Next week we are releasing a new product called VIA ready brew. It’s instant coffee, and totally delicoius. My problem with getting excited and selling it is the fact that I don’t drink brewed coffee. I’ve had a really hard time becoming excited for something that (I thought) had no applications to my life.

And then I remembered this.

Like I say in that post, there is never an inappropriate time for cake. Lost your job? Eat some cake. Won an award? Eat some cake. Found a puppy? Eat some cake. Got a flu shot? Eat some cake.

But I digress.

Last week I did a quick twitter survey of whether I should combine VIA with a chocolate cake. My three responses were an overwhelming yes.

2 packs of VIA + 1/2 the batter in a chocolate cake mix.

= 1 pretty lookin’ cake.
The marbled effect really doesn’t make a difference in baking, except maybe make the coffee taste a little more potent. And really, the cake just tastes INCREDIBLY RICH. Not so much like coffee.

And here it is frosted, with coffee beans on top! I think that next time I will use chocolate covered coffee beans, and maybe use a little bit more instant coffee. It is SUPER delicious, though!

Overall verdict: awesome. You should try it!

It being end of term, I decided to try out omnomicon’s rainbow cake recipe! I then examined the “diet” reicpe and decided that since I was going to take this cake to share, I’d use the regular cake mix. Delicious!

The mix all sorted out. Looks cool, eh?

All dyed up!
A few people have remarked on the brilliancy of the colours, but really? It’s not that hard: just use a lot, and mix mix mix mix mix it up! It does help that I was paid to mix and food-colour fudge for a local gift shop a few years back, so I have loads of experience, but still! Easy-As-Pie, only… here we’re making cake.

Frosted it with just white frosting, which made cutting it open a bit more exciting for everyone I fed it to in class. It was a smashing success, and was devoured in a neat half-hour! Win!

What fun things have you done lately?

*Scratch cakes taste like bricks. Every single scratch cake I have ever had has tasted awful, and I am friends with some rather good pastry chefs. Cake mixes are AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~!