Hello friends!
Here is a little sweet news for you, today. You don’t have to have a bunch of fancy ingredients to make a really great cake. In fact, if you make the most of the basic ingredients you have on hand, you can actually bake a super-fantastic cake.
The same is true in life. You don’t have to have lots of things or every “ingredient” you want to have a super-fantastic life. Just do a really good job with the basics like love, kindness, respect and honesty, and you can create a really awesome life for yourself and those around you.
This week we were challenged with making the best of what we had, when our oldest daughter Madison wanted to bake a cake. Her vision was a very colorful buttercream cake, but we were a long way from having all the ingredients required for such a fancy cake. Instead, she took inventory of the ingredients we had in the pantry, and decided to whip up the best cake possible with those ingredients.
The outcome was a very easy and DELICIOUS s’mores cake. It wasn’t sparkly, colorful or buttercream, but it was so much better rocking the ingredients we had instead of trying to make something that wasn’t for us that day.
You will love this recipe if you like chocolate, marshmallows and CAKE! The recipe my daughter used was the “1,2,3,4 cake” on the back of the Swan’s Down cake flour box, and she added cocoa powder to marbleize the cake batter. Once baked, she frosted the cake with two cans of Hershey’s chocolate frosting, and topped it all off with marshmallows, Graham crackers and chocolate chips. Woohoo!
While the s’mores cake itself was totally memorable, I hope the lesson in this baking project was even more memorable. I hope that my children never forget to love, stay honest, be kind, and respectful of themselves and others. Mastering the basics is the foundation of anything great. Cakes and beyond.
We hope you give this recipe a try and send us your photos and feedback!
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