Hi everyone. I am making a cake for my best friend's party this weekend. She is turning 21 so I was doing some research on cake ideas and I came to this wonderful forum. I love it.
I was thinking making a Fuzzy Navel cake. She likes yellow cake so I had found a basic yellow cake recipe. But when I found the recipe for the Fuzzy Navel cake, it called for 1 box of yellow cake mix. Is it okay to use the yellow cake recipe from scratch or will the ingredients not mix well?
Here are the recipes if it helps:
Yellow Cake Recipe:
3 cups sifted cake flour
2/3 cup butter or margarine
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 1/4 cups milk
Fuzzy Navel Cake Recipe:
1 box yellow cake mix
1/2 c. vegetable oil
1 lg. instant vanilla pudding
1/2 tsp. orange extract (optional)
4 eggs
3/4 c. peach schnapps
1/2 c. orange juice
Also, I wanted to make this a double layer cake so I was trying to think of a filling that would compliment the cake. Would it work if I mixed some peach schnapps into the butter cream or will that ruin the consistency? Does anyone have any ideas of what I can use as a filling? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot!
I did a 3 layer a few years ago like this. I subbed the water w/ OJ and once the cake was cooled, I brushed each layer in the Schnapps. I used Peach preserves as the filling. I used a cream cheese frosting.
I'd be concerned with the acid in the orange juice messing up the chemistry of the scratch cake. Mix cakes are more tolerant of additions and changes.
If you want peach schnapps in the buttercream I'd substitute it for part or all of the liquid which is normally in your buttercream recipe.
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