Cooking Exceptionally With Gin Lee

Skillet lemon cake with lemon cream cheese frosting This is a simple country-style lemon-flavored cake that's baked in a cast-iron skillet. The cake can be left plain, glazed with lemon sugar syrup, sprinkled with sugar-free or traditional powdered sugar, or served with whipped cream. The choices are endless. Today, I chose to create a lemon cream cheese frosting to enhance the lemony flavor of the cake. This cake is delightfully delicious, and it's super moist. The secret ingredient, or not so much a secret, is that I add one small box of lemon pudding mix to my cake batter. The pudding is added to the dry batter, and then mixed in with the rest of the cake ingredients. Ingredients: 2 eggs 1-1/3 cups of Splenda or sugar 6 tablespoons of canola oil 1/2 cup of milk 1 (3.4 ounce) box of lemon pudding mix 2 cups of self-rising flour 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract 2 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice (1 lemon squeezed) Zest from a lemon (For more lemon flavor, add more...

Photo made with Canva Studios Make Your Own Dry Cake Mixes at Home! If you've ever been curious about making your own dry cake mixes to keep in your pantry, you're in luck! Today, I'm going to show you how I make my basic dry cake mixes, how to store them, and the list of ingredients you'll need to bake them. Ingredients to make one basic cake mix: 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/2 cups granulated Splenda, or sugar 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt Note: If you'd like to shorten the list of ingredients, you can use 2 1/2 cups of self-rising flour or 2 1/2 cups of Original Bisquick baking mix as a substitute. Omit the baking powder and salt. To prepare more than one cake mix, just follow my list above and create as many batches as you desire. To make a chocolate cake mix, just add a 1/4 cup of cocoa powder to your basic cake mix. Adjust the amount of cocoa powder to suit your chocolate preference. To make a strawberry cake mix, add a 3-ounce package of dr...