Happy Mardi Gras!
In honor of (almost) National Pączki Day, Megan and I embarked upon a wondrous adventure yesterday to bake the world's best king's cake. But first, we had to go to Kroger because my house is pretty much absent of all of the basic baking necessities except for instant cake/brownie mix (which totally does count as a baking necessity. But I guess we kinda needed stuff like butter too since butter does not ever exist in the Pan household. [So many potential puns right there.])
Anywho, we got to the store and walked at least a dozen loops around because we are ohsodecisive. Of course, no shopping trip would be complete without free samples. (FREE SAMPLES!) I was so excited to take another food porn picture that I accidentally dropped my chicken sushi upside down into the shopping cart.
'Twas a dark and sad moment.
Fortunately, it still turned out okay. LOOK AT THAT FOOD SHININESS IN ALL OF ITS DELICIOUS GLORY. ↓
We also kept getting distracted by the giant teddy bears in the Valentine's Day aisle,
and the super adorbs cards. I ended up buying a set of purrfect kitty sticker valentines. :'D As you can see below, I like to look as dignified and attractive as possible whenever I put pictures of myself onto the interwebz. ↓
We were in Kroger for over an hour and eventually spent $3 on rainbow cake mix and frosting. (That was after putting back the cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla extract, butter, and other stuff that we originally selected but later decided was unnecessary since rainbow cake mix is the way to go. Plus it's rainbow. RAINBOW.)
ONTO LE BAKING
LE PLAN:
- 1 rainbow king cake w/rainbow sprinkles and coconut pecan frosting
- 6 brownie cupcakes
- 1 pan (tehe) of brownies
The first two were for the Mardi Gras party in French class and the last one was for myself (#noshame). We would've make another cake but we only had one donut-shaped pan . . . Get it? We only had one pan. Because I'm a Pan and I was the only Pan home (technically) and . . . :'D . . . okay I'll stop. BACK TO THE BAKING.
We prepared the rainbow cake mix which had rainbow sprinkles inside of it. Then we prepared the brownie stuff. Normally I use chopsticks to whip/beat things but we chose to upgrade to using forks. In fact, we used two forks. We like to keep things classy. ↓
We had a bit of brownie mix leftover so we decided to take a leap and pour the rest into the king cake holder, after which we stuck the thing into the oven for 45 minutes. Once it finished baking, we took it out to bask in all of its warmth and beautifulness. Megan and I were super confused though because we were like, "Where did all the brownieness go?"
On a side note: My mother found the PERFECT box. Ohmygoodness. It was literally the PERFECT size. I kid you not. I had to take a picture for proof because it was just that mind-blowing and no one else would've believed me otherwise unless I had evidence.
Anywho, once the cake cooled, we had to flip it over. It was then that we figured out where all the brownie mix had gone. ↓
So much sadness. :( And the cupcakes also kinda deflated in the middle. ↓
BUT ALL WAS NOT LOST. We injected the cake with some TLC and covered it in coconut pecan frosting and rainbow star sprinkles. A few chunks were lost here and there but that's okay because Megan and I put them to good use. (; We completely forgot to put in the plastic baby prize but that's okay because every bite of the cake is a prize.
;D
Thus we dubbed it a donut crownie because cake + brownie = crownie and it's a king cake and KINGS WEAR CROWNS.
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Okay I'll stop.
Until next time,
Chloe
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