Vanilla Bean Baby Cake Mix to make Strawberry Pink Tea Cakes
Make delightful little tea cakes for desserts, parties, and gifts. They're easy.
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No wonder this is an extraordinary mix!
This is a cream cake mix--"pudding in the mix"--with real ground vanilla beans in the mix. It's different than store mixes, and not just the ground vanilla beans. It's got substance to it.
If you add cinnamon chips to a store cake mix, they sink to the bottom. Same with chocolate chips. If you add chips to this mix, they stay suspended and disbursed. That's because there's more cake to this mix and more flavor. It's more luxurious.
It's a cream cake mix--pudding in the mix.
It was designed as a professional cupcake and small dessert mix, with enough substance to compete with a filling and a frosting. It's luxuriant.
Pink Tea Cakes
Pink Tea Cakes
These cakes are a delight!
We make these with a vanilla-bean baby cake mix, swirled with strawberry pastry filling for both color and flavor.
And we have fun with the pans. Shown here are cakes made in loaf pans of different sizes, a square cupcake pan, and a "Twinkie" pan.
We've made these cakes in various sizes. A mix will make four loaves in pans that are three inches wide by five inches long, for cakes about 3 1/2 x 6 inches. We cut these into one-inch slices for 24 servings from one mix.
Set the oven temperature to 325 degrees.
- Mix the batter according to package instructions.
- Fill the four pans half full. Distribute strawberry pastry filling on top of the batter. (We use four ounces of pastry filling per mix. A package of pastry filling is 32 ounces.)
- Distribute the remaining batter over the filling in each pan.
- Hold a silicone spatula close to vertical and drag it through the batter in each pan to make colored swirls through the batter.
- Bake the little cakes for 30 to 32 minutes. Place them on a rack to cool.
Different-sized pans will require different baking times.
Make a thick powdered sugar icing. Add filling for both color and flavor, to taste. The filling will thin the icing to a drizzling capacity.
Slice the cakes before icing them. Both the melted chips and swirls will be prominent in the slices. Drizzle with the icing before pulling the slices apart. (We slice the cakes before icing to get neater slices.)
Each 2-pound pack of pastry filling will make six to eight batches of these little cakes.
