You couldn't even call it moist anymore and I think that's due to the actual nature of the gelatin itself and not the water added to it. My cake sort of had a fruit loop cereal type flavor. Does your orange WASC have a similar flavor? Use frozen juice concentrate. Mix 1 volume thawed concentrate straight from the can with 1 volume of water and use that in place of water in any white or yellow cake mix.
Also remember to add orange oil or orange extract or grated orange peel. I do this without adding or adjusting baking powder or soda, it tastes great. For some reason I was thinking about this today. Unsweetened Kool-Aid is powdered coloring and flavoring enough for two quarts of liquid. Jello is gelatin and mostly sugar, with powdered coloring and flavoring.
Don't need more sugar in a recipe, or any gelatin at all in a cake. Yet people report adding jello packages to their cake batter. Doesn't sound like many people have tried this, or reported on this. My baking curiosity is tweaked.
Made cupcakes and the batter was super delicious and very fragrant. But it lost some of the flavor in the cooking. Made a sheet cake and again the batter was delish, again lost flavor. I did. Kool-Aid and Tang were common powdered drinks I enjoyed over the summer. Did you know you can add your favorite flavor of Kool-Aid to your cake mix to make a kool aid cake? Well, now you know. A kool aid cake in this case is white cake mix with Kool-Aid drops mixed into the batter in different amounts to give the cake a beautiful ombre effect.
The blue ombre cake featured in this post was made with blue raspberry Kool-Aid drops. I also used the drops in the frosting to create the same 3-tiered ombre effect. The blue raspberry ombre cake was made with the concentrated blue raspberry drops.
I have also made Kool-Aid cake with powdered mix. Either options work fine, but you do have to adjust how much Kool-Aid you add to each cake batter depending on how vibrant the color is in that particular flavor of Kool-Aid. The blue raspberry color is pretty vibrant so no additional food coloring was needed. But the powdered grape Kool-Aid turned out more gray than purple when baked into the cake, so it needs the addition of red and blue food coloring to get a brighter purple color.
Whether you use Kool-Aid or food coloring, you will need at a minimum 3-layers of color gradient. As I mentioned earlier, I used a box of white cake mix for my base cake batter which I divided evenly into three bowls and added different amounts of Kool-Aid to get me a light, medium and dark color.
Once baked, I let the cakes cool on a cooling rack completely. I share in the recipe my favorite buttercream recipe. I use less sugar than most other recipes because I find too much sugar takes away the delicious butter flavor. Plus, we are adding Kool-Aid to the frosting, which means more sugar and flavor. I first frosted the cake using the plain basic buttercream. I added thick layers of buttercream between each layer and gave the entire cake a white crumb coat. The remaining frosting I divided into 3 bowls and created 3 gradient colors, adding Kool-Aid to get the same effect.
I then added rings of colored frosting over the white frosting, starting with the dark frosting on the bottom and the light frosting on the top of the side of the cake. I kept the very top of the cake white. You can pipe the ombre frosting on the sides using piping bags or ziploc bags with a corner cut off, or you can use an offset spatula and smear on the colored frosting.
Once the 3 different colors of frosting is on the side of the cake, use your offset spatula to smear it smooth, blending the layers together. You can also use this very handy frosting scraper which creates the ultra smooth finish bakery made cakes have. I have one.
This ombre frosting effect is also similar to a watercolor frosting effect. And what I like most about frosting a cake this way is that you can hide your mistakes really well! Another method of frosting an ombre cake is to mix one big bowl of the darkest frosting then pipe or smear it onto the bottom part of the cake.
Then add more white frosting to lighten it up and then smear or pipe that lighter color above the darker. Then finally add some more white frosting to lighten it up even more and then pipe or smear it on last. Then use the offset spatula to smooth it all together. Since I used white box mix cake for my base cake batter, the flavor is basically plain, mild vanilla.
The real flavor comes from the Kool-Aid you add to the cake. Thank you! I rewrote the instructions a bit better to make it more easily understood. I apologize for that. Let me know if you need help still.
You need 1 packet for the cake and one packet for the frosting. I have used two packets in the cake which can be very good, but can also sometimes be too strong depending on flavor. So I would stick to one in the cake your first time. Good luck and happy birthday to your sweet girl! We use the packets of unsweetened. I think you could maybe use the sweetened mix, but I would imagine that would be a very very sweet cake. I know my kids enjoyed them.
Have you visited our Products list? Need more recipe ideas? Combine the cake mix, Kool-Aid, oil, and eggs in a large mixing bowl and mix well.
Pour the mixture into greased cupcake wrappers until about the half way mark. Continue for all 24 cupcakes. Bake for about minutes or until poked with a toothpick, the toothpick comes out clean.
While they are cooling prepare the whipped cream. Place the whipping cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla in a mixing bowl and mix on high until a whipped consistency is formed.
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