Dave Bakes a Cake
The CFO told Dave that he wasn't eating enough fruits and vegetables. And, naturally, he took that to heart.
Now, it just happened the CFO (or maybe it was Santa) gave Dave a KitchenAid mixer for Christmas and he's been looking for new applications (besides kneading bread) for the wonderful appliance.
Right out of the blue the idea struck him to combine the fruit admonition and mixer usage by making an orange cake!
Now Dave had never made a cake before. But he thought, "How hard can it be, especially with the aid of Duncan Hines?" Never mind that Hines never made a cake either. He was a traveling salesman who became a well known food critic based on reviews of the restaurants he frequented on the road. Roy Park, the Dobson, NC native and NC State graduate, approached him to lend his name to a line of packaged foods and the Hines-Park Foods company was soon founded. After only five years, the company was bought by Procter & Gamble and the rest, as they say, is history.
So it was that Dave dumped a box of Duncan Hines cake mix (bought at two for the price of one, of course) into the mixer bowl with some eggs, vegetable oil and water; turned the mixer on for a few minutes; poured the goop into a couple of cake pans; put the pans in the oven; and in 23 minutes Dave had an orange cake!
Oh, it ain't very pretty. Dave made the icing from scratch (using 10X sugar purchased on sale, of course) and didn't make enough for the sides. And, wouldn't you believe it, the cake came out of the oven with a triange missing out of each layer. So, he spinkled some grated orange peel on top to compensate.
The thing tastes mighty fine, though.
And, best of all, it's got fruit in it!
Now, it just happened the CFO (or maybe it was Santa) gave Dave a KitchenAid mixer for Christmas and he's been looking for new applications (besides kneading bread) for the wonderful appliance.
Right out of the blue the idea struck him to combine the fruit admonition and mixer usage by making an orange cake!
Now Dave had never made a cake before. But he thought, "How hard can it be, especially with the aid of Duncan Hines?" Never mind that Hines never made a cake either. He was a traveling salesman who became a well known food critic based on reviews of the restaurants he frequented on the road. Roy Park, the Dobson, NC native and NC State graduate, approached him to lend his name to a line of packaged foods and the Hines-Park Foods company was soon founded. After only five years, the company was bought by Procter & Gamble and the rest, as they say, is history.
So it was that Dave dumped a box of Duncan Hines cake mix (bought at two for the price of one, of course) into the mixer bowl with some eggs, vegetable oil and water; turned the mixer on for a few minutes; poured the goop into a couple of cake pans; put the pans in the oven; and in 23 minutes Dave had an orange cake!
Oh, it ain't very pretty. Dave made the icing from scratch (using 10X sugar purchased on sale, of course) and didn't make enough for the sides. And, wouldn't you believe it, the cake came out of the oven with a triange missing out of each layer. So, he spinkled some grated orange peel on top to compensate.
The thing tastes mighty fine, though.
And, best of all, it's got fruit in it!
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