Funnel Cake Cake

Cakes and I have a terrible relationship where I follow all the “Cake Baking 101” rules to a T and my cake still looks like I did it blindfolded, upside down and while on crack. The terribly frosted, crumby sides. The topsy-turvy lean. The poorly decorated-cake accouterments. Every cake I touch looks like a CakeWreck.

And giiiiirl, don’t even get me started on fondant. I don’t even know what it is, and thinking about it sends me into a downward spiral of hair pulling and name calling. If I need special tools to use it, frankly, I’m not interested. I’d much rather spend my would-be fondant-rolling money on things like this or this. Sue me.

But sometimes I really want to make a pretty, tasty, and pseudo-elegant cake without all the fuss behind elaborate cake-making. It is an art, much like the art of eating whatever you want and not gaining weight, and the art of liking Beyonce, of which I do not possess. However, this time, I think I nailed it. Except for the non-bacon funnel cake part.

Back to my roots of “no-fuss”, I knew I wanted to make this cake but the thought of making a cake AND a funnel cake had me scratchy. Clearly I had better things to do, like watch Pretty Little Liars or obsessively floss my teeth. So admittedly, I used a box of funnel cake mix that I found at the dollar store. Heed my advice, lazy children like myself: don’t used boxed funnel cake mix. It really doesn’t do anything in your favor except falsely moonlight as bacon on top of a cinnamon cake.

Silly me, because there are tons of easy funnel cake recipes on the interwebs. I’m particularly fond of this simple one from my girl, Nikki. Why I didn’t just buck up and make it myself, I don’t know, but I do know that overall, the cake was scrumptious–fake funnel cake or not–and I’m only imagining that a real funnel cake atop this delicious cinnamon-vanilla studded cake would be, well, the cake on the cake.

Do it.