Basic Yellow Cake

I have been searching for the perfect yellow cake for a long time to make for birthdays, weddings, etc.  This might be it.  I found the recipe at Smitten Kitchen.  It has a good flavor, and possibly more importantly, it is moist.  I never have trouble with other flavors of cake being moist, but yellow just never seems to be quite moist enough.  The cake was also incredibly easy to work with.  I used two eight inch pans, which meant I had really thick layers, so I torted them.  This was definitely the easiest cake to torte I have every made.  And, if that wasn't enough to make you try it, the fact that it iced so easily might do it.  I almost think I could have forgone the crumb coat.  All that being said, I am not one hundred percent sure this is the one, so I will continue to try more recipes, and keep you updated on the progress.

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Oreo Brownie Birthday Cake

This is a birthday cake I made recently.  It is absolutely yummy.  I made it using two layers of these brownies without the nuts.  To do this you need to double the recipe and bake it in a 9" x 13" pan, twice.  Yes that is right, four recipes altogether.  And, yes that is two whole pounds of premium chocolate.  I didn't say it was cheap or low calorie... And, I have made it with a sandwich cookie pan using one recipe for each layer, but we needed more this time.  In between the two layers is one recipe of the center filling you find in Oreo ball recipes.  Really it isn't a recipe, it is just one package of oreos blended in the food processor with one 8oz. package of cream cheese.

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