Dividing A Cake Mix, Gift Idea...need Help!
Decorating By Caribou Updated 8 Dec 2005 , 7:57pm by SquirrellyCakes
I just made my first Cake Mix Doctor recipe and the Darn good chocolate cake received rave reviews. As we near holiday season, I would love to give a cake to friends and family but I just don't have the time to make that many cakes.
I saw mini loaf pans that were ceramic and that you could bake in on sale at a craft store for a dollar and it gave me an idea. I'm wondering if I would package the dry ingredients for the Darn Good Chocolate cake recipe ( or any cake recipe)and wrap in nicely in the loaf pan and provide instructions for use and give these as gifts instead.
My main concern is breaking the recipe up. I'm thinking it would have to be divided by however many eggs go into the mix and I would determine my loaf pan gifts in qty. from that since there is no way to put in a half of an egg, right?
Has anyone ever done anything like this? How do you divide that up?
Well what a coincidence because I am using these for my individual Christmas centrepiece take home gifts! Got them at Michael's. I have yet to see if they will fit the Wilton mini loaf pans or if I will bake in them directly. I was hoping not to bake in them directly so they would be clean, but either way will work. But my plan is to make banana cranberry or banana chocolate chip loaves either in them or separately and place the finished loaf inside, wrap them will cellophane and attach crocheted snowflakes and placecards to the outside or possibly have my daughter make placecard magnets on the computer.
But as to your question about breaking down a cake mix, well, you are going to get several loaves out of one cake mix and you won't really be able to break down the eggs per each loaf. So no, this is not something that will actually work out. But what you could do is bake them and once they are cool, wrap them well in plastic wrap and freeze them, right in the container. Thaw them out or wrap them in cellophane from the dollar store and your friends can re-freeze them until they want to eat them.
Hugs Squirrelly Cakes
You got a better deal than I did, I paid $1.50 each. Ok, so the ceramic loaf container is inside measurement 3 1/4 inches by about 5 inches long by 2 inches deep. The Wilton mini-loaf pans are almost 2 1/2 inches by 4 1/2 inches by 1 1/2 inches deep. So the ceramics are bigger, but then you could wrap them and have space plus you could have room for frosting and such. Or you could bake right in them.
You could even use muffin mixes which would be fairly quick. Not sure how many you would get out of these, it states that you would get 12 Wilton mini loaves out of a recipe that normally makes a 9x5 inch loaf. They take the batter that normally makes two muffins for each loaf.
Hugs Squirrelly
Let me know how you make out with these. I don't plan to do them until the next week or just before Christmas. These would be such a nice treat for people that live alone or for a couple! I think it would be a lovely way of giving a variety of cakes or loaves to someone who cannot possibly eat the larger ones.
Hugs Squirrelly
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