When Stefanie of Red Velvet Stefanie sent me her French toast cupcake mix Teno could not wait to make it. Every day he harassed me to make them – but the mix makes 24 and I’m pretty sure we never need two dozen cupcakes in our house. We compromised when I remembered a recipe I used to make when I was a kid – cake mix cookies.
Now, if you’re using store-bought cake mix you can take that recipe and tweak it to your heart’s content. German chocolate was always my favorite, but I’ve had success with banana cake mix, coconut and walnuts and lots of other combinations.
Since this is a gourmet cake mix, made with actual flour and sugar instead of whatever the balls cake mix is made of, we tweaked my family’s favorite recipe a bit.
We used:
- French toast cake mix
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup butter, melted and cooled
- 1 cup quick oats
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup milk
Basically, you mix everything together and bake it for about 12 minutes. Not too tough, but Teno and I made a video to show you how. After you watch, keep reading to find out how you can bake along with Stefanie when she competes on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars July 27th.
That was a family production, by the way. Tony was our camera man. And yes, Teno says bad words and I’m trying to make him stop so just don’t encourage him please.
So – ready to bake along with Stefanie? Awesome, because she’s going to send one of you her Cupcake Wars Surprise Pack! The pack includes mixes for the four recipes Stef used in competition – did she take home the $10,000? You’ll have to tune in to find out! Leave me a comment about the first thing you ever baked all by yourself and I’ll choose one random winner to bake along with Stef with their very own Cupcake Wars Pack. (I’ll pick a winner one week from today. Open to US addresses only, please!)
Thanks everyone! Congrats to our winner Samantha!
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It’s all a little fuzzy now, but I think one of the first things I baked was a batch of mini-cheesecakes – the cheating kind with Nilla wafers for the crust. I’m usually dangerous in the kitchen so it was good that I started with something simple.
The first thing I can remember baking on my own, was a birthday cake for my mom using a boxed cake mix. I messed up something in the recipe and had to send my brother to the neighbor’s house for more ingredients so I could do it all over!
Very yummy cookies you have there. I love them! I would like to try some of them. Maybe I’ll get the recipe.
I don’t remember what I baked. Most likely chocolate chip cookies or blueberry muffins. I do remember making a gingerbread house around the age of 10.
The first thing i ever baked was Italian almond crescent cookies, from scratch. Ambitious, i know, but they were amazing!
The first thing I remember baking all by myself is banana bread from my grandmother’s recipe. I think I forgot the baking soda and didn’t bake it long enough so it came out doughy but I ate the edges and was perfectly happy!
Tino is hysterical.
Although we eat Chinese dish as our staple food , I am fond of eating French toast bread and French cake.
the first thing i ever baked solo was a jelly roll. i think i was about eleven. the recipe came from an alphabet recipe book i had just received. it wasn’t the most beautiful thing i’ve ever seen, but it was still delicious.
Most likely chocolate chip cookies. The most fun thing I ever cooked as a kid was brandy snaps, which I then entered in our local 4-H fair food judging competition. The judges were horrified!! that a minor!! used alcohol!! in baking!! But there was no rule against it, so in the end they gave me a blue ribbon, and then next year changed the rulebook to specify that there could be no alcohol in the recipes
that video was too cute! the first thing i ever baked on my own (that i remember) was an EZ bake oven cake mix when i was 6 or 7. i’ve been baking ever since
Well, I guess my first food experiment was a cake in my easy bake oven but after that it was a pie I made when I was 14 and it was supposed to be banana cream pie but it turned out to be banana soup in a shell.
The first thing I ever baked from scratch were vanilla cupcakes. They were pretty disastrous, not only because I way overdid the vanilla (I still add extra vanilla to everything, but in this case I put in, like, a quarter of a cup) but I forgot the baking powder. End result: Very Vanilla Cookies.
The first thing I baked ever was brownies from a mix. Being a sugar hound from a young age I dumped at LEAST two cups of the white stuff in, as well as about half a bottle of Hershey’s syrup. My family loved these, which says a lot about them, I think.
Peanut butter cookies I think it was for a class project:)
When I was a university I realised that since i wasn’t at home i could bake whatever i wanted! And go crazy on the extas i added too! I must have had a serious chocolate craving that day because i made quadruple chocolate “american style” cookies. They were pretty much chocolate bars with a bit of cookie inbetween. But ive tried making the recipe since and it never comes out as good. Beginners luck, huh!
Blueberry pound cake from a box
The first thing I tried to bake by myself was chocolate chip cookies – this, of course, did not go terribly well as somehow I had just completely forgotten to add the flour. Everything else had been measured and added, I rolled them all out, put them on the sheet, put them in the oven and checked on them and they had become a soupy mess. I think what I did was scoop it all back into a bowl and add the flour after the fact since they hadn’t been in the oven too long – pressed it back into the pan and they ended up “okay” cookies in sheet form. Oops.
My first memory of baking was at about age 4 with my mom and I burnt my arm really bad.
Because of that I got scared of the oven for a long time.
But once I finally got over it, the first thing I baked was chocolate chip cookies (and ruined them by keeping them in too long).
Oh my. The first thing I baked on my own was horrible! I was about 9 years old and decided to bake PB cookies. I thought everything went well, until we tasted them! I measured the baking soda and powder in cups and the cookies were horrible! I was so devastated because I wanted to surprise my mom.
I am proud to say that I didn’t give up and can bake with some of the best now!
Watched the Cupcake War and was totally inspired to work on some of my own cupcake recipes. …and I was really interested in checking out your blog! Love the title!
I’ve been baking alongside my Mom since I could walk, but the first thing I ever baked on my own was my Mom’s butter cookies! Always for Christmas….green, Christmas tree shapes and red, bell shapes. It’s still a must have every year! They turned out really nicely and awesomely introduced me to a cookie press at an early age!
Unfortunately, now that I’m lactose-intolerant, those cookies will only be a fond memory for me!
the first thing I remember baking by myself was chocolate chip cookies.
I still use that recipe today and its a favorite!!
the first thing i baked would be chocolate chip cookies I’m sure, my mom has her own award-winning recipe!
The first thing I baked by myself would have been some type of cake or cookie in my EZ Bake oven. I’ve loved baking ever since!
First thing I ever baked from scratch was Guiness chocolate mini cupcakes with Bailey’s cream cheese frosting. Sadly this was in March. I am 37 years old and just made my first from scratch recipe. Happily they were very delicious!! Every teacher in my school had to have one of my liquor and beer cupcakes since I couldn’t give them to the kids.
The first thing i ever baked all by myself was a box of brownies. I had always baked from scratch with my mother and grandmother, since i can remember, but for a beach get together with my friends i was asked to make brownies. This call mind you came at midnight by my best friend and i was none to happy since im generally grumpy when woken up at midnight. I got up, woke my mom up, I was 15 for this so i couldnt drive, and went to the corner supermarket (which wasnt that near hence i had to wake my mom up and she wasnt a ray of sunshine either), got my box and headed home to bed. Next morning i woke up at 7 am made my boxed brownies and they were the hit of the party! I was so proud of myself even thought they came from a box so I kinda cheated, lol. Now im studying to become a pastry chef and im baking all by my lonesome!!!!
The first thing I made by myself was a batch of biscuits at my grandmother’s. I had made them with her before but this time she let me do it myself. One of their dogs got a little too interested in what we were making, but it worked out well in the end.