Week 1: Chocolate/Strawberry Cake and Cheeseburger Bake

I tried 2 new recipes this week, here's how they turned out!

1 - Chocolate/Strawberry Cake
As most of you know, Michael's birthday was Wednesday this week.  So, to celebrate I tried a new recipe as well as a new Christmas present for his cake.  Mama bought me a "Big Top" giant cupcake mold for Christmas.  It has various recipes in it's instruction guide, as well as suggested ways to decorate.  Michael said he wanted either chocolate or strawberry for his cake, so I got an idea to mix them together.  The cake mold cake with an insert that allows for a filling inside of the cake, so I decided that between the filling and frosting, as well as the cake mix itself, I could make a cake with both flavors.  Long story short: chocolate cake with a strawberry jam/diced strawberry filling and strawberry frosting.

Rating - 3.5/4 thumbs up!!
I took off a half thumb because I didn't think it looked very pretty when I was done frosting it.  Another thing to note is that after a couple days the jam all seeped into the cake, making it very rich and moist!  It only gets better with time!  Yum!!!

2 - Cheeseburger Bake
Tonight for dinner I tried out a new recipe from my Bisquick Cookbook.  It's sort of like a cheeseburger pizza/quiche.  The bottom layer is Bisquick, water, eggs, and cheese.  The topping is ground beef, cream of mushroom soup, onion, green pepper, tomato, and cheese.  It actually turned out exactly like the picture!

Rating - 4 thumbs up!!
It's sooo tasty!  You should totally try out this recipe!

Write me a message, shoot me a text, or send me an email if you're interested in either of these recipes.  We loved them both! 

P.S. - Look at the picture in the cookbook!  Doesn't it look exactly the same?!?!

The Chocolate/Strawberry Cake was my own concoction (no recipe) and the Cheeseburger Bake was from my Bisquick cookbook