Showing posts with label cakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cakes. Show all posts

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Easy Coffee Cake

Cut Rhodes frozen bread loaves into 10 or 12 pieces (2 loaves or 24 rolls put in pieces in 9x13 inch pan or bundt pan greased

Mix:
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup soft butter
1 small package vanilla pudding, dry (regular)
1 Tablespoon vanilla
1 Tablespoon cinnamon
Sprinkle 3/4 of this on bottom of pan.
Lay pecans here and there and place slices of dough over that
Add remaining topping over the dough

set in refrigerator overnight before baking, if possible

if not, let stand at least 10 minutes

Bake 350 degrees for 25 minutes

Turn out on a cookie sheet

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Cream Sponge Cake

3 egg yolks, beaten
add 1 cup sugar and beat again
sift 1 1/2 cups flour, pinch of salt, and 1 teaspoon baking powder about four times
Add 1/2 cup boiling water before adding flour
Vanilla
fold in 3 egg whites

Do not grease pan
Turn pan upside down when done

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Blueberry Cake

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
(cream butter and sugar together)
Add
2 eggs, well-beaten
1/2 cup light cream
1/4 tsp nutmeg
2 cups flour, sifted
2 tsp baking powder
pinch salt
Mix all above ingredients together

1 1/4 cups blueberries dusted with 2 Tablespoons flour

Fold into cake mixture very gently

Pour into an 8x12 inch pan. Dust the top with 1/4 cup sugar and a little nutmeg

Bake 25 minutes at 350 degrees

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Date Cake

1/4 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup boiling water
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup dates (20)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder

Sprinkle soda over the dates. Add boiling water and cool.

Bake 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Bake in a 9x9 pan.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Sponge Cake

5 eggs separated
beat yolks and add:
1 2/3 cups sugar
3/4 cup hot water
  Sift and add after sifting:
     1 2/3 cups flour
     1 2/3 teaspoons baking powder
add beaten egg whites last

Friday, November 30, 2012

Spice Cake

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Grandmother's Pound Cake

[on cut out piece of Crystal Foods, inc. styrofoam grade HH large egg carton]

1 cup butter
1 2/3 cups sugar
5 eggs
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon flavoring (vanilla, almond, rum, etc.)

Work butter until creamy; beat in sugar and eggs, one at a time.
When creamy fold in flour with spoon. Spread in buttered and floured loaf pan.
Bake 1 1/2 hours at 300 degrees

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Pound Cake Dessert

Ingredients:
1 package yellow or white cake mix
1 package pudding (instant cream kind; strawberry cream is real good)
1 cup water
4 eggs unbeaten

Directions:
Beat together for 8 minutes. Bake for 350 degrees in an angel's food cake pan for 50 minutes.

* If you use lemon pudding, serve with lemon sauce.
* If you use chocolate pudding it makes German chocolate cake. Frost with German chocolate frosting.

Cool 25 minutes. Remove from pan and glaze.

Glaze
Blend 1 c confectioner's sugar with either 2 Tablespoons milk or 2 Tablespoons lemon juices. Drizzle over cake.

Spice cake with butterscotch pudding.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Brownie Top-Side-Down Cake


Ingredients:


1 c brown sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
2 c water
1 c chopped nuts
12 quartered marshmallows
1 package devil's food cake mix, white cake better


Directions:

  • Arrange marshmallows and nuts in bottom of a greased 9"x13"baking pan.
  • Combine sugar, cocoa, and water. Pour over nuts and marshmallows.
  • Prepare cake mix and pour over mixture
  • Bake 45-50 minutes
  • 350 degrees
  • Cut into squares. Serve warm or cold with whipped cream or ice cream.