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Cake Recipes?
Posted by cookingasshole • 9/08/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: cake
My daughter is turning one this month and I am making the birthday cake. I have made two runs at it so far but I have not zeroed in on a recipe I really like.
So what do you got? Do you have an awesome cake recipe you would like to share with me?
Credit will be given where credit is due.
User Comments
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Step 1,
Buy Betty Crocker
Step 2,
follow directions-
Is that how your mother cooks?
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Cakes yes
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what a horrible existence.
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I don't really eat sweets. So it doesn't affect me at all
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you probably don't eat sweets because you have not had any worth eating.
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Nay. I just don't have a sweet tooth
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Following DB's directions, get the microwavable kind
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*sigh* I knew this was a question for CL food forum...
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Cake from a box...a microwave :| -
@CA
Pose it on halfhourmeals... it's the BC sister site for food bloggers. -
CL food forum is actually the best
what happened to the sock monkey?!?!? -
TJ they are actually good! You get the powdered cake and fudge of caramel. Mix the powder with a little water, pour the fudge on top, microwave and ta-dah! warm, fluffy cake. Ideal for me because I live by myself and a whole cake would be a waste, they come in individual sizes
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Haha that does sound good
!! Man I'm getting hungry here!
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I only make cold pies and cakes, I have not baked one since I was 14
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cold cake?
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I make a paste out of condensed milk, evaporated milk and lime juice. I pour that on top of Marias cookies (Mexican cookies, kinda like graham), making layers of cookies-paste and fruit (peaches or mangoes). We call that cold cake
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that actually sounds really good!
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Proper recipe:
1 can of condensed milk
1 can of evaporated milk
1/4 cup of lime juice (I use key limes, about 10 of these)
Blend all the ingredients together. Pour on top of Marias cookies layered on a container. Layer more cookies on top and more milk paste until it's gone, jajajaja. Put some fruit in between layers and on top. Refrigerate until solid (or almost solid), about 4 hours.
This are the Marias cookies:
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Deray, That sounds really nice!
Do you make flan as well? I have a recipe for a Spanish flan, using evaporated milk, condensed milk, eggs and I make a caramel sauce with it. Your recipe sounds similar, only I don't use cookie crumb bottom
I know these cookies! -
I have never attempted to make flan, jajaja, but yeah, the recipes are kind of similar, eggs instead of limes. The flan is cooked on a water bath though. My mom's flan is the best!
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Oh it's really easy! At least my recipe is easy haha. I know that you have recipes were you have to divide the eggs and so on. Yeah the flan is cooked in a water bath ^_^. How does your mom make it? divide the eggs and so on?
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She has a special container to make it. She's had it probably since she got married, jajajaja. I think she uses the small container inside a pressure cooker.
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oh yeah ofcourse! My aunt also has a special baking tin, container thing. I make mine in a round baking tin, cover it with foil and place it in a larger tin and fill it half way with water and then bake it for like 50 minutes. And voila, one flan is done ^_^
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Have you looked on allrecipes.com? Sometimes I go there for recipes. I did have one easy recipe for a simply white cake. It turns out great every time! I believe it's called simply white cake.
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that place is for trailer trash
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check hippierecipes.com
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CA - whaha noo it isn't! You just have to dig to find the good recipes.
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@ DB
very funny mister
@ TJ
I know I am just screwing around but the best site is epicurious.com
I am just looking for a family recipe or something here -
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epicurious is where I get a lot of my flavor pairing ideas
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What I do is use a box cake and then I decorate like this:
For something real unique get piping bags or ziplocs and a white cake mix put food color in individual bags with the premade mix and use different colors to make a rainbow cupcake. It will look something like this images36.fotki.com/v1179/photos/2/24987/6281759/DSC_0239-vi.jpg-
those ice cream cones are neat!
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Those you fill until you get to the rim inside and you bake using a toothpick to make sure your cake is done. It's like any other cupcake.
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that castle looks hardcore...was it hard to get it to balance? Did you have to use oversized toothpicks to get it to stick properly?
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No, had it been bigger I would have needed dowels though. I have instruction for that one on my blog mythoughtsalways.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-thoughts-always-i-am-cake-of.html
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that really is incredible...thanks for sharing Shiley!
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I love the tie-dye cupcakes! -
They're fun to make.
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wp
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This is where I get all of my decorating supplies but they also have AMAZING recipes www.wilton.com/recipes/
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that is EXACTLY what I was looking for
Thanks again Shiley! -
Welcome! If you are planning on making fondant www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yj4KGtBaDg This tastes so good. I have a recipe for butter cream icing too.
* 1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
* 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine softened
* 1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract
* 4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (approximately 1 lb.)
* 2 tablespoons milk
If you have high humidity no butter. It breaks down the icing. Make sure you crumb coat too.
