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Tomorrow (3/7) is the feast of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, and therefore is the name day for 2 of my girls! As part of the celebration, I would love to make a nice cake as a special treat, but I've never made a homemade cake. I was wondering if any of you ladies have a recipe you'd like to share?
Thanks!
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I've not made this, but a friend did and thought it was great.
Pioneer Woman Chocolate Sheet Cake
Combine in a mixing bowl:
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
In a saucepan, melt:
2 sticks butter
Add 4 heaping tablespoons cocoa. Stir together.
Add 1 cup boiling water, allow mixture to boil for 30 seconds, then turn off heat. Pour over flour mixture, and stir lightly to cool.
In measuring cup, pour 1/2 cup buttermilk.
Add:
2 beaten eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
Stir buttermilk mixture into butter/chocolate mixture. Pour into sheet cake pan and bake at 350-degrees for 20 minutes.
While cake is baking, make icing:
Chop 1/2 cup pecans finely.
Melt 1 3/4 sticks butter in a saucepan.
Add 4 heaping tablespoons cocoa, stir to combine, then turn off heat.
Add:
6 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 lb minus 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Stir together.
Add pecans, stir together, and pour over warm cake.
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I just made that this week. it is excellent, and quite easy.
I think I'll have to make it again on Sunday.
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I have made the cake in the above post. The first time it was super yummy, the second time....it wasn't quite as yummy but I was the only one who noticied. I think the second time I did the milk and vinegar method of making buttermilk and the first time I used real buttermilk. It was really, realy good! My kids even ate it with the chopped pecans and they don't like nuts. 
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I like
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HERSHEY'S "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" Chocolate Cake
Ingredients:
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
"PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" CHOCOLATE FROSTING(recipe follows)
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans.
2. 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.
3. 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. 10 to 12 servings.
VARIATIONS:
ONE-PAN CAKE: Grease and flour 13x9x2-inch 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 Bundt 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 stick (1/2 cup) 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.
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or this one was my grandmother's recipe.. very good but different
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Dad's Deviled Dream
CAKE
2 eggs - seperated
1/3c + 1T cocoa
2c milk
4T butter
2 c sugar
2 c flour
2 t baking soda
1/2 t cloves
1) in pan mix beaten egg yokes, cocoa and 1 c milk - over heat stir constantly until thick as heavy cream - add butter and set aside
2) in med bowl - beat egg whiles - add sugar and 1 c milk
3) sift flour, soda and cloves into egg mixture and blend
4) still chocolate mixture and add to egg/flour. Mix well
5) bake in 3 round pans at 375* for 15-20 min.
FROSTING/FILLING
1pt. heavy cream
6 t cocoa
1 1/2 t vanilla
1 1/2 c sugar
stire together and let stand in refrigerator for 1 hour - beat stiff and frost cake
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And I really like this one though it's a Christmas Cake
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Buche de Noel
preheat oven to 375*
need:
towel sprinkled with 1/4-1/2c pwd sugar (from frosting)
2 bowls
waxed paper or bowl for flour
jelly roll pan - greased and lined with parchment
set cube of butter out to soften
Cake:
2/3 c sifted flour
1 t baking pwd
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 c baking cocoa
4 egg yolks
1/4 c sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
4 egg whites
1/2 c sugar
1) sift together flour baking pwd and salt and baking cocoa - set aside
2) beat egg yolk until thick and lemon colored. gradually beat in 1/4 c sugar; add vanilla - set aside
rinse beaters
3) beat egg whites until soft peak form, gradually add 1/2 c sugar and beat until stiff peaks form - fold yolk into whites
4) fold flour mixture into egg mixture
5) spread batter on parchment papered pan 375* for 10-12 minutes
6) immediately loosen sides and turn out on the towel, remove parchment paper, roll from the short end and cool on rack
when cake cools a little cut off 2 half inch strips from end and roll in a spiral - save
Filling:
1/2 pint heavy cream
1/2 c sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
whip heavy cream well, add sugar and whip more, add vanilla and whip until stiff - set aside
Frosting:
1 lb pwd sugar, sifted (minus 1/4-1/2c for dusting towel)
1 cube butter (softened, see above)
5 T milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 square baking chocolate (1oz), melted
cream butter, add sugar and milk alternately, then vanilla and chocolate mixing well bewteen each addition.
