Best Cake Recipes

[rcyannacci]

So, I was eating cake last night while on the CB and posted about how much I liked it. So I thought I might ask about everyone's favorite cake recipes. What are your favorites? What gets a big reaction everytime you bake it?

Here's my recipe for Italian Cream Cake that I'll post again. It's the best cake ever!!! It gets a few more bowls dirty with the whole separating eggs step (you can see where my priorities lie), but it's absolutely worth it! Even my DH eats this cake, and he's not one for sweets (I know, unthinkable, right?)

Italian Cream Cake:

2 c. sugar
1 stick butter
1/2 c. shortning
5 eggs, separated
1 c. butter milk (can use regular whole milk with a T. of white vinegar, let set and stir)
2 c. sifted flour
1 t. baking soda
1 c. walnuts, chopped
1 small can of flaked coconut

Grease and flour pans, and preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream the sugar, butter, and shortning. Beat the egg yolks, then add to the cream mixture. Add flour and soda, mix. Add nuts, milk, and coconut. In a separate bowl, beat egg whites stiff, and then fold into cake mixture.

Bake at 350 degrees for 45 imnutes to 1 hour (check with a toothpick that emerges clean from the center.)

Cream Cheese Frosting:
8 oz. cream cheese
1 box powdered sugar
1 stick butter
1 t. vanilla

Mix until creamy. Frost cake only when cooled.

 

[arminnie]

My mother and my aunts (five sisters in all) came to visit me in Houston for my 33rd birthday, and my mother made that cake for me for my birthday party.

Italian cream cake brings back good memories.

When we had a huge party for their 50th wedding anniversary the wedding cake was an Italian cream cake - although not as good as my mother's.

I lost my mother to breast cancer 6 years ago, and your post made me smile.

 

[RumpleMom]

We just had spice cake with maple icing. Yummy! This is what the kids request for their birthday cake.

 

[di17090]

does that sound good. I'm going to copy this recipe to try when I have a few days off of work.

Rcyannacci, thanks so much for sharing.

Arminnnie...so sorry about your Mother. I battled breast cancer last year. But, thankfully I "BEAT IT". I know what you went through. It's great to have those little things that bring back the wonderful memories. And I have to ask, is that you with George?

Di

 

[arminnie]

In keeping with the original request I am going to add a recipe:

Cake - Chocolate Sheet
2 c flour
1/2 c buttermilk (or add lemon juice or vinegar to reg milk to sour the milk)
2 c sugar
2 eggs, unbeaten
1 stick butter
1 t soda
1/2 c oil or shortening
1 t vanilla
1 c water
3 1/2 T cocoa

1) Bring butter, oil, water and cocoa to boil
2) Pour over flour and sugar mixture.
3) Mix buttermilk, eggs, soda, & vanilla and add to choc. mixture.

Bake at 400 for 20 min in a rimmed cookie sheet or 350 for 35 min in 13x9 pan.

Frosting - Fudge

1/2 c margarine
3 1/2 T cocoa
1/3 c milk
1 box powdered sugar
1 t vanilla

Bring margarine, cocoa & milk to boil. Add sugar and vanilla. Beat well. Pour over hot chocolate sheet cake.

This frosting is very good on brownies also- it's sort of like fudge.

Glad to hear you beat breast cancer di7090! (and yes that is me with George last November)

 

[rcyannacci]

arminnie, glad we could exchange recipes. Sorry to hear about your mother, but glad to bring a smile to your face. Ahhh, the miracle of cake!!! I had my own cancer scare last year and had to go through 6 weeks of radiation to my neck. I lost most of my taste, but it's slowly come back. One of the last things to come back was chocolate...which I've now been craving bunches. So your cake should hit the spot!!!

 

[piratesmate]

I have 3 that I still make. There was a chocolate chip cake from the Betty Crocker Cookbook that I used to make that was really good, but it's kind of labor intensive. I gave up making that one when I had kids.

Clyde’s Chocolate Cake
1½ c water
¾ c shortening
¾ c cocoa
3 c flour
3 c sugar
2¼ tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3 eggs
¾ c sour milk
1½ tsp vanilla
Cook water, shortening & cocoa until butter melts. Add flour, sugar, soda & salt. Beat 2 minutes. Add eggs & beat 2 more minutes. Add milk & vanilla; beat 2 minutes. Grease a 13x9 pan & dust with cocoa. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Ice with Cooked Icing.

Cooked Icing
3 Tbl flour
¾ c milk
¾ c butter
¾ c sugar
¾ tsp vanilla
Cook together flour & milk. Stir constantly until thick. Cool. Add butter & beat 4 minutes. Add sugar & beat 4 more minutes. Add vanilla & flour mixture; beat until smooth. Refrigerate until spreadable.

This is my grandmother's recipe. It always makes me think of her. Absolutely wonderful if you aren't diabetic! The caramel icing makes it extra good - but it's like coating the cake with candy almost!

