Bisquick and the Birthday Bash!

Bisquick is the bomb! We bought a box of Bisquick when we did our cheap staple food shopping, and it's just amazing how many things you can make with it! Its not just for pancakes! ;)

A few days ago Mike found this awesome cornbread recipe online:

• 3/4 stick butter
• 2 cups bisquick
• 1 egg
• 1 can creamed corn

-melt butter in 8x8 baking pan. Mix Bisquick, egg, and corn. Pour into melted butter. Bake @ 350 for 25mins or until golden brown.

It turned out great. It's not too sweet though, we will probably consider adding a little bit of sugar next time we make it. The buttery edges were the best! ;) mmmmm.

On Beatrice's birthday we were looking online for cake recipes and found one using Bisquick. It sounded so simple we just had to try it. Here is the original recipe:

• 2 cups Bisquick
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 tsp vanilla

-Combine Bisquick and sugar. Add milk, beaten eggs, melted butter, ans vanilla. Beat to smooth up the batter. Pour into greased and floured 8x8 pan. Bake @ 350 (original recipe called for 400, but we decided that was too hot) for 45mins (cupcakes for 30mins).


-We added half a bag of butterscotch chips to the batter. The cool thing was that the batter was pretty thin, so they all sank to the bottom and we ended up with a nice cookie type bottom layer of the cake! It was delicious! For the second cake today we added half a bag of chocolate chips - and it was just as delicious!

Beatrice helped out a little ;)

As we wanted a full sized cake we decided to double the recipe. Turned out that it was a little too much for a 9x13 pan! It really rose up quite a bit, and blew out the side a little (lucky too because I think otherwise it may have gone over the edge!).

We decided that the perfect amount of batter would be 1 and 2/3rds of the ingredients. 1 1/2 was too little and double was too much. So today when I made the cake I did some really funky math ;) (me and math just don't mix)... Me and my funky math just added 2/3rds to everything (ie: 2 2/3 c bisquick, 1 2/3 c sugar) which wasn't really 1 2/3rds of the amounts called for... one and a half would have been 3 c bisquick... Anyway, it turned out to be the perfect amount of batter and it tasted quite good, so I didn't mess up too bad ;)

Here's a nice close up picture of the cookie crust ;) this one was with the chocolate chips. Yummy!

Beatrice loved the cake

Especially the frosting! :)

And to continue with the birthday bash

She loved all of her presents! She got into the opening part pretty good, but she really wanted to play with everything right away!