Oh, for Pete’s sake. I was talking on the phone and accidentally hit “send” before I was ready to publish. That’s what happens when I talk to my sweet babboo and he speaks to me of things like rain. I get all happy, and then I hit “publish”.
OK. So let’s be real here. It looks like a sad little Munchkin gave up on life and jumped to his Oompa Loompah death rather than eat the sad little cake. Ah well… alas poor orange little friend… Snookie might like it, though!
Long story short, I love the frosting, but the cakes weren’t the light, fluffy concoctions of airy delight I was expecting. Plus, the pictures show I was having a moment. Still, I was able to make lemons out of lemonade…or, rather, Balls o’ Cake out of my sad looking dessert attempts.
The Frosting is easy to work with and tastes tremendous, but be sure to be patient when working with it. It will seem thin at first, but it thickens up due to the gums in the mix. Whatever you do, don’t panic and dump a bunch of low carb confectionery in there and end up with masonry spackle. Don’t ask me how I know that. I’ll never tell!
Long story longer: I loved the vanilla cake mix if you think of it as a pound cake. The chocolate cake mix was beautiful, but a wee bit dense for me, and the frosting? Ooh la la! Whether heated and poured as a glaze, or tinted and hugging your dessert, Glen could do no wrong with that frosting.
LC-Yellow Cake Mix
Rating: ♥♥♥
Price: $7.99 for 9 oz package
Usefulness: Making pound cakes and cake balls
Negative: Very dense cake, contains some wheat proteins and starches
Found: online
Website: HoldTheCarbs.com
LC -Chocolate Cake Mix
Rating: ♥♥
Price: $7.99 for 9 oz package
Usefulness: Making pound cakes and cake balls
Negative: Very dense cake, contains some wheat proteins and starches
Found: online
Website: HoldTheCarbs.com
LC-Vanilla Frosting Mix
Rating: ♥♥♥♥
Price: $7.99 for 8 oz package
Usefulness: Frosting your buns off, along with cakes, cupcakes, you name it
Negative: Sucralose along with stevia, but it works
Found: online
Website: HoldTheCarbs.com
Disclosure: These products were provided free of charge for review by a site sponsor, but has not affected the results.
Where's the recipe?
It's one of those embarrassing moments when the blog owner hits "publish" instead of "save"… *sigh* The post is there now! Sorry for the confusion…and lack of text.
i'm so excited about this post. i can't even tell you. i just ordered chocolate cake mix, yellow cake mix, choc frosting, vanilla frosting, and brownie mix.
but no pics of the cake balls?
omg i just scrolled back up to the top and saw the pic. duh!! please disregard.
but while i have you here, how did you do the white covered cake balls? i only saw a ganache recipe using chocolate.
Your cakes look good to me so there! After all it is CAKE! I'll have to go to the website now and really think about getting some. I like how you made the cake balls out of the mix.
Hi, Meli! The white is the frosting that was left over from frosting the other cake, so I heated that and drizzled it over the ganache. It was really nice. Thanks for asking! 🙂
LynnMarie, thank you! I want to make cake balls this next time out of a non-mix, from just a low carb cake, so we'll see how that goes!