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I found you a cake recipe that you might like. It says it makes 12 cupcakes or 1- 9x9 inch pan.

* 1 cup white sugar
* 1/2 cup butter
* 2 eggs
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/2 cup milk


If you need to size a recipe down, search allrecipes.com for whatever you want to bake, and when you are looking at the recipe, you should see a place where you can change the amount of people it serves. For example, say we want a cake that serves 10 people. Since the original one serves 12, we delete the 12 in the little box, enter 10, then press the change button. What we get is this:

* 3/4 cup and 1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon white sugar
* 1/3 cup and 1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon butter
* 1-2/3 eggs
* 1-3/4 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
* 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/3 cup and 1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon milk

I know its going to be a bit difficult getting 1 and 2/3 eggs, but its better than wasting stuff. I usually make won ton soup with the leftover eggs, or they can be frozen for up to 3 months.

If you use a cake mix, it's actually easy to save what you're not going to use.

Try to bake in square pans and then cut up your finished, cooled cake into the pieces you need to assemble the right sized cake for two and then wrap the other cake (undecorated, etc) securely in plastic wrap and store in an airtight container in the freezer. You can keep it for a few months that way and just thaw it out and cut again to assemble another smaller cake. 3nodding

I know I can never finish the whole thing in a recipe, so I just cut all the ingredients in half.

See, I haven't had good luck with defrosted cakes. I made a red velvet cake for Valentine's Day one year and my boyfriend didn't want to eat it, so I froze it. When I tried to thaw it out and eat it, ugh, it was gross. So I dumped it out.
I bought a cake slice once from Safeway and it looked really good. Took it home and it was the hardest cake I've ever had, it was gross! I asked my sister (who works at Safeway) what the heck was up with their cakes...she said they come frozen.

So yeah...that's been my experience with frozen cakes!