Italian Sausage Soup Not a review at this point. Just would like to know what one serving is in measurement. I cook law cal soups only, and tho' 230 cals don't seem too bad, it depends how much one serving is. Anyone know? Thanks

Train Cake Wow! I made this cake for my grandson's 2nd birthday party on June l8 (made it the l7th), 2010. Again, I have to wonder, just like the watermelon cake I made for the 4th of July, does anyone else have trouble with the lightness of using the cake mix vs. scratch? It was difficult due to extensive crumbing, even after freezing the cake. But, it was worth the hard work, in the end, not perfect as I push myself to do, but was a great hit at the party. Others thought his parent's bought the cake. And you should have seen him and his 3 year-old brother, standing in front of it, eyes aglow, smiles galore, then after singing HAPPY BIRTHDAY, their parents allowed them to DIG IN! They are not usually allowed candy, so all the decorative candies were a real treat to them. During the whole preamble, he kept saying CHOO-CHOO! They are both into Thomas, that's why I made the train cake. However, I didn't know in advance that the theme was MICKEY MOUSE, so we put little mickey mouse on toothpicks in the train. Since this was a centerpiece and couldn't accomodate all the people at the party, I'd also made the ICE CREAM CONE CUPCAKES, which neither I, nor the parents, had ever heard of. What a hit, a less messy way to eat cupcakes. I AM GETTING VERY ADEPT AT THIS BISQUICK/BETTY CROCKER WEBSITE AND ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. I told my daughter-in-law, next birthday, I'd show her all 60 of the theme cakes, and let her pick which one she wants me to do. I AM RELIVING MEMORIES OF MY KIDS THAT I DID THIS FOR BY DOING SO FOR MY GRANDKIDS ------------ AND LOVING IT EVERY MINUTE>

Watermelon Cake It's the 4th of July and am making this cake to celebrate. I know that cake mixes are "lighter" than from-scratch cakes, but after the required 10 minutes of cooling, I took them out of the pans (gently) and they broke - I was holding them low to the cooling rack but was unable to hold it safely. I can only guess it's because it's so light. The recipe says the batter will be lumpy, but it wasn't. I've been baking since I was 13 (I'm 69 now) and know what I'm doing, but I usually bake from scratch, but since I joined BC for recipes, thought I'd give it a whirl and use the mix. I was so excited, my grandkids are gone and I was going to surprise them. Oh well, I will salvage as best I can, but the cakes are very hard to handle. Is it possible, NO NOT ME, that I did something wrong? All the reviews were great. I even tried dusting the mini chips with flour like advised, but they still sunk to the bottom. Oh well, I hope the train birthday cake I'm going to try comes out better. Has anyone else had this problem?