No, don't expect it to be a regular thing.
I do believe cooking is an art, and I've always been one of those really artsy-fartsy types of people--but I don't really have much time for the artistic things I used to do like writing and producing music and drawing. Writing is a nice quick release. Making videos is too, but it can be a headache, and I soo much prefer writing. Cooking, though, has so much beauty behind it, it makes people happy--sometimes just downright excited--and it is a quick way to put yourself into something you or other people will enjoy.
So, as promised in my first post--here is a recipe. It's not mine. My cousin told me about it and its pretty widely available across the internet. But this is what I did for my daughter's birthday. It's a simple one, but its one that the kids will have fun doing and, of course, love eating. Its pretty easy with not a lot of cleanup--which is always important--and its delicious.
When I made this cake, I also made a butter cream frosting to top it with--and what I ended up with was 25 slices of hyperactivity! It was good, but I think it would have been so much better if I had gone with a whipped cream topping or cool whip. At least that's what I'd recommend, but I'll leave the frosting up to you. Here's how to make a Jell-O cake:
Ingredients:
1 box of white of yellow cake mix, along with all ingredients specified on the box
1 small box of Jell-O, any flavor (mine was cherry)
1 cup boiling water
1 cup cold water
frosting, sprinkles, fruit, and other decorating yummies
Instructions:
(1) Prepare the cake mix as specified on the box for a 9"x13"x2" baking pan. It would be a great idea to boil the water during the tail-end of the cake's baking time, so that the cake and the Jell-O mix can cool down at the same time.
(2) Stir the box of Jell-O into the cup of boiling water. Continue stirring it until all of the Jell-O mix is dissolved. Then pour in the the cup of cold water. Stir the cold water in, and then allow both the cake and the Jell-O juice/liquid/not-so-Jell-O-Jell-O-stuff to cool to room temperature.
(3) Stab the cake--seriously--poke it over and over again with something long and thin. Toothpicks will work. If you're like me and you just don't have toothpicks on hand, repeatedly impale your cake with an uncooked spaghetti noodle. It works!
(4) Gently pour the Jell-O juice over the top of the cake. Then cover your cake with aluminum foil and refrigerate it for four hours.