Chocolate Cake

   Today, I decided to make a cake.  I have these really cool silicone (or something) molds.  They're shaped like oreos.  So I looked for a devil's food cake recipe.  Here's what I came up with:
David Lebovitz' Devil's Food Cake Recipe

It made a really tasty cake.
   I did change something in it though.  I didn't have cake flour.  (Who ever does?)  So I looked up how to change all-purpose into cake flour:
Joy the Baker-How To Make Cake Flour
It's actually really simple.  Just so you know, all-purpose is not self-rising.  Which I had to look up too, because I didn't know.


   I didn't use the frosting recipe that is listed with the devil's food cake recipe.  I used:
Martha Stewart's Vanilla Frosting
I was looking for a frosting that would be thick like store-bought.  This is slightly thinner.  The reason I didn't use the frosting listed with the devil's food cake was because first of all, we never have semi-sweet chocolate in the house, and second of all, I needed a white one for the oreo cookie cake.  Because of the added vanilla extract, it isn't perfectly white.  However, I didn't have any white food coloring, so I just had to live with it.  If white food coloring exists, I seriously need to get some. 

   The oreos, sadly, didn't come out of the pan as easily as I would have hoped.  I did the first one too early and it fell apart.  And I don't know what I did wrong with the second one but it didn't work very well.  Thankfully, it worked better than the first one.
   I didn't really think about it and just frosted it when it was still warm...Yeah...Siiigh.  So the white frosting ran off a little.  The amount of frosting that I got from Martha Stewart was not enough for these cakes.  So, I used a container of chocolate fudge store-bought frosting too.  I just kept it far enough in you couldn't really see it from the outside without cutting into the cake.
Here it is:

I told you it fell apart.  And that's the good side.  Oh well.

 So yeah.  It's really sweet.  Like really really sweet.  If I had some vanilla ice cream, this would be the bomb.  As it is, I can only eat a little bit at a time.  But it's so good.
   In the end I was left with a big mess.

And this wasn't all of it either.  There was another small counter.  And more dishes.

But my wonderful mother helped me clean it.  Yay for moms.