Wilton has a forum too a lot of amazing cakes and professionals and non-professionals the post recipes as well www.wilton.com/forums/categories.cfm?catid=7
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I thought you loved the vegan cake you made??-
I did but it does not look nice enough...I want it to be fancy
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fancy how, like with bows and ribbons and such?
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I dunno...I just want something that looks nice but I think it is a matter of the icing
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you'll have better "baby eating first birthday cake" pictures with chocolate cake!It's messier!
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that is very true...
do you have any frosting recipes Doll? i.e. are there any cake stores near you that rock? -
I don't have any frosting recipes sadly...
This place makes BEAUTIFUL cakes, sadly I don't like the cake but the icing is the bomb.
www.cupcakecafe-nyc.com/
(this is not the shitty Magnolia Bakery from Sex in the City...) -
those are really cool!!
you LOVE sex and the city, don't lie -
I liked the first season, truth be told..
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did you see the movie?
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Bite Your TONGUE!
NO i did not see the movie! -
so you didn't see the part when...
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noooo???
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I saw that movie with my (previously) pregnant lady on opening night. I was the only real dude in the theater...it was very uncomfortable but I survived
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phew! did anyone see you?
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I ran into one of my friends in the theater but I played it off like I was there for Indiana Jones.
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sweet.
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yeah
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lol.
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zzzzz...
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zzzzz huh?
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I just made some beer braised short ribs that were pretty bad ass
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Tony B here at BC said they started this website. www.halfhourmeals.com
Maybe you'll find more culinary minds over there. Actually, we're supposed to turn to you for the recipes, aren't we?
BTW, there was some post earlier about getting someone up to an apartment, and I volunteered you to cater it.-
they hate me over there. I usually go to CL food forum but I figured I would give here a shot.
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What do you mean they hate you over there??
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all my stuff gets TERRIBLE reviews due to the potty humor
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Here's the story with the monkey... I just needed a change. More color, I guess. Besides, I like the petunias.
Now, to the recipes... I like Chris Kimball's Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook. He tests several recipes to zero in on the best "version"... I like that approach at times.
He has a great, moist applesauce cake recipe and chiffon cakes, pudding cakes and white cakes. I have not gone wrong with any of any of them.
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My favorite recipe is for a flourless cake-- so that may not fit the "fancy-looking" bill.
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Good Lord, I thought she had her birthday already. At this point I would just take her to McDonald's and get one with Ronald McDonald on it or somethin'. How hard is it to bake a cake? -
Reading about all these recipes are making me a little hungry! Let me know the cake recipe you enjoy the most!I would like to try my luck in the kitchen baking one day! -
I ususally just bake a box cake. I have made cakes from scratch, and the frosting from scratch, too, but all of that is too much work. I used the cake recipe from the back of a Hershey's Cocoa box. It was pretty good. Lately I have been eating those Betty Crocker Warm Delights microwavable bowl cakes that you just add a little water to and nuke-the Betty Crocker brownies Warm Delights are great.
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what types of desserts does she like? I have a nice cake recipe but it's a fruited type and not your average birthday cakish cake
we don't do traditional birthday cakes. one son has carrotcake, one has pumpkin pie, I have bread pudding, and the man has blueberry pie. -
She's only 1. You could give her a mud pie and she wouldn't care.
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The first birthday is more for the parents and if you love to cook or bake it is the best especially when your baby is covered in goo at the end just enjoying your gift to them.
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White cake
* 2cup white sugar
* 1 cup butter
* 4eggs
* 4 teaspoons vanilla extract (for different flavors try Almond extract or other flavors)
* 3 cups all-purpose flour
* 2 1/2teaspoons baking powder
* 1 cup milk (or use evaporated milk)
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour pan or line a muffin pan with paper liners.
2. In a medium bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine flour and baking powder, add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Finally stir in the milk until batter is smooth. Pour or spoon batter into the prepared pan.
3. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven. For cupcakes, bake 20 to 25 minutes. Cake is done when it springs back to the touch.
Chocolate cake
* 2 cups sugar
* 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
* 3/4 cup baking 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
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.
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
2/3 cup baking Cocoa
3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Chocolate icing
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.
Chocolate Buttercream icing
1/2 c. shortening
1/2 c. butter (optional if omitted add 1/2 c shortening)
1 tsp. vanilla
4 c. sifted powdered sugar
3/4 c. sifted cocoa
3-4 tbsp. milk
Cream shortening, butter, and vanilla together until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in sugar and cocoa on medium speed, scraping down bowl often. Add milk until light and fluffy.
For white icing get rid of the cocoa.
Add food color to change colors I use a concentrated food color www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3E30C97E-475A-BAC0-5A609FE5C550668...
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Have her make her own. Haven't you ever heard of pat-a-cak, pat-a-cake, bakersman? lol.
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