I love confetti cake! I also agree with you that boxed cake mix is superior as is homemade frosting. Check out my favorite cake cookbook- it’s called The Cale Doctor and every recipe uses a boxed cake mix, but then you doctor it up with extra ingredients! Every cake I have made from there has been delicious. Our go- to is the red velvet recipe! As for the state fair, I vote for strawberry rhubarb or lemon meringue (my two favorites)…for some reason, I can’t remember which pie you did last year. Was it Apple?
Last year I submitted a peanut butter pie and a plum pie. Interesting choices! I have never made a lemon meringue pie, so I definitely need to practice. Strawberry rhubarb is a great idea! I'll check out Cake Doctor. I know that doctoring up cake mix cakes is a whole thing online!
I know you had a debacle with getting rhubarb but if you get the sweetness/tartness combination and texture good with strawberry and rhubarb, you’d have a winner! Lemon meringue can be a show stopper as well if you get the crust right and the lemon portion with fresh lemons can be out of this world! Can’t wait to see what you end up doing!
I love confetti cake! I also agree with you that boxed cake mix is superior as is homemade frosting. Check out my favorite cake cookbook- it’s called The Cale Doctor and every recipe uses a boxed cake mix, but then you doctor it up with extra ingredients! Every cake I have made from there has been delicious. Our go- to is the red velvet recipe! As for the state fair, I vote for strawberry rhubarb or lemon meringue (my two favorites)…for some reason, I can’t remember which pie you did last year. Was it Apple?
Last year I submitted a peanut butter pie and a plum pie. Interesting choices! I have never made a lemon meringue pie, so I definitely need to practice. Strawberry rhubarb is a great idea! I'll check out Cake Doctor. I know that doctoring up cake mix cakes is a whole thing online!
I know you had a debacle with getting rhubarb but if you get the sweetness/tartness combination and texture good with strawberry and rhubarb, you’d have a winner! Lemon meringue can be a show stopper as well if you get the crust right and the lemon portion with fresh lemons can be out of this world! Can’t wait to see what you end up doing!
*Cake Doctor