Quick: Cake cooling...need frosting idea

[ktcolt]

I just baked a yellow box mix cake and I thought I had frosting in the cupboard...NOPE...not there.
Can I use Hershey chocolate syrup? Maybe make a poke or hole cake? Any quick ideas while the cake is cooling?!

[ktcolt]

I have powdered sugar and butter. I am not making a trip to the store...I am in the midst of unpacking after a hectic move...PMSing...sorry guys....and just needed a quick sweet fix. I thought it would be nice to have a nice bite of sweetness and enough left for dessert tonight! I thought for sure I had canned frosting to match the cake but it isnt there. Sigh. I was just looking for a super quick fix...Thanks!

[Melissavina]

I was in your position last night with some cookie bars in the oven. Luckily I found a jar of refrigerated chocolate fondue that I melted and poured over the top. Yummmm! Perfect for the PMS blues.

[ktcolt]

I know hershey syrup is too thin and watery but I am looking at the can longingly just wishing it could be the topping...the yellow cake by itself is not sufficient. Sigh.

If only to have been more prepared!

[MMRuth]

I'd just serve the cake "naked" and pour chocolate sauce on it - meaning, drizzled on it.

[Texchef]

Cake ought to help then! :) I'm sure it will be great however you make it.

[eefoodgeek]

You could try stiffening the Hershey's syrup with powdered sugar and seeing how that turns out. I've never done it before, but it might work.

[ElsieDee]

Okay - cream together about 1/2 c of butter and a box of powdered sugar - add milk or coffee or kaluha one teaspoon at a time until the frosting is stiff but semi-spreadable - mix in a tablespoon or two of the chocolate syrup (start with one tablespoon and incorporate more until spreadable consistency). Use to frost the cooled cake (enough frosting, I think, for sides, filling, and top of two 9" rounds - lots of extra frosting if a 9X13 sheet cake - if the latter, then cut recipe in half - or, freeze leftover frosting and scoop out by the spoonful when having a really bad day).

[ktcolt]

Awesome...thanks!!

[Melissavina]

New topic: What to eat when you're having PMS.
Yes?

[ktcolt]

Ice cream....but in the absence of....cake...plain as it may be!

[Texchef]

M & M's or 3 Muscateers

[ElsieDee]

Glad to help :) So how did it turn out?

It occurred to me in the middle of the night (was up doing a 3 AM feeding for some orphaned critters, and at that hour one's mind tends to wander) that after frosting the cake you could drizzle a bit more syrup over the top, if you wanted to, um, be over the top. Or you could sprinkle it with chocolate chips. Or syrup and chips, for that matter.

[amyzan]

Do you have powdered sugar in the house? fresh peaches? canned whip cream? All of those would make nice toppings for slices, not frosting, but will suffice in a pinch. If you want to make a substitute frosting, you could make a seven minute cooked frosting. I wouldn't go with Hershey's chocolate syrup myself. It's corn syrup based and will just flow off the sloped top of the cake, leaving a thin layer, not very attractive and messy to cut. If you have jam you could fill between the two layers with the jam and top with powdered sugar like a sponge cake.

[Melissavina]

Sweetened condensed milk and caramel sauce is nice... you'll have a dulce de leche cake! I poke holes in my cake with a chopstick first so it soaks in.

Good luck!

Drizzle some of that hershey's on it last if you're really in the mood for something sweet.

[Texchef]

Do you have confectioner's sugar, butter and vanilla? If you have time to get frosting ingredients before you need to take the cake somewhere you could go to the store. I don't think the syrup is thick enough, even if you poke holes in the cake, but you might be able to make more of a fudge out of it with powdered sugar. Hope that helps.