Cake Recipes

Never Fail Sponge Cake

Ingredients
4 eggs, separated
1 cup sugar
4 Tablespoons cold water
1 cup sifted cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
Whipped cream
Sliced strawberries

Beat egg yolks and sugar together until very light. Add water. Sift together flour and baking soda. Add to batter. Beat egg whites until stiff. Fold into batter. Pour batter into well greased small angel food pan.

Bake at 325 degrees for about 30 minutes. Cool completely and invert onto cake platter. Prepare whipped cream and strawberries. To serve, slice cake in half and fill with half the whipped cream. Top with remaining whipped cream and strawberries.

Serves: 12 to 14

Coffee-flavor Cake

Ingredients:
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup cocoa
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 Tablespoon baking powder
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup hot coffee

Mix all ingredients except hot coffee. Add hot coffee and beat slowly. Mixture will be thin. Pour into greased 9 x 9-inch square pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes.

Buche De Noel

rom cake. Trim crisp edges of cake if desired. Roll in waxed paper and cool before filling.

Filling: In medium bowl, combine instant pudding and milk. Beat on low speed 1 minute. Fold in whipped cream. Refrigerate until ready to use.

To complete Yule Log, unroll carefully and remove from waxed paper. Fill generously with pudding filling. When filled, roll and place on serving platter. Cover roll with any favorite chocolate icing, including the ends. To give it a log-like appearance, drag the tines of a fork through the icing from end to end. Cut red and green maraschino cherries to look like holly berries and stems and place on log. Refrigerate until served.

Serves: approximately 8 to 10.Ingredients for Cake
1-1/2 cups sifted flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
3 egg yolks
1-1/2 cups sifted sugar
6 Tablespoons cold water
3 stiffly beaten egg whites
Powdered sugar
Any favorite recipe for chocolate icing or chocolate icing mix
Ingredients for Filling
1 package regular-size instant vanilla pudding and pie filling
1 cup milk
1/2 cup heavy or whipping cream, whipped

Cake: Mix flour, baking powder, and salt and sift 3 times. Beat egg yolks until very light and thick; add sugar slowly, beating well after each addition. Stir in water. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Fold in flour, a small amount at a time. Line a 9 x 16-inch jelly roll pan with waxed paper and pour in batter. Cut and save a second sheet of waxed paper the dimensions of the pan for later. Bake in moderate oven (375 degrees) for about 15 minutes. Turn from pan immediately onto second sheet of waxed paper covered with powdered sugar. Remove paper f

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