My Second Attempt At Doctoring Box Cake Mix

Over this past weekend my little Lion cub turned 2. And since I made Blue's birthday cake, I knew I had to make Lion's birthday cake as well. And naturally I also took that time to also try out more box cake doctoring techniques. And this time, I decided to use the advance version of doctoring a cake.

The Remake

Trying Another Way to Doctor Box Cake Mix

Instructions from Together as Family

Supplies Needed:

Box Cake Mix
Eggs
Vegetable Oil
Sour Cream
Milk
Vanilla
Instant Pudding
Baking Spray
Basic Baking Supplies (Whisk or Stand Mixer, Oven, Cake Pan, Spatula, and etc.)
Optional: Castle Bundt Pan

Results

Since Lion is still too little to tell me what kind of cake he likes, I had to decide for him. So I decided to make him a funetti birthday cake. (I actually tried really hard to get Blue to pick funfetti for his birthday as well, but he was firm in his decision for a chocolate cake.

Anyway I mixed all of the ingriedents together and since my cake mix was slightly under the size of box mixes recommended, I just cooked it all in one cake pan.

When I pulled it out of the oven it looked like that was a mistake and that my cake had really expanded out of the cake form.

But after it cooled it settled back down into the cake pan,

In fact the only problem I had was that one side of my cake didn't quite cook enough, but I let it cool anyway. (That was a major mistake... so next time I guess I need to put my cake pan in better!)

Here is how the cake turned out: