Eclair Cake

The other night at Rosh Hashanah dinner, my honorary "big brother" made an amazing dessert - Eclair Cake. I LOVE eclairs so I was excited to taste it.

While I got this recipe from him, he originally got it from Paula Deen on the Food Network. And it is amazing!! By far my favorite dessert of the night! It's also incredibly easy to make - it's no bake.

Below is the recipe I got off the Food Network website.

Eclair Cake - Recipe courtesy Paula Deen

Prep Time: 10 min
Inactive Prep Time: 24 hr 0 min

Level: Easy

Serves: 20 to 24 servings

Ingredients
Cake:

* 1 (1-pound) box graham crackers
* 2 (3 1/4-ounce) boxes instant French vanilla pudding
* 3 1/2 cups milk
* 1 (8-ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed

Frosting:
* 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
* 1/2 cup cocoa
* 3 tablespoons butter, softened
* 1/3 cup milk
* 2 teaspoons light corn syrup****
* 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Directions

Butter the bottom of a 13 by 9 by 2-inch pan. Line with whole graham crackers.

In bowl of an electric mixer, mix pudding with milk; beat at medium speed for 2 minutes.


Fold in whipped topping.


Pour half the pudding mixture over graham crackers. Place another layer of whole graham crackers on top of pudding layer.


Pour over remaining half of pudding mixture and cover with another layer of graham crackers.

For frosting, blend together sugar and cocoa. Add butter and milk, mixing well. Add corn syrup and vanilla. Stir until creamy.


Cover cake with frosting and refrigerate for 24 hours.



**** If you don't want to use light corn syrup, you can substitute honey in the same measurement.


I made mini versions of this cake to take to a friends house tonight so hopefully they will like it as well!!

Enjoy!

Tie Dyed Cake

I once saw an idea online for a rainbow cake. it was awesome - had 6 different colors all swirled together like a tie-dyed T-shirt. I loved it. I couldn't get it out of my mind. I HAD to make a cake like that.

After researching how it was done, I decided to only use 2 colors plus the white of the cake. I chose 2 colors because we only HAD 2 colors of food gel in the house. They were orange and blue. Orange, blue and white cake.

Because my husband is a die-hard Mets fan (why? I don't know. They suck!), I decided to make him a Mets cake.

I got a lot of sh*t from my friends after I posted my finished product on Facebook. Most were insults on how the Mets suck.. okay fine. But a lot of people told me that the cake looked gross or weird.

I was shocked. Why would a tie-dyed cake be gross? Or weird? I thought it was cool! But whatever, I stood by my cake and my husband loved it. I ended up icing the entire cake in white icing so you only saw the colors when you cut into it.

It turned out to be pretty easy to get a swirled effect. Simply divide up the batter into even portions for however many colors you are doing. Since I had 3, I placed the batter into 3 bowls. I swirled my blue gel into one bowl, and orange into the other.

Then, I started dropping small amount of batter into the cake pan. First a dollop of white, then blue, then orange, all around until all the batter was in the cake pan. Since it was dropped in layers, that's how the cake bakes.

It's honestly pretty neat, and I bet kids would LOVE eating colored cake. Try it out - if nothing else, it's a fun activity. Enjoy!