Your favorite cake? Carrot,Chocolate, Italian Creme?
My favorite cake has to be the one my Aunt Lola used to make. A Rich chocolate icing with a hint of coffee extra vanilla and some secret addition . I have never been able to duplicate it. ..but can still remember Sunday lunch's around the dining room table. I tried to feed Pepe (Our black retreiver) my roast chicken so that I could leave as much room as possible for dessert... ...Those days still linger in my memory as wonderful EMPTY BOTTLE MOMENTS around the chocolate cake, or was it just the fact that the family was together and the chocolate cake added some Lagianppe to the moment......Turning ordinary moments into extraordinary memories.
Food and Family .............They go together! Not thru the drive-thru, but together, around a table
What is your favorite cake?
I may show up at your doorstep cake in hand!!!!
clive@cookingwithclive.com
clive@cookingwithclive.com
DANAS CARROT CAKE (recently named after Dana Tyson of Sunny 99.1 Houston)
INGREDIENTS:
4 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
INGREDIENTS:
4 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup melted butter
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon (High quality)
3 cups grated carrots
1 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup butter, softened
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
3 cups confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon (High quality)
3 cups grated carrots
1 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup butter, softened
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
3 cups confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans
DIRECTIONS:
1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F Grease and flour 2 8inch cake pans.
2.Beat together eggs, oil, white sugar and 2 teaspoons vanilla.
1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F Grease and flour 2 8inch cake pans.
2.Beat together eggs, oil, white sugar and 2 teaspoons vanilla.
3.Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
4.Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour into prepared pan.
5.Bake in the preheated oven for 35-45 minutes. (Use the toothpick method) make sure you turn the pans after 20 minutes.
4.Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour into prepared pan.
5.Bake in the preheated oven for 35-45 minutes. (Use the toothpick method) make sure you turn the pans after 20 minutes.
6. Turn onto baking rack and cover with a lightly (very) damp cloth and cool completely.
Frosting: Combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla.Mix until the mixture is smooth and creamy.
Slice each round in half (horizontally)Lightly frost between each layer.....
Cover surface with frosting and decotrate with toasted chopped pecans and some freshly grated carrots.
posted by Clive at
7:43 PM
2 Comments:
Great recipe! Thanks! I enjoyed having a grandmother who loved to bake cakes. One day I drove in from Orange and spent the whole day with her to learn how to bake a carrot cake like hers. She said, "Shearie, people always ask me why my cakes are so good when they use the same recipe and get different results. I have a special ingredient. It's prayer. I pray before I bake my cake." Zig
My mother's favorite cake is Italian Cream Cake. She made many cakes for family and friends. She turned 90 in October and I made her the same cake. My brother, sister and I were all there to celebrate this important date. She loved the cake, too. Jan
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