Your favorite cake?

[BamaLuver]

My Mom made me think about this tonight. She's decided she'll whip up a coconut cake and drop it by the doctor's office this week (she's recouping from shoulder surgery). She said they've been so good to her -- and while she's at it, she'll also make one for that "sweet little therapist" who's been working with her for the past two weeks!

Anyway ... she make's a wonderful coconut cake. It practically melts in your mouth!

Anyone else have a fav?

 

[runtheoption22]

if Mississippi Mud qualifies as a cake, then it gets my vote!

 

[Nate Harris]

"I wanna be the girl with the most cake"

 

[TideBeliever]

If your a chocolate freak like me.

Frosting:
8-oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup softened butter
1 tsp. vanilla
8 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup hot water
12 oz. semisweet chocolate, melted


Cake:
2 cups frosting
1/4 cup softened butter
3 eggs
2 cups flour
1-1/2 tsp. baking soda
3/4 cup milk


Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 2 9" layer cake pans and dust with cocoa powder; set aside. In a large bowl, combine cream cheese and butter and beat with mixer until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and 2 cups of powdered sugar and beat well. Add 1/3 of the hot water and beat. Repeat, adding sugar and water alternately. Then beat in melted chocolate. Measure 2 cups of this frosting for the cake batter. Cover the rest of the frosting tightly with foil and set aside.

For cake, in another large bowl, combine 2 cups frosting with 1/4 cup butter and beat well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour, baking soda, and milk to the batter and beat until smooth and well blended. Pour batter into prepared cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 30-40 minutes until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes; remove cakes from pans and cool completely on wire racks.

Fill and frost cooled cake layers with reserved frosting. You may need to thin the frosting out a bit with 1-2 Tbsp. of milk for the desired spreading consistency. Store cake in refrigerator.

 

[LadyinRed]

If your a chocolate freak like me.

Yummy, thanks for sharing!!!

 

[TommyMac]

Carrot cake. My Mom usually put some kind of walnut icing on it, it'd make a bulldog break his chain.

 

[U-A]

Fudge Cake

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2 1/4 cup sifted flour
1 1/2 cup sugar

1 t. soda

1 t. baking powder

a pinch of salt

1/2 cup shortening

1/2 cup cocoa

2 eggs

1 cup sour milk (or use sweet milk with a little lemon juice)

1 t. vanilla

1/3 cup hot water



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Heat oven to 350
Prepare pans (grease and flour 2 pans)

Sift together flour, baking powder, soda and salt. Set aside.

Cream shortening, add sugar gradually beating after each addition.

Add vanilla and eggs beating after each add until light and fluffy.

Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk.

Mix cocoa and hot water until forms smooth paste, beat into batter.

Pour into two pans.

Bake for 30 to 35 minutes.

Cool

Use any chocolate icing.

 

[FAYETTE4BAMA]

I had some plain old pound cake w/ peaches

Sunday and it was great. Strawberries work well also. I think pound cake is my favorite b/c of the versatility.

 

[bayoutider]

My favorite has always been a Red Velvet Cake with a fluffy Seven Minute frosting.

A quick story on Seven Minute Frosting. When I first tried to make this to frost my first Red Velvet cake made from my hands I had no problem. It came out beautiful. I was so proud of myself. I frosted the cake, cut myself a slice and sat back to enjoy. I had the cake in a glass dome cake saver. Throughout the day I cut myself a couple more slices, I did mention I love Red Velvet cake. The next morning I got up and as I passed by the cake I saw the most horrible thing. All the frosting had melted. There was just a few shards of the frosting clinging to the cake. I had no idea what went wrong.

I made another cake and the same thing happened, then a third and again, the same thing happened. So, I started doing a diligent search to find a cure. Finally I found out what was making the frosting melt. No air circulation. The simple addition of a couple of round toothpicks under the glass dome fixed everything and I had cake and frosting for more than a day.

