I made my own dessert recipes - I need recipe testers

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Sorry, I wasn't sure where else to post this, because there doesn't seem to be any place on WrongPlanet related to baking and cooking. Anyway, I made my own recipes that I hope to use someday or even for my birthday possibly. All I need is to post the recipes I made so far, and I need to say that I would like people to test my dessert recipes I made, and to tell me what needs to be changed in the recipes. If you are allergic or not able to eat certain foods in my recipes, then you may either find a similar substitute, or just don't make it. At least I might have some people to try making my recipes to see what needs to be changed.

The first recipe of the four is as follows (but I hope to soon post the other three after this one is tested, and I will only post one recipe at a time):

Recipe #1 – Big Layered Double Chocolate Lava Cake

Ingredients:
- 1 box of butter cake mix (and all the ingredients required for the cake mix)
- 1 box of chocolate cake mix (and all the ingredients required for the cake mix)
- A small jar of hot fudge ice cream topping
- White chocolate chips (1 bag)
- 1 tablespoon of vegetable shortening (non-butter flavored)
- Non-stick cooking spray
- Nuttella chocolate hazelnut spread (optional)
- Whipped cream (optional)

Tools:
- 2 8-inch or 9-inch cake pans
- 2 large spoons and 2 smaller spoons
- 2 large dinner plates
- a knife for frosting if using the optional Nuttella

What to do:
1. Spray the pans with cooking spray. Make and cook the two cakes (butter cake and chocolate cake) from the mixes as directed on the boxes. You may have too much batter to use in just one pan for a layer of cake from both of the mixes, so refrigerate anything that cannot fit into one layer cake pan.

2. While the cakes are cooling, melt the white chocolate chips with the vegetable shortening. Mix well after the white chocolate is melted.

3. Put one large plate on top of the cooled butter cake, and the other large plate on top of the chocolate cake. Make sure you hold the plate while also grasping the cake pan, and flip the cake out onto the plate. Do this for both of the cake layers.

4. Using a small spoon, make randomly placed small holes in the top of the butter cake, and spoon some white chocolate into each hole. Do the same technique for the chocolate cake, but use the hot fudge sauce instead of the melted white chocolate.

5. You may wish to cover the previously made holes with frosting, which will go onto the bottom layer of chocolate cake. Use the Nuttella as a frosting on the chocolate cake on the bottom layer, and place the butter cake on top of it. If you want to, you can put whipped cream on top of the holes on the butter cake.

Thanks in advance for your help in testing my recipes.

AHHHHHH!

Cake!

Does that mean you will or will not test the cake recipe I made?
Sorry, I couldn't tell if you were screaming in shock, or joy.

HAPPY!! !! !

Well, could you or someone please test my first recipe as soon as possible. My birthday is around the middle of December, and I want to know if my recipes work, so I could possibly use them for my birthday.

Oh, if I had a place to cook I would. It sounds like it should be great, maybe add a bit of vanilla? Looks fine though. The icing will want to run perhaps.

Whoa that sounds like a very flavorful yet fattening cake. I'd like to try it but my mom wouldn't approve of making something like that.

Thanks for the tips! Here's my second recipe for testing (actually, I did try making this a long time ago, and I though it was good, but I was the only one eating it, since I really like Butterfinger bars. So, I will also post the third recipe and fourth recipe here for testing):

Recipe #2 – No-Bake Butterfinger Candy Pie

Ingredients:
- 4 king size Butterfinger candy bars
- 4 tablespoons of butter
- 1 box of mini brownies (store-bought)
- 4 individual servings of chocolate pudding
- 1 bag of chocolate chips
- 1 bag of peanut butter chips (if they are not available, just use more chocolate chips)
- a small container of Whoppers brand chocolate coated malted milk balls

Tools:
- A heavy large metal spoon for crushing the Butterfinger bars
- A large resealable plastic sandwich bag
- A large bowl
- a small microwavable container for the butter
- A knife for chopping the whoppers
- An 8 or 9 inch cake pan or pie plate

What to do:
1. Unwrap the Butterfinger bars and crush them in the large sandwich bag using the back of the heavy spoon. Be sure to get all the air out of the bag before you seal it with the Butterfinger bars in it.

