauce.
And we're going to do the same thing.
Aim for the holes.
Where do y'all want to take this cake?
some kind of event
church function.
Fall is right here.
Now I'm going to go across the top.
What we're going to do now is cool down
the cake completely before we top it and
finish it off. So, you can stick this in
the refrigerator to do that or just set
it on your countertop. I would put a
rack underneath of it so that the cool
air can go underneath of it and cool it
faster for you. All right, I'll be back.
We're going to finish this off and then
I have a special person
who's going to give this a try for you.
All right, we've got the cake nice and
chilled.
We're going to top it with some cool
whip.
Now, you can make your own homemade
whipped topping if you want to do that,
but I was trying to keep this cake nice
and simple for you guys.
So, I'm going to dollop it everywhere.
And we got some other things we're going
to put on top really quickly. This will
be a refrigerated cake because of the
cool whip on top. So, just keep that in
mind.
You don't want to leave it out on your
countertop.
I'm just going to kind of smooth it out.
Give it some peaks. Give it some depth
here. There we go. That look good, you
guys.
Thomas is here. Say hi to Thomas.
I don't hear nobody.
He made it back. We've got some Heath
English toffee bits.
That's going to make Thomas happy.
Heck yeah. I haven't had freaking toffee
in years.
All right, that's what they look like
right here.
We're going to sprinkle them on top.
This is better than anything, you guys.
Oh, look at that.
Keep going.
He's like, keep going.
I'm saving the rest. You know why? I saw
a recipe on the back here for the toffee
bits. Chocolate chip cookies.
Oo,
you know we got to make those.
Save them.
Yes. Save them. All right, we're still
going strong. We saved some caramel
sauce. Drizzle it on.
Caramel.
Do you say caramel or caramel? What do
you say?
Caramel.
Caramel. Look at that. Woo. Looks
delicious.
Smells delicious, too. All right, we've
got the chocolate sauce still.
All right, where are y'all taking this
cake to? Huh?
I'm taking it to my room with a spoon,
y'all. Let's go give him a spoon and
he's going to give this a try for you.
There we go, you guys. is I've got
Thomas's piece right here. Notice I
don't have a fork cuz he's coming over
with his. All right, give it a try.
There's so many layers and flavors going
on in this cake.
What do you think?
Go sit down.
He's not going anywhere yet.
Oh god.
All right, you guys. Here's my rock
through my cataract surgery even
beforehand and even had my mom on the
phone calming me down. And of course, I
had God on my side also. So without
those three,
she wasn't that bad.
But I survived it. Both cataract
surgeries at the same time. They did one
eye, then they went right into the other
eye and got them both done at the same
time. She came out like a trooper.
Of course, she was flying high.
They gave me some good stuff to get
through it. So,
they could tell she was ready to run out
of the room, so they loaded her down.
It's been, let's see, we we had it done
on Monday. So, it's been four days.
So, feeling pretty good. Can see y'all
really well.
Yep.
Hello, everyone. But now we got to go
back and vacation to some places that we
were at.
So I can really see where we went.
She can really see it.
All right, you guys. Did you get the
crunch of the coffee bits in there?
Everything. It's super moist from the
whatever you put.
Oh, everything I put into the holes of
the cake. Yeah. The condensed milk,
caramel, and the chocolate that went
into all of those holes. Smooth it out
with some Cool Whip. Then top it again.
And then give it some crunch. All right,
you guys. Thumbs up. Hope to see you on
the next video. I've got a soup recipe
coming out for you guys. And then Thomas
and I are making candy.
Yep.
It's coming up soon, too. All right, you
guys. Bye
bye.