Recipes

[Nightowlz]

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@KingstonsMom wrote:

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@wagirl wrote:

Never really understood what Red Velvet cake is--I know there is alot of red food coloring in it but it really has no taste of its own, does it? I know it has cream cheese frosting too. Just wondering.

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@wagirl

It's actually a chocolate cake.

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@KingstonsMom @wagirl

I made the Wistoria Hotel Red Velvet Cake recipe you posted one time. It was good but a tad on the dry side.

I'm sure the Cream Cheese Frosting is what makes the cake for me.

DH made the Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Cake recipe I posted for my birthday. It has to be the best cake I ever ate.

[Mom2Dogs]

@ECBG.....I love pound cake.....I don't make it often.  My mom had a good recipe that I make on occasion.  I enjoy it with a good cup of coffee.  DH and I are real sweet eaters...out guilty pleasure...he is a chocoholic.

I think what makes the red cake so good is the frosting.

[ECBG]

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@Mom2Dogs wrote:

@ECBG.....I love pound cake.....I don't make it often.  My mom had a good recipe that I make on occasion.  I enjoy it with a good cup of coffee.  DH and I are real sweet eaters...out guilty pleasure...he is a chocoholic.

I think what makes the red cake so good is the frosting.

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@Mom2DogsTotally agree about cream cheese frosting.  Is it not one of (if not) THE best ever?  

I do eat pound cake now, if it's moist.  I LOVE vanilla.

I have a recipie for a killer chocolate poundcake.

[colliemom4]

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@Nightowlz wrote:

I know you said she likes Red Velvet but Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Cake has to be the best cake I have ever ate.

I emailed the recipe to DH so he could make it for my birthday which he did. It was so yummy.

Hershey’s Perfectly Chocolate Cake

• 2 cups sugar
• 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
• 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup boiling water
• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans.
• Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.
• Frost with "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" CHOCOLATE FROSTING. Makes 12 servings.

VARIATIONS:

ONE-PAN CAKE: Grease and flour 13 x 9 x 2 baking pan. Heat oven to 350° F. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 35 to 40 minutes. Cool completely. Frost.

THREE LAYER CAKE: Grease and flour three 8-inch round baking pans. Heat oven to 350°F. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake 30 to 35 minutes. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely. Frost.

BUNDT CAKE: Grease and flour 12-cup fluted tube pan. Heat oven to 350°F. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 50 to 55 minutes. Cool 15 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely. Frost.

CUPCAKES: Line muffin cups (2-1/2 inches in diameter) with paper bake cups. Heat oven to 350°F. Fill cups 2/3 full with batter. Bake 22 to 25 minutes. Cool completely. Frost. About 30 cupcakes.

• "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" CHOCOLATE FROSTING”
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
• 2/3 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Melt butter. Stir in cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency.
• Add small amount additional milk, if needed. Stir in vanilla. About 2 cups frosting.

 @Nightowlz  This is an excellent cake. A co-worker I had used to make one yearly for Christmas parties.

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[mustang66lady]

@turquoise blue

We are more a "pie" family  so my collection of cake recipes isn't  very big.  That said, when I do want or need a cake recipe, I have to echo @RespectLife's suggestion to visit the Life, Love and Sugar blog.  She has wonderful recipes and often tutorials on how to decorate.  Grab a beverage of choice and give her blog a look see this evening.  You might find yourself having a difficult time trying to decide if you really might want to make that red velvet or another of her wonderful creations!   Have fun no matter what you end up making; sounds like your DIL has good taste in picking Mother in Laws!   

[aroc3435]

@Nightowlz  @colliemom4  Another thumbs up from me for the Hershey's chocolate cake.  I love chocolate cake and I love that the recipe is right there on the package.  In case they ever remove it from there I copied it out longhand for my recipe file.

One Christmas I made it for Christmas day dessert and pressed crystalized ginger around the sides of it.  It was just heavenly.  Never saw a cake disappear so fast and the family had quite an array of desserts that year.

[my cucina]

@walker I would love that lemon filled buttercream cake recipe. That is my all time fav. Thank you!!!

[jannabelle1]

For 18 years, my mother made me a homemade Cherry Cake for my birthday. What made it special was that it was a 2-layer cake made in heart-shaped pans. She made that cake with love every year and topped it with a 7-minute frosting. Wonderful memories of my birthday cake shaped in a heart!

[Drythe]

Have really enjoyed this thread.  Printed out all the recipes.

Can’t wait to start baking.

Thanks

[walker]

my cucina ..... this is recipe my mother wrote for me with note....."from Better Homes and Garden Cookbook, 1945".... so good!  Memories even better!

Delicate White Cake

2/3 cup butter

2 cups sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 cups cake flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 cup water

4 stiffly beaten egg whites + 1 teaspoon baking powder

Thoroughly cream butter and sugar.  Add vanilla, sifted flour, salt and 2 teaspoons of baking powder alternately with water...beating well after each addition.  Fold in egg whites beaten with remaining 1 teaspoon of baking powder.  Bake in two 9" cake pans..30 minutes at 350.  

Cool cake.  Mix lemon pie filling and put between layers. 

Frosting....Butter Cream

1 cup granulated sugar

1 cup milk

Bring above to a boil and set aside to cool.

Beat 1 egg white stiff....pour milk mixture in it and stir well.

Beat until fluffy....

1/4 lb. butter

1/2 cup Crisco

Pour milk mixture into butter mixture slowly...beat until it is fluffy.  If desired, add 1 teaspoon of vanilla.