 

[FitToBeTide]

Anybody

had Butternut Cake? Unbelieveable. My fav. Not even close to my South Beach allowed foods, not in the same universe, it' s that good, IMO.

:biga2:

 

[BamaLuver]

Petits Fours....

These little babies (petits fours) run a close second to my Mom 's cakes. And the best in Mobile can be found at Pollman's Bakery! Yummm....

 

[BamaLuver]

Bayou -- that story was too funny! Bet the look on your face as you passed through the kitchen was one of bewilderment wasn't it? :biggrin:

 

[ga_tide_fan]

Hummingbird Cake ...

3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 eggs -- well beaten
1 1/4 cups salad oil
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 can (8oz) crushed pineapple -- drained
3/4 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup chopped black walnuts
2 cups chopped banana
Cream Cheese Frosting:
2 packages cream cheese -- (8oz each), softened
1 cup butter -- room temperature
2 boxes powdered sugar -- (16oz each)
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and cinnamon together several times. Put into mixing bowl. Add eggs and salad oil. Stir until dry ingredients are moistened. Do not beat with a mixer. Stir in vanilla, pineapple and both nuts. Finally add the bananas. Spoon the batter into 3 well-greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until cake tests done. Cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn onto cooling rack. Cool completely before frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting:
Combine cream cheese and butter; cream until smooth. Add powdered sugar, beating with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Stir in vanilla.

Frost the tops of all 3 layers, stack and then frost edges. Carefully draw a circle on the layer with a toothpick and fill in that circle with the chopped pecans.



The first time I made this cake I told my daughters that it was made from real Hummingbirds from the yard. I played it up that they were not too hard to catch around the feeders and sweetened the cake because of all the sugar water they drank from those feeders... It was a mean joke but I eventually told them the truth. They would not touch that cake though.

 

[bayoutider]

Bayou -- that story was too funny! Bet the look on your face as you passed through the kitchen was one of bewilderment wasn't it? :biggrin:

I thought the kids were licking all the icing off the cake.

I hope my wife doesn't see those Petis Fours, those are her favorites too.

 

[bayoutider]

When I get back home I will post the recipe for a blackberry jam cake with penuche frosting. Also a flourless cocolate torte.

 

[BamaArrived2006]

I'm a strawberry cake person!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! My grandmother and great grandmother make it and I just love it!!!!! Also Bayou my mama's a Red Velvet person but they always but a cream cheese icing on it I'd like it alot better with 7 minute icing because I love that stuff too!!!!!! MmmmMmmmm....7 minute icing.....

:biga2:

 

[bayoutider]

I'm a strawberry cake person!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! My grandmother and great grandmother make it and I just love it!!!!! Also Bayou my mama's a Red Velvet person but they always but a cream cheese icing on it I'd like it alot better with 7 minute icing because I love that stuff too!!!!!! MmmmMmmmm....7 minute icing.....

:biga2:

If you ever get disowned by your family, I might adopt you.

 

[crimsonoldtimer]

German Chocolate has aways been my weakness, but I think I'm going to try and get my wife to do the humingbird cake. It really sounds good!

 

[BamaLuver]

Strawberry Cake

BamaBound, I've never made a strawberry cake, but it sounds delicious. I love to make strawberry shortcake.

Just searched through my "church ladies" cookbook, and this recipe had one of the highest ratings. Wonder if it's similar to your Grandmom's?

Strawberry Cake

Ingredients:

1 package white cake mix
1/2 cup strawberries
1 package strawberry gelatin
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1/2 cup cold water

PREHEAT oven to 350°F, and grease three 8-inch cake pans.

COMBINE all ingredients in a large mixing bowl. BEAT 4 minutes at medium speed, then POUR into pans.

BAKE for 35 minutes or until done. COOL on racks.

Strawberry Icing:

1 box confectioners sugar
1/2 stick butter
1/2 cup strawberries

MIX, then FROST cool cakes.

 

[BamaArrived2006]

So Bayou when can I move in??? :biggrin2:

:biga2: