Are You Kidding Me Cake from Cooktop Cove

Are You Kidding Me Cake - made May 8, 2024 from Cooktop Cove 

1 box cake mix, any flavor (I used yellow cake mix)

1 can pie filling (I used apple pie filling)

3 large eggs

Caramel for drizzling on top of baked cake, optional

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 9 x 13-inch baking pan with foil and lightly spray with nonstick cooking spray.
2. In a large mixing bowl, mix all three ingredients until combined. Pour into prepared pan and smooth top. Bake for 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Drizzle with caramel glaze if desired. Serve.

I'm going to admit I was a little disappointed in this cake. Not in how easy it was to make because it was: cake mix, 3 large eggs and a can of pie filling. Mix together, pour into pan and bake. Drizzle with caramel topping if desired (I desired) and you have an easy snack cake.

The flavor was fine as you can hardly go wrong with caramel apple cake. My disappointment was in the texture. It was a little too "airy" for me as you can tell by the large air pockets/holes in the inside pictures.

The pictures from Cooktop Cove looked to be a more dense yet still soft crumb. This was mostly airy pockets. Still tasted good but you can tell it's from a cake mix. At least I could. And no, I didn't mix it too much either as I actually had to give a couple of manual stirs to incorporate all the cake mix into the batter after I mixed it with a paddle attachment for less than a minute.

Oh well, tried something new, got to serve it at a financial literacy class I gave at my house for a few local people and they seemed to enjoy it so all was not lost.