My mother-in-law has a birthday this month, and we celebrated last weekend. We don't generally do big birthday celebrations for adults, so I wanted to do something to make it special. My mother-in-law loves blue food, the brighter the better. I decided I was going to make her a blue cake with blue icing.
I found a recipe for Jello cake online. I also found a recipe for Kool-Aid glaze, but I didn't really follow it. If you need a recipe, follow the one with the Jello cake but substitute milk for water. My wonderful husband went to five stores to find both blue Jello and blue Kool-Aid. I can't believe it was that hard to find. In the end, he still had the wrong Kool-Aid, but at least it did turn the glaze blue. The cake was blue berry flavored (note: not blueberry), and the glaze was blue raspberry lemonade. It took a ton of powdered sugar to tone down the lemonade tang.
My husband (did I mention he's wonderful?) suggested using a Bundt pan, and I elected to use the rose-shaped pan that my mother-in-law gave me in honor of my middle name: Rose. The cake cooked up beautifully, and hubby completely drenched it with the glaze. When cut, it wasn't as blue as I had hoped (and the camera makes it look really yellow green), but you could tell it was supposed to be blue. The cake was moist and subtle, and the glaze added a slightly crunchy, tangy-sweet contrast.
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