Cakes?

catherine · Dec 5, 2004

Every year, I make about 12 rum cakes for my husband's best customers. Well, I'm sick of it.......I've made it soooo much that the smell of it makes me sick now. (It is a really good cake - just smelled it too much!)

Does anybody have any good cake recipes? I do cakes b/c it's easy to do and to transport.

I'd appreciate any ideas!

rapunzel47 · Dec 5, 2004

Here's a wonderful cake that's fairly quick to do, absolutely delicious, can even be sort of mass produced...

ORANGE KISS ME CAKE

1 Large Orange
1 c Raisins
1/3 c Pecans (walnuts Ok, if you like them)
2c Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Salt
1 c Sugar
1/2 c butter
1 c Milk, divided
2 Eggs

Juice Orange; reserve Juice
Grind together Orange, raisins and nuts; set aside
In large bowl sift together flour, baking soda, salt and sugar
Add butter and 3/4 c milk; beat 2 minutes, then add the eggs and other 1/4 c milk
Beat a further 2 minutes, then stir in the orange mixture
Pour into a greased and floured 13 x 9 pan* and bake in 350 oven 40 to 50 min. or until done
While still warm sprinkle with 1/3 c Orange Juice reserved (see note) then sprinkle with a mix of 1/2 c Sugar and 1 tsp Cinnamon

This recipe can be divided between two 8 inch square foil pans, instead, which makes giving them away very easy.

fwan · Dec 6, 2004

i havent made any cakes this year yet but i can give you a good bikkie recipe that you can put together and make it look like a cake!

chixyb · Dec 6, 2004

Try www.meals.com , I am intersted in making a Black Forrest cake, looks simple enough!

sweets · Dec 6, 2004

While I was babysitting Mom this weekend, we watched one of several food shows. This woman had an absolutely WONDERFUL idea. Buy an angelfood cake from the foodmarket and some white icing. Split the angelfood in half, so you now have 2 layers. Dye the icing with cocoa and cinnamon. Ice the bottom, place the top back on. Before you ice the entire cake, open a can of fruit pie filling and spoon into the middle hole of the cake. You can also put some of the filling in the middle of the cake with the icing. Now ice over the entire cake, covering the fruit in the middle. If you have a hard time covering the fruit, she suggested cutting a marshmallow in half and using that to plug the hole.

Sandy, Pipsqueek and Frantic

yosemite · Dec 6, 2004

Originally Posted by rapunzel47

Here's a wonderful cake that's fairly quick to do, absolutely delicious, can even be sort of mass produced...

ORANGE KISS ME CAKE

1 Large Orange
1 c Raisins
1/3 c Pecans (walnuts Ok, if you like them)
2c Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Salt
1 c Sugar
1/2 c butter
1 c Milk, divided
2 Eggs

Juice Orange; reserve Juice
Grind together Orange, raisins and nuts; set aside
In large bowl sift together flour, baking soda, salt and sugar
Add butter and 3/4 c milk; beat 2 minutes, then add the eggs and other 1/4 c milk
Beat a further 2 minutes, then stir in the orange mixture
Pour into a greased and floured 13 x 9 pan* and bake in 350 oven 40 to 50 min. or until done
While still warm sprinkle with 1/3 c Orange Juice reserved (see note) then sprinkle with a mix of 1/2 c Sugar and 1 tsp Cinnamon

This recipe can be divided between two 8 inch square foil pans, instead, which makes giving them away very easy.

This sounds great but I have a question. Do you grind the whole orange that's left after juicing, i.e., the skin and all?

rapunzel47 · Dec 6, 2004

Originally Posted by Yosemite

This sounds great but I have a question. Do you grind the whole orange that's left after juicing, i.e., the skin and all?

Yup! The works.

For anyone who's interested, there's also a variation that my Dad used latterly (before he had to give up cooking) which depends on another recipe for its existence/inspiration. That other recipe is Rob's Orange Brandy, one of the by-products of which is three rather disgusting looking seville oranges, which have spent six weeks or so getting throughly plotzed on brandy. He thought it was a shame to just pitch them, and tried using one in the OKMC. It was an instant hit. If anyone wants the OB recipe, let me know

hic! (If you like Grand Marnier, but find it on the sweet side, you'll love this.)

catherine · Dec 6, 2004

Here's the rum cake:
Batter:
1 box yellow cake mix
3/4c oil
4 eggs
16 oz. sour cream
1/2c sugar
Mix all of the above and pour HALF into a greesed pan (I use a pound cake pan).

Filling:
3Tbsp. brown sugar
3Tbsp. cinnamon
1/2c pecans
Mix the filling and sprinkle on the batter in the pan then pour the other half on top.
Bake at 325 for 45 min. or until brown.
When cool make the glaze:
3Tbsp. milk, 1/4 stick butter, melt then add 1&1/2c powdered sugar and 2 tsp rum or rum extract. Pour ontop of cooled cake.
It really is good and very moist - I've just made it soo much I'm sick of it!

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