Yellow Cake Recipe

  

 
This yellow cake recipe is a simply delicious made from scratch cake that can be frosted with almost any flavor frosting.
It is moist and delicious, the perfect dessert after a home cooked meal.

Yellow Cake

Ingredients:

1/3 cup softened shortening
1/2 cup butter, softened
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup milk

Directions:
1. Cream softened shortening and butter. Add the eggs to the mixture, mix well.
2. Sift together all dry ingredients and add to the creamy mixture. Stir in milk and vanilla.
3. Bake at 350 degrees F in two 9 inch round cake pans for 25 to 30 minutes.
3. Frost with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting (recipe below).
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
Ingredients:

3/4 cups baking cocoa
2-2/3 cup confectioners' sugar
6 Tablespoons butter, at room temperature
5 Tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:
1. Combine cocoa and sugar in a bowl.
2. With an electric mixer, cream the butter with 1/2 cup of the cocoa/sugar mixture in a medium bowl.
3. Add the remaining cocoa/sugar mixture alternately with milk, beating to spreading consistency.
4. Blend in vanilla. Makes 2 cups.

Carrot Cake Recipe

 A moist and thick carrot cake recipe with a wonderfully nutty flavor. This is the carrot cake recipe from the local coffee shop, it gets rave reviews.
Make sure to frost it with the decadent cream cheese frosting, this is a cake that is too good to save just for special occasions!

Carrot Cake

Ingredients:
Cake:

4 eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 cups sugar
1 cup pecans, chopped
4 cups grated carrots
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon

Cream Cheese Frosting:

1/2 stick butter, softened
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1 box powdered sugar (1 lb.)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions:
Carrot Cake Directions:
1. Combine sugar, baking powder, flour, cinnamon and baking soda in a bowl. Add in the eggs and oil.
2. Mix until just blended and then add the carrots and pecans.
3. Bake at 375 degrees F to 400 degrees F for 35 to 40 minutes or until done.

Frosting Directions:
1. Mix cream cheese and butter until smooth, add sugar and vanilla and blend well. Spread on cooled cake.

Black Forest Cake Recipe

 

Rich dark chocolate cake filled with cherries and decadent kirsch make this a cake that will impress even the most jaded foodies.

Black Forest Cake

Ingredients:

1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup kirsch
1/2 cup butter
3 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1 pinch salt
1 teaspoon strong brewed coffee
2 (14 ounce) cans pitted Bing cherries, drained
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 Tablespoon kirsch
1 (1 ounce) square semisweet chocolate

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line the bottoms of two 8 inch round pans with parchment paper circles.
2. Sift together flour, cocoa, baking soda and 1 teaspoon salt. Set aside.
3. Cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Beat in flour mixture, alternating with buttermilk, until combined.
4. Pour into 2 round 8 inch pans.
5. Bake at 350 degrees F for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Cool completely. Remove paper from the cakes.
6. Cut each layer in half, horizontally, making 4 layers total. Sprinkle layers with the 1/2 cup kirsh.
7. In a medium bowl, cream the butter until light and fluffy. Add confectioners sugar, pinch of salt, and coffee; beat until smooth. If the consistency is too thick, add a couple teaspoons of cherry juice or milk.
8. Spread first layer of cake with 1/3 of the filling. Top with 1/3 of the cherries. Repeat with the remaining layers.
9. In a separate bowl, whip the cream to stiff peaks. Beat in 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and 1 tablespoon kirsh.
10. Frost top and sides of cake. Sprinkle with chocolate curls made by using a potato peeler on semisweet baking chocolate.

Better Than Sex Cake Recipe

This wonderfully rich better than sex cake will clear up any doubts you may have about a cake being better than sex. This one, with it's rich flavor, is a sure winner!
Trivia note - when this recipe fist hit the streets, it was supposedly named: "The Next Best Thing to Robert Redford". My how things have changed...The cake is wonderful however.

Better Than Sex Cake

Ingredients:

1 (18.5 oz) package yellow cake mix (do not use the pudding in the mix type)
2/3 cup sugar
1 (20 oz.) can crushed pineapple
1 (6 oz.) package vanilla pudding mix
1 tub non-dairy whipped topping
flaked or shredded coconut

Directions:
1. Grease and flour a 9x13 inch cake pan, bake the cake according to package directions.
2. Put holes into the top of the cake (use toothpicks or wooden skewers)
3. Mix pineapple and sugar then pour over cake.
4. Cook the pudding according to the package directions and pour over cake. Chill in refrigerator.
5. Spread whipped topping over cake and sprinkle coconut on top.
6. Keep refrigerated.