This posting is suppose to be of the walnut rolls from my last post, but it is not an easy task to get the recipe correct.  My mom has been making the rolls for years and she knows all the ingredients by heart and when I asked her in term of measurements and cups, she looked at my with this HUH?? look on her face. I have all the ingredients to make the rolls, but I have to make it myself to explain to you how it is done exactly.  This might take me a while, so please give me some time, I promise I will post the recipe! Even if I have to make the rolls several times! So in the mean time, lets enjoy a slice of this vanilla pudding cake.

I had made this cake before, but I wanted to give another shot.  I excluded some of the ingredients I had used before and opted for a cleaner Vanilla Pudding Cake.  As you might already know, my husband loves puddings so this is up his ally but except that it is cake instead of  pudding.  It’s quite funny actually I simply can not satisfy his love for puddings!  He loves his milk just as much as my little angle loves her. 

A slice here and a slice their, just to satisfy my cake craving.  I impatiently waited for this cake to cook, once cooked and cooled, I cut two large slices and just took a bite.  Oh yes I had a nice decaf cup of Joe to along with it too, it was sort of like my 5:00 o’clock tea.  As if that was not enough, I grabbed the JIF peanut butter out of the cupboard and generously spread the PB on top of the cake!  Was I in heaven, oh was I in heaven!

I must admit I just love simple good cakes!

Vanilla Pudding Cake
                            adapted from VeryBestBaking 

 Ingredients 

• 1 box ready to use yellow cake mix (any brand)
• 1 pkg of instant vanilla pudding  (recipe calls for a 3.4oz)
• 1 cup of milk
• 1/2 cup of sour cream/yogurt
• 4 eggs
  (recipe called for morsels and walnuts, I opted to not use those ingredients to achieve a nice clean cake)

Preparation

1. FOR CAKE:
   PREHEAToven to 350° F. Grease and flour 12-cup Bundt pan or other tube pan.
2. COMBINE cake mix, pudding mix, milk, sour cream and eggs in large mixer bowl. Beat on low speed just until blended. Beat on high speed for 2 minutes. Stir in morsels and nuts. Pour into prepared baking pan.
3. BAKE for 55 to 65 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in cake comes out clean.
4. COOL in pan on wire rack for 20 minutes. Invert onto wire rack to cool completely.

Recipe Updated Here: Vanilla Pudding Cake Take 2

Lately I have not been feeling to well, it might this weather we are having.  Cold, warm, freezing, snow, rain – love the snow but I hate the rest.  All I want to do after work is come home and crawl underneath the covers read a few good books and watch a few good movies & that has been impossible to do!! Actually this is the first free week night I had in a while.

Once I got off the train, I headed straight to the supermarket.  I knew I needed to make yogurt since we had only one cup left.  So I bought a gallon of milk along with few other items, then I headed straight home.  Put away all my groceries, put the milk in pot over a medium heat, this will be for the yogurt.  Home made yogurt will be a separate new post coming up.  Yogurt has been the topic at work lately - my co-workers ask me “Ashly you make home made yogurt, how do you do it?”  So, I might as well blog about it right?

So, we all know I’m in baking mood, does not help in the “I am going to loose weight process” – but its’ winter who cares right??  I read this recipe taken from VeryBestBaking, on a Portakalagaci - Turkish food blog need to try it.  I did not have a chocolate cake ready mix but did have a yellow cake mix.  Printed out the recipe from Verybestbaking and make the ingredients to fit a yellow cake mix.

Lately all I’ve been doing, when I have time from a little work escape is reading and catching up on news.  But today I decided that, I have to stop watching the news and reading the paper! Its to depressing with to much depressing new on going!  Makes me feel so sad!  What has our world come to??

Rather I turn all my attention to baking, cooking and just reading blogs! Makes life a little bit more simpler!

Hope you will try the recipe!

Ingredients 
            adapted from VeryBestBaking ~ Original Recipe ~

• 1 box ready to use yellow cake mix (any brand)
• 1 pkg of instant vanilla pudding  (recipe calls for a 3.4oz)
• 1 cup of milk
• 1/2 cup of sour cream/yogurt
  ~ I used a can of puck cream
• 4 eggs
• 3/4 cup of white chocolate sweet morsels
  ~ I used nestle toll house brand
• 3/4 cup of chopped walnuts

Preparation

1. FOR CAKE:
   PREHEAToven to 350° F. Grease and flour 12-cup Bundt pan or other tube pan.
2. COMBINE cake mix, pudding mix, milk, sour cream and eggs in large mixer bowl. Beat on low speed just until blended. Beat on high speed for 2 minutes. Stir in morsels and nuts. Pour into prepared baking pan.
3. BAKE for 55 to 65 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in cake comes out clean.
4. COOL in pan on wire rack for 20 minutes. Invert onto wire rack to cool completely.