lemon surprise cake recipe

i should have posted this earlier! sorry!

here is the recipe from the cake i talked about here. it's really simple. i think levi's mom got it from the back of a cake mix or jello box.

ingredients:

cake:

- 1 package Duncan Hines lemon supreme cake mix

- 4 eggs

- 1/2 cup vegetable oil

- 1 cup water

- 1 package lemon Jello

icing:

- 2 lemons

- 2 cups sifted powdered sugar (i don't have a sifter, so my icing is lumpy)

directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees for metal baking pan, 325 degrees for glass or Pyrex.

2. Combine all cake ingredients. Beat for a couple minutes.

3. Pour batter into 9" x 13" greased & floured pan.

4. Bake for 35-40 minutes.

5. While cake cooks, zest & juice both lemons (we like to use LOTS of zest).

6. Combine zest & juice with powdered sugar. Mix well.

7. Remove cake from oven. Punch holes in it with a large fork.

8. Pour icing on top of cake while it's still hot.

Enjoy!

that's all for today. enjoy black friday! be safe out there with all those sale-hungry shoppers!

a birthday tradition

in levi's family, levi's mom made everyone a lemon surprise cake on their birthdays.

it's tradition.

levi told me about this when we first started dating, so when his birthday was approaching that year, i emailed his sister for the recipe. i baked it for him as a surprise. and now it's a tradition for us too!

when we have kids, i plan on waking them up early in the morning with a lemon surprise cake on their birthdays. you should be able to eat cake for breakfast on your birthday after all!

it is the best cake in the world. not very pretty (pretty ugly in fact), but VERY delicious. i love it. so easy too.

so here's what levi's birthday cake looked like less than 24 hours after i made it:

there's a fork in there because that's how most of it was eaten: straight out of the pyrex with a fork. ha!

the last row was quickly devoured after this photo was taken.

levi ate 80% of the cake. here he is eating the last bite:

looks a little sick, doesn't he? yeah, he woke up sick the next morning.

that's what happens when you eat the better part of an entire cake in one day, silly!