Sugar Free Lemon Bundit and How NOT to Make Cobbler

The typo for bundt (as in bundt cake) is there on purpose :). I kept calling it bundit cake when my mom made it lol. But yeah, my mom can't have that much sugar and carbs for a while so she decided to make a cake from a sugar free yellow cake mix. +/-

It doesn't look that much different from a regular yellow cake mix:

It was pretty cool to know that they actually make sugar free cake mixes, lol. And the bundt cake pan looks interesting as well:

While that was baking, mom wanted a lemon glaze. But the one in the original recipe has a lot of sugar! So that would kinda defeat the purpose of having a sugar free cake lol. We managed to come up with an alternate glaze using Splenda, lemon juice and some butter:

She liked it :). So once the cake came out, we poured that over it. The cake tastes great for it being sugar free!

So the next day, I decided to try out a fruit cobbler instead of the usual cakes and stuff (since we were running low on butter; cupcakes and frosting take up 2-3 bars each time!). We had a container of blackberries sitting in the fridge and I've made pie like things before, so I figured it wouldn't be that hard. I looked online for blackberry cobbler recipes and they all had some different way of doing it and either I didn't have enough berries (I didn't measure them either though :/), the cake topping would take way too long or it just didn't sound like it would be very flavorful. So I kinda took different recipes and mixed them together with my own "knowledge" of baking lol. I first put the berries in the bowl and put sugar in it. Then I took the sugar out (rinsed the berries off and cleaned the bowl actually) and did Splenda instead so my mom could taste it if she wanted too without it being 100g of carbs or something.

Bad idea. I didn't put enough Splenda in to make it sweet enough. Then I got the great idea of adding that black raspberry jam to the mix to give it more flavor.

After doing that, I followed another recipe for the crust/topping.

Not bad looking I guess, but I really should have tasted everything before putting it together. That would have helped A LOT >.< . To add to the fail, I added a bit more baking powder to the batter so it could rise as I added the jam and I wasn't sure if that was going to make it difficult for the batter to rise to the top. But I forgot that baking powder adds even more salt to the mixture! Then most of the recipes said to put the batter in first, then the berry mixture, so I did just that:

And it went in the oven for about 40-50 minutes. It looks kinda harmless:

It's kind of hard to see, but blackberries are at the bottom. So I tasted a little, and it was not up to par. AT ALL. My mom tasted it and her facial expression was priceless haha. I ate some more, and the more I kept eating, the worse it tasted! The berries weren't sweet at all and the crust was really salty (and undercooked a bit). So that got scrapped. Lesson learned (that my mom always told me too): always follow one recipe exactly the first time and experiment later! At least now I know why we follow recipes first. You don't learn if you don't make mistakes I guess :).