Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Last Minute Valentines Day Remedy

It’s too late to book a table and too late to call a bakery and order your favorite cake; it’s even too late to call on your Culinista™ to help you whip up a Valentines Day treat. In this emergency, it’s never too late to call on the Cake (mix) Doctor.

On Valentines Day, people always struggle over what an ordeal the whole thing becomes—from making reservations, to doing something romantic, to buying the right chocolates, flowers, and heart-shaped memorabilia.

Well, if you haven’t done any of this, don’t sweat it! All you have to do is use a recipe from The Cake Mix Doctor. In this cookbook—and website (www.cakemixdoctor.com)—one ambitious baker shows how to improve cake mixes into just about any type of cake. From the base of a yellow cake mix, making recipes like Peanut Butter Surprise Cake, Strawberry Cake, and Banana Pudding Cake are a snap with only a few extra ingredients. Chocolate cake mix manifests itself into molten chocolate hot pots, rich raspberry brownies, and Fudge Bites.

The recipes are great in a pinch because the ingredients can be purchased almost anywhere—your corner deli or even at a Duane Reade. So long as you’ve got a cake mix, butter, and perhaps a hand full of chocolate chips on hand, all you’ll need to present an elaborate cake to your love will be the showcase ingredients in the recipes you choose—peanut butter? Strawberries? Lemon meringue?

Take a moment to peruse the recipes, evaluate your kitchen, and then run to the store to get your odd ingredients. While you are there, get some of those heart-shaped tins that are everywhere right now.
To make your chosen specialty cake into the Special Valentines Day Cake, just pour the batter into a big heart shaped tin. When it’s cooled, scatter some heart-shaped candies or chocolates or some sliced strawberries on or around the heart.

And, just as your companion was beginning to think that you hadn’t planned a thing, the cake doc can heal a broken heart.

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