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The question this week is :
- What is your favorite food/best recipe??
and this is “one” of my favorite recipes.
Actually, it is my own recipe!
or not including it at all,
I measure out all the ingredients
before combining them.
This is one of my scrumptious,
delicious,
yummy
yellow cake recipes.
It is a “coarse” and “heavy” cake and especially delicious
soaked with fresh fruit instead of iced with chocolate.
I only iced this one piece of cake for the blog
and to make make icing since Alyssa
likes to eat plain icing without cake.
The rest of the cake was turned into
my great grandmother’s recipe
which I will show you in a future post.
The Redhead Riter’s
Yellow Cake #1
Ingredients:
1 teaspoon salt
A heaping 1/4 cup vanilla instant pudding
3-1/4 cups all purpose flour
2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1/4 (plus a tad) cup milk at room temperature
all in the same measuring cup
In a mixer add the sugar,
salt,
vanilla instant pudding.
Mix completely.
beat with with an electric mixer
on a low speed
for about a minute.
until the mixture resembles coarse sand.
prepare a 9 x 13 cake pan.
My pan isn’t dark or glass.
Rub a small amount
of butter all over the pan
with a paper towel
making sure that
all surfaces of the inside of the
pan are covered.
Add a handful of flour.
all the butter is coated
with flour.
Throw away the excess flour.
to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Beautiful mixture so far isn’t it?
I’m sure it tastes better than coarse sand too.
and the sour cream
while the mixer is on low.
Mix for 30 seconds.
Beat for 30 seconds.
Increase to a medium speed and
beat for 30 more seconds.
Beat for 30 seconds on low.
Increase to a medium speed and
beat for 30 more seconds.
Beat for 30 seconds.
Increase to a medium speed and
beat for 30 more seconds.
Then do the same thing
to the fourth and final egg.
Scrape the sides.
Mix for 20 seconds
on high.
Just 20 seconds
and that is all.
The mixer is getting tired.
It looks so fluffy.
too good or you won’t be able
to have a bite to eat.
in the middle of the oven.
That means that the rack
should be in the middle of the oven
and the pan should be in the middle of the rack.
Clean the mixing bowls,
spoons, spatula and measuring cups.
Wipe the counter.
I know that most people test for doneness with a toothpick,
but I use a very sharp knife.
The hole it leaves doesn’t matter
because it is covered with icing anyway.
The cake should be brown and
it will have pulled away from the edge of the pan
a little tiny bit.
Remove the cake from the pan and
cool on cake racks.
Tip:
After the cake is cooled,
you can put the cake back
into the same baking pan.
Some baking pans have nice lids.
We prefer to ice the cake one piece at a time
since some people like more icing than others,
so I put the cake back into the pan
and cover tightly with aluminum foil
because I don’t have a nifty lid
for my baking pan.
I’ll give you one guess
to figure out who likes the most icing.
the chocolate frosting,
however, I do not have any
measurements because I make
the frosting by looks,
feel and taste.
Ingredients and Directions:
Shake a can of evaporated milk vigorously
and open it.
If you shook it enough,
you will see pretty little bubbles.
In a mixing bowl,
add powdered sugar,
Hershey’s cocoa,
and a dash of salt.
are well incorporated.
If you want your butter to soften
faster, cut it up into slices.
Another Tip:
Never,
Never,
Never,
Ever,
put the butter in the microwave
or set it on top of the hot oven.
Did you get that Alyssa?
Never.
Never.
Period.
begin to slowly add the evaporated milk.
Mix on low.
If it looks dry,
add more milk.
I ended up using 1/2 the can.
and before you mix it into fluff,
taste it.
If you need to add more cocoa,
now is the time.
Just don’t forget to keep the mixer
on low or you will
have a mess like me.
I created a chocolate cloud,
but that isn’t bad.
Imagine a world filled
with chocolate clouds.
Yummmmm.
when you have finished making the icing.
You can put the icing in an air tight container
until ready to use.
If you like hot cake,
cut and ice a piece for yourself.
Smell the combination of
vanilla and chocolate.
Take a mental picture
so that the next time you become ill,
you can recall the memory.
Now eat it
s-l-o-w-l-y.
Let the smooth chocolate frosting
coat your mouth.
It is really quite a dilemma sometimes.
*****?*****
Did you know that life is like
a yellow cake with chocolate frosting?
New experiences are added to our lives
and get mixed with the old experiences
helping us grow and progress.
We fluff up with knowledge.
If we keep life in balance,
in the end,
we will have created
and lived
a beautiful life.
Licking my plate clean and leaving no crumbs,
Now it is your turn to answer the Tell The Truth Thursday question. Enter the post URL that answers the question in the Linky below and have fun checking out everyone’s answers…
Looks delicious! I think I would prefer it with the mixed berries or some other fruit, but a little chocolate frosting never hurt anyone!
Looking Delicious….
I really like this dish……
Thanks for share………
I have answered your question here:
http://hopeloveandspeedskates.blogspot.com/
It's like you have read my mind. I have been craving cake for the past 2 days.
Thanks for the recipe. Looks delicious.
That looks fantastic. I can't wait to try it. 🙂
Good heavens- I'm licking the computer screen.
Okay, vanilla pudding, sour cream, butter and buttermilk? I'm in! YUM!
DROOOOOL! Yes, Please! When can I come over?
I enjoyed this exercise and wrote about a very popular African dish that many eat on special occasions…
Best,
Elizabeth
That looks so yummy! At this point in my pregnancy, I'm a box of brownie mix kind of gal. I can be more creative when I want to be!
That cake looks so yummy!! I think I have to try this!! Thanks for SHARING!! ;D
Hi,
Could you tell me how to print out your recipes? I have looked all over the page, but can’t find a link!! Love all your recipes and will be trying the cream puffs today. My mouth is watering just thinking about them!! Thanks so much.
Your friend in cooking,
Diane
I’m glad you like the recipes! Thank you very much!!!
I don’t have an app connected to print out the recipes. I guess I should probably look into what is available. You can copy and paste the recipes at the bottom of the post and throw throw them into a Word doc. Hope that helps!