unroll cake on plate
spread with whipped cream and re-roll
frost - place spirals on as stumps
glue any cracks with frosting
use fork to make bark and circles on end and stumps
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And here's a white cake
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Janet's White Cake
Here's the one I use for our birthday cakes, cause it holds up well to my weird decorating:
2 1/4 Cup all-purpose flour
1 Tbl baking powder
1/2 Tsp salt
1 2/3 Cup sugar
1/2 Cup butter, softened
1 Cup milk
2 Tsp vanilla
3 egg whites
Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour cake pan(s). Sift flour, baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. Stir in sugar. Add butter, milk and vanilla; beat with an electric mixer on low for 30 seconds. Beat at medium speed for 2 minutes. Add the egg whites and beat 2 more minutes. Pour into prepared pans and bake as listed below, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in the pans 10 minutes. Loosen cake edge from pan, invert on a rack and cool completely.
Baking Times:
1 13x9 inch pan: 35-40 min.
1 10-inch Bundt pan: 45-55 min.
2 9-inch pans: 35-40 min.
2 8-inch squares: 30-35 min.
3 8-inch rounds: 20-25 min.
24 cupcakes: 20-25 min.
Hope you enjoy this, it really makes a tasty cake!
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I really love this cake. I like to put this frosting on it, or just a simple buttercream frosting. And we really love it with fruit on it, like halved strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries. Even if the berries aren't in season they still taste awesome on this cake.
Beth
ETA: This is a great cake to start with if you have never made a cake before. It is really just like making a boxed cake. You only dirty one bowl. Just so so easy.
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this my mama's(deep south for grandma) from Mississippi's chocolate cake recipe. delicious and easy and completely homemade. We like a lot of icing so we double the icing recipe and I usually up the cocoa to 5 tbsp.
Mama's Chocolate Cake
2 stick marg
4 tbsp cocoa
1 cup water
mix and melt on stove
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 tsp salt
add cocoa melted w/ flour-sugar
add 1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
blend and pour into flour sprayed cake pan
bake sheet pan 400 degrees 25 min
Icing
1 stick marg
4 tbsp cocoa
melt on stove
add to 1 box powd sugar
1 tsp vanilla
6 tbsp milk
also I use skim milk to make it slightly less fattening
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YUM! My mouth is watering. With two birthdays in the next three days at our house, you ladies have given me some great recipes to choose from. Thank you!
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We love love Kentucky Butter Cake
(link to allrecipes where I found it years ago)
INGREDIENTS
* 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
* 2 cups white sugar
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 cup buttermilk
* 1 cup butter
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 4 eggs
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* 3/4 cup white sugar
* 1/3 cup butter
* 3 tablespoons water
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
2. In a large bowl, mix the flour, 2 cups sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Blend in buttermilk, 1 cup of butter, 2 teaspoons of vanilla and 4 eggs. Beat for 3 minutes at medium speed. Pour batter into prepared pan.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Prick holes in the still warm cake. Slowly pour sauce over cake. Let cake cool before removing from pan.
4. To Make Butter Sauce: In a saucepan combine the remaining 3/4 cups sugar, 1/3 cup butter, 2 teaspoons vanilla, and the water. Cook over medium heat, until fully melted and combined, but do not boil.
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I've always found cakes from scratch to be a bit of a challenge myself, especially because of the higher altitude here. Cakes seem to be one of the baked goods most affected by altitude, so I recommend that you find a specific high altitude cake recipe or adapt for high altitude (less baking powder, slightly more flour). I know you aren't quite as high there, but it's pretty close. They often suggest adjusting at 3500 ft. though 5000 is more standard and I think you are close to that.
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hmmm we're not quite 4200.. and I have to adjust for candy making but not much for baking.. check for doneness don't just go by the clock and greasing pans a bit on the heavy side seems to take care of any problems I have.
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