Applesauce Cake - Eggless
2 tsp baking soda
1½ Tbl water
2½ c applesauce
½ tsp nutmeg
1 Tbl cinnamon
¼ tsp cloves, ground
1 c sugar
4 c flour
1 c shortening
1 c raisins, rinsed
1 c walnuts (opt)
Dissolve baking soda in water. Combine all ingredients except raisins & nuts. Mix until well moistened. Stir in raisins & nuts. Bake at 350 for 45 to 60 minutes in greased & floured pan. (two 9x9 or a 13x9) Top with Caramel Icing or Cool Whip.

Caramel Icing
1 Tbl butter
5 Tbl milk
2 c brown sugar
1 Tbl vanilla
Combine all ingredients in a saucepan & stir until sugar dissolves. Cook syrup for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Cool until you can hold your hand on the bottom of the pan. Beat 2 minutes & spread on a reasonably cooled cake.

Jewish Apple Cake
3 - 5 apples, sliced
5 Tbl sugar
2 Tbl cinnamon
3 c flour
2 c sugar
1 c oil
4 eggs
1/3 c orange juice
2½ tsp vanilla
3 tsp baking powder

Peel & slice apples. Mix 5 tablespoons sugar & cinnamon; set aside. Beat remaining ingredients until smooth. Pour half batter in greased tube pan. Arrange half apples on top & sprinkle with half cinnamon mixture. Pour rest of batter into pan, add apples & top with remaining cinnamon mixture. Bake at 350 about 1½ hours.

 

[dad'ngirls]

Hi,

One of my favorite cake recipes is one I got at a Pampered Chef party.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

Start with your favorite box chocolate cake mix.

Mix the batter according to box instructions.

Pour half the batter into a bundt pan.

Place nine full size Reeses peanut butter cups on top of the batter in a circle.

Pour the rest of the batter into the pan.

Bake cake according to box instructions.

Once the cake has cooled, invert it onto serving platter.

Drizzle 1 cup of melted smooth peanut butter over it. Let cool a little

Once peanut butter is just about cooled, drizzle 1/2 cup of melted chocolate over it.

Chop up some peanuts and sprinkle them over the chocolate.

Voila!

It's very yummy and addicting !



Sue

 

[FantasticDisFamily]

Thanks for the ideas everyone! I have a cupboard full of recipe books but love collecting new ideas.

DH & Kids LOVE cake...well I do too but try to stay away from it for health reasons although I do splurge with a small piece now and again.

Last weekend the Food Network ran a show called the Great Cake Off or something like that and they had some REALLY unusual cakes on that. And this thread reminded me I wanted to go print off the S'mores Cake recipe.

Just went to the other site and gee golly gosh but they didn't have that one. They did have the My Lumpy Life cake which was a pretty amusing looking entry.

Deb

 

[rcyannacci]

Originally posted by FantasticDisFamily

Last weekend the Food Network ran a show called the Great Cake Off or something like that and they had some REALLY unusual cakes on that. And this thread reminded me I wanted to go print off the S'mores Cake recipe.

Just went to the other site and gee golly gosh but they didn't have that one. They did have the My Lumpy Life cake which was a pretty amusing looking entry.

Deb

I caught the last 10 minutes of that program and the cake that won looked really good! Too bad it isn't listed on the site.

 

[MicMin]

I saw that show too. I would have liked to have been one of the judges. The winning cake did look very good.

Here is a cheesescake recipe that always turns out great.

Jim's Cheesecake

crust
1 pack graham crackers - crushed
1 stick melted butter
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup pecans
Mix and press into spring form pan.

Filling
3 8 ounce packs of cream cheese
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Mix and pour over crust. Bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes.
Spread 16 ozs sour cream over filling and bake 5 minutes.

 

[Annie&Hallie'sMom]

THANK YOU Piratesmate for the EGGLESS recipe! I am always looking!

 

[piratesmate]

Originally posted by Annie&Hallie'sMom
THANK YOU Piratesmate for the EGGLESS recipe! I am always looking!

I'm glad you can use it! I'd forgotten that it doesn't call for eggs. Maybe I should add that to the title...

I wish I could still eat the icing, but no matter how I adjust things now it's way too sweet. As kids we used to sneak into the kitchen & pick of bits of the icing.

 

[arminnie]

INGREDIENTS:
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups white sugar
6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
2/3 cup vegetable oil
2 cups water
2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

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DIRECTIONS:
In a large bowl, combine all the dry ingredients together.
Combine all the wet ingredients together in another bowl.
Pour the liquid ingredients all at once into the dry ingredients, and beat until smooth.
Pour batter into a greased 9 x 13 inch pan.
Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven for 20-25 minutes. Let cool in pan. When cool sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.

 

[Annie&Hallie'sMom]

Thank you arminnie! You guys are great...maybe I'm going to have to start a new post for eggless recipes since you've been so kind to give me two new ones!