Pound cake

Good evening,

Wanted to post about this pound cake I made. Who doesn't like a nice pound cake? This was nice, plain in flavor, nice crumb and texture. No complaints, although next time I think I would do something to change the flavor. Maybe I would add lemon, or almond.

We ate it plain the first night. The next night we topped slices of the cake with chocolate ice cream , hot fudge sauce & a big ol' squirt of whipped cream. Now that was nice!

Here's where I got the recipe: http://sweet-as-sugar-cookies.blogspot.com/2011/04/condensed-milk-pound-cake.html

Condensed Milk Pound Cake (Recipe by Pichet Ong in The Sweet Spot)

1 1/3 c. all-purpose flour

1 c. unsalted butter

3/4 c. condensed milk

1/2 c. sugar

3/4 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. sea salt

3 large eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

Preheat oven to 325F and generously butter a 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" loaf pan or three mini loaf pans. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Cream the butter with the sugar. Add the vanilla. Pour in condensed milk and mix until well combined. Add sifted flour mixture bit by bit while continuing to whisk until completely incorporated. Lastly, add the eggs to the mixture and whisk until well combined. Pour batter into the loaf pan(s). If using three mini pans, it is approximately 1 cup of batter per pan. Bake 1 hour for large loaf and 45 min. for mini loaves. Cake is ready when the top is dark golden brown and a skewer comes out clean when inserted in the middle of the cake.

Box cake review

Hi, I made this box cake mix intending for my husband to take it to work to share with his coworkers. It was so awful, I was too embarrassed to send it. My husband didn't like it either. I'm so surprised that this mix was as awful as it was. Duncan Hines is a reputable company & I have used their regular cake mixed more times than I can remember. At first I wasn't going to post about this, but then I thought I should warn other bakers out there. So I dug this box out of the garbage to photograph it. Unfortunately, I didn't think to take a picture of the cake before I threw it out. It did bake up nice, but that's all I can say good about it. So save yourself some disappointment and make the carrot cake from scratch. You won't be sorry.

Pizza

Good evening!

I just have to tell you what delicious pizza dough I just made!!! It's sooooo yummy! You know I am a pizza fanatic, don't you? I could eat it breakfast, lunch and dinner and be happy.

This dough tastes great. It's not tough or chewy.

The only changes I made are substituting bread flour for the wheat flour, kneading,(well, actually, letting the Kitchen Aid knead) it for 7 minutes and then I let it rise for an hour.

Whenever I make pizza, I always preheat my cast iron skillet in a 425 degree oven. I shape the dough and put it right on the skillet, no grease or corn meal needed to keep it from sticking. I then add sauce and toppings. It only takes about 8 minutes to bake.

I got the recipe from: http://www.tammysrecipes.com/cheesy_whole_wheat_vegetable_calzones

Try this, you'll never be satisfied with a frozen pizza again. Trust me.

Dough Ingredients: 1 cup warm water (110-115 degrees)

2 tablespoons oil

1 tablespoon sugar

1 teaspoon salt

2 3/4 to 3 cups whole wheat flour

1 tablespoon dry yeast

1. Prepare whole wheat calzone dough by putting ingredients (in order listed) into a large bowl (or bread machine), using about 2 cups of the flour. Stir to combine; continue adding flour and knead mixture with hands to make a smooth, elastic dough. Knead 5 minutes.

Date cake

Hi, I'm back. Just got done moving. My husband got a new job. I forgot how grueling moving is. Especially as I get older.

Got the kitchen all unpacked and was itching to bake something. This date cake is very moist and delicious. It does seen a little overly sweet to me. Maybe a mix of 1/2 brown sugar and 1/2 white sugar would cut down on the sweetness. I don't know if my pan was an 8 inch instead of 9 inch, but I had just a little too much batter. I filled two jumbo muffin cups with the excess batter and baked them right along with the cake. My cake sunk in the middle after I took it out of the oven. That was my fault though. I didn't do the "stick a tooth pick in and see if it comes out clean".

I liked this cake. It can be found on the mennonite girls can cook blog site.

Enjoy.

Moving

Good morning from my lovely & reasonable hotel room. My oven's been off all week. :( My husband got a new job in a new state & so we're moving! I may be able to bake something by the end of the month. Don't know for sure. Til then, happy baking to you all!

Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake

Good chilly morning!!

I got a thick pair of socks on this morning. I don't know where that Spring weather went!

Made a very delicious coffee cake this morning. It's very simple & doesn't call for any strange ingredients. It was moist and delicious. I actually followed the recipe to the letter - and that's unusual for me! You know me, the tweaker! The chocolate chips do not seem esential to me, so if you don't happen to have them, bake the cake anyway. It will still be great.

I am sorry I do not know know where in the vast internet universe I even got this recipe. I am not pretending it is original to me. I admit it is someone else's, I just don't know whose!

Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake

1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup buttermilk
3/4 cup chocolate chips



3 tbsp all purpose flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
pinch salt
3 tbsp butter, chilled

Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly grease a 9-inch round cake pan (a springform is a good choice).
In a medium mixing bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt together.

In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, and vanilla extract. Mix in half of the flour mixture, followed by the buttermilk and then the rest of the flour mixture. Stir only until no streaks of flour remain, then stir in chocolate chips.

Pour batter into prepared pan, then prepare the topping.

In a small or medium bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, ground cinnamon and salt. Cut butter into several chunks and add to flour mixture. Rub in with your fingertips until mixture resembles coarse sand. Sprinkle evenly onto cake batter already in pan.

Bake at 350F for 25-30 minutes in a 9-inch round pan, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean or with only a few moist crumbs attached.

Cool cake completely (in the pan is fine) on a wire rack before serving.

Serves 10.

Pound Cake

Good morning!

It's beautiful here this morning! 62 degrees right now & I love it!

I saw a delicious looking chocolate pound cake on a website and thought I would make it. It was very tasty; kinda like a brownie, but not quite. The crumb was nice, the cake was moist. As you can see, it did not survive being taken out of the loaf pan! What you will see if you look at the original site is that her cake sunk. My cake sunk too, only i turned mine upside down right away so the sinking is on the bottom. It's a very good cake and certainly worthy of being baked. Next time I bake it I am gonna try baking it in a 8" cake pan.

Anyway, give it a try!

http://allthatsleftarethecrumbs.blogspot.com/2011/03/cake-slice-march-2011-chocolate-cream.html