2. Melt the butter in the microwave, and add the crushed Butterfinger bars to the large bowl. Add the melted butter to the crushed Butterfinger bars in the large bowl. Mix well to combine. Press the Butterfinger mixture into the cake pan or pie plate.

3. Squish the mini brownies into small circles or square-like shapes. Press the flattened mini brownies onto the Butterfinger crust. You may need to layer the brownies if you have too many, but this is preferable for a thicker chocolate cake-like layer.

4. Pour the pudding on top of the brownie layer. Top with chocolate chips, and if they are available, top with peanut butter chips too.

5. Chop about 1 or 2 handfuls of the whoppers in half, and sprinkle those on top with the chocolate chips and peanut butter chips.


Recipe #3 – Quick No-Bake Jam Pie

Ingredients:
- 1 box of shortbread cookies (crushed in a large sandwich bag)
- finely chopped pecans, or any nut of your choice, or any mixture of finely chopped nuts
- 4 tablespoons of butter
- a large jar of any jam you like (for example, strawberry, blueberry, peach, or a chunky type of apple sauce)

Tools:
- An 8 or 9 inch cake pan or pie plate
- a small microwavable container for the butter
- a spoon for the jam
- a spoon or spatula for pressing the crust into the pan or pie plate
- a large bowl

What to do:
1. Put the crushed cookies and nuts into the large bowl. Mix well, and add melted butter.

2. Press the cookie and nut mixture into the cake pan or pie plate. Chill it for about 10 minutes to get it to be more firm.

3. Add the entire jar of jam of your choice (or chunky apple sauce). You may have too much jam to fit into one pie, so if it does look over-filled, spoon some of the jam back into the jar, or into another container for later use. Keep the pie refrigerated until ready to use.

Recipe #4 –Kool-Aid Flavored Dessert Pasta

Ingredients:
- 1 pound of confectioners sugar
- any single pouch of unsweetened Kool-Aid flavored drink mix (any flavor)
- 4 tablespoons of butter, melted (more or less depending on the consistency of the “pasta dough”)
- Milk (only needed if the consistency of the dough is too dry to hold its shape)
- Hot fudge ice cream topping (optional)

Tools:
- a big bowl
- a microwavable container for melting the butter
- a spoon
- a cutting board or a clean flat work surface in the kitchen
- a knife

What to do:
1. In a large bowl, mix together the confectioners sugar, Kool-Aid, and butter. Add a little milk if the dough is too dry. If it's too wet to grasp, add more confectioners sugar.

2. Spoon the dough onto the cutting board or clean work surface. Using the spoon, spread the dough out until it's flat like pasta dough.

3. Use a knife to cut the “pasta dough” into thin pasta strips, or squares for making it into candy-like ravioli. You may want to fill the candy ravioli with the hot fudge sauce, or if you made “candy noodles”, you may wish to lightly drizzle the candy pasta with the hot fudge sauce. Remember that ravioli requires two of the same shaped pieces of “candy pasta dough”, one on top and the other on the bottom, in order for it to close properly. Also, you might need to brush a little water on the edges of the ravioli, if you make that kind of candy pasta. That will keep the edges together once you press them to seal the two parts.

By the way, I am very much a sweet tooth kind of person. I love making desserts as well as making dinners with my mom. Sometimes I even make dinner for my family on my own, but that's not too often right now. Could someone please tell me what needs to change, if anything, in my recipes?

Yum. They all sound good. I didn't like the first one because I don't really like cake. I like the sound of that koolaid dessert pasta! I have to make my step sister who wants to be a chef make it for me.