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Friday, August 12, 2011

Southern Caramel Cake

A light, tender yellow butter cake with a classic boiled icing, traditionally made from burnt sugar or for more modern versions, with boiled brown sugar.

Southern Caramel Cake

As soon as I knew they were making a movie from the book The Help (#ad), I knew I wanted to make a caramel cake for the website. Really, from the first time I read about Minny's caramel cake in the book in 2009, I knew I'd be making one. There is just something about this book that makes you want a caramel cake... and maybe never want to eat a chocolate pie - at least for awhile. You'll know what I mean on all of the above counts if you read the book.

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My intention had been to make this cake over the past weekend, but I was dragging my tail-end here recently thanks to fighting off a summer cold while simultaneously pulling a muscle in my back and found my motivation lacking.

With the film making its debut at the theater Wednesday, I decided to make the cake anyway, and found myself up at 2:00 a.m. that morning icing a cake!

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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Mama's Red Velvet Cake

A classic southern cake that usually makes its appearance over the Christmas holidays.

Mama's Red Velvet Cake

This was a traditional Christmas cake around our house growing up and it is as moist as it is pretty. I can barely think of Red Velvet Cake without thinking of my Mama, and it is the Christmas season where my heart gets real heavy on missing her.

I have heard that there is a newer evolution of red velvet cake that substitutes cooking oil for the real butter used in the original cake. I can't imagine why. Why you would want the oily residue of a cooking oil versus the flavor impact and richness of butter is beyond me, though I think it probably has something to do with the mouth feel texture result, which would probably be somewhat similar to a box cake mix that so many people use. If so, then just use the box mix I say! As far as me, I don't know that I'll go messing around with something that I know is delicious and good... and works!

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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Basic 1-2-3-4 Yellow Birthday Cake with Chocolate Icing

An old-fashioned scratch layer cake, called 1-2-3-4 Yellow Cake because of the ingredient amounts.

Basic 1-2-3-4 Yellow Birthday Cake

I've already told ya'll that I'm not big on baking layer cakes, because well, I'm too much of a perfectionist and my cakes are always far from perfect looking - uneven layers, too much or too little filling between the layers, crumbs in the frosting,- though at least they (generally) all taste good.

As far as decorating? Pfffft. I just don't have that talent.

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Monday, December 1, 2008

Homemade Butter Cake with Pineapple Filling and Buttercream Cream Cheese Frosting

A basic scratch butter cake recipe that produces a light, fluffy and moist cake.

Homemade Butter Cake

I'd be the first to tell you that I'm not much of a cake maker. Just have not made near enough of them to get very good with it I suppose, unlike my Mama who turned out perfect cakes. So, when I decide I want a cake, most often I'll just pull out a 9 x 13 inch pan, whip up some icing and be done with it. But when I went to make this cake, I changed my mind and decided that I wanted to do a layer cake, despite the fact that I have never been very good at layer cakes and never mind that I can't even recall the last time that I actually did make a layer cake.

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