Cakes


A nice collection of my favorite recipe

  • Queen Elizabeth Cake , a delicious date cake smothered in coconut!
  • Oatmeal Cake,....a delicious oatmeal cake covered with a brown sugar icing!
  • Carrot Cake... a cake filled with apples and carrots, making eating fruits and vegetables fun!

  • Almond Chocolate Cheesecake a delicious cheesecake flavored with almond liqueur.
  • German Chocolate Crumb Cake Serve plain or, my favorite, in a bowl with HEAVY cream.
  • Prune Cake A delicious way to use up all those prunes in the tree in the fall.

    Queen Elizabeth Cake

    A delicious cake made with dates and covered with coconut flakes!

  • 1 cup dates, chopped finely
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1/4 cup margarine or butter, melted
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/2 cup nuts, chopped ( optional)
  • Coconut Icing
    • Mix the dates with the boiling water and the soda. Allow to stand until cold. Mix the flour with the sugar and the baking powder. Add the cooled date mixture, egg, melted butter and vanilla. Pour into a greased 9" X 13" baking pan. Bake 35-45 minutes at 350° until a cake tester inserted in the middle comes out dry.

    Cover with coconut icing and enjoy!


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    Oatmeal Cake

    A cake you smoother in a brown sugar icing

  • 1¼ cups boiling water
  • ½ cup soft butter
  • 1 cup oatmeal, fast cooking
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar, well packed
  • 2 eggs
  • 11/3 cup flour
  • 1½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ salt
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon

  • Brown Sugar Icing

    • Cover the oatmeal with the boiling water in a bowl. Add the sugar, stirring well. Add the butter and stir until butter is completely melted. Add the remaining ingredients, making sure to finish with dry ingredients (except icing). Pour into a 13" X 9" X 2" baking mold. Bake at 325 °F oven, 35 minutes. Cool and ice with icing.



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    Carrot Cake

    enjoy this 'vegetable' cake!

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup salad oil
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup white flour
  • 1 cup wheat flour
  • 1 cup dry raisins
  • 1½ teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 2 cups shredded carrots
  • 1 cup shredded , peeled apples
  • ½ cup chopped nuts
  • Cream Cheese Icing

    • Beat the eggs, oil and sugar together until slightly thickened. Sift dry ingredients together. Using a small part of the flour mixture, enrobe the apples, raisins , carrot's and nuts in a bowl, mixing carefully. Add the remaining flour to the egg mixture beating well. Delicately add the fruits. Pour into a 9" X 13" X 2" greased mold. Bake in 350 °F oven 35-40 minutes. Cool on a cake grill and frost.


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    Almond Chocolate CheeseCake


  • 32 rolled finger cookies, dipped in chocolate
  • 2 (250 g. pkg) cream cheese
  • ¾ cup brown sugar
  • 1 envelope natural gelatin
  • ½ cup almond flavor liqueur
  • 1 cup 35% heavy cream, whipped
  • 6 squares semi-sweet chocolat
  • 1 square semi-sweet chocolate, grated
  • whole almonds, non blanched

    • Place the cookies on the edge of a 8 ½" round spring-form cake pan.

    Beat the cream cheese and brown sugar with an electrical beater until smooth. Sprinkle the gelatin on the almond liqueur in a small saucepan ; allow to rest five minutes to soften. Heat on low heat until the gelatin is completely dissolved. Add the hot gelatin mixture to the cream cheese. Add carefully the whipped cream. reserve 1 cup of this mixture. Melt the chocolate; allow to cool. Carefully add to the whipped cream mixture. Pour into cake mold, reserving ½ cup of this mixture; spread the white mixture reserved earlier on the top. Swirl the chocolate mixture over the top, using a knife to swirl. Refrigerate at least three hours.

    To prepare topping: Melt the chocolate in double boiler over simmering heat. Remove from heat, stirring until chocolate is completely melted. Dip the almonds into the cooled chocolate; refrigerate. Place cooled almonds on the top of the biscuits to decorate.


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    German Crumb Cake


  • 3 cups flour
  • 2 cups brown sugar
  • 1 cup Crisco vegetable shortening
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 Tbs vinegar
  • 1 tsp baking soda

    • Cut together flour, brown sugar, and Crisco. Remove 1 cup and set aside. Add eggs and spices to remaining flour mixture.

    Mix milk and vinegar, let stand 5 min. Add baking soda, mix until foamy. Add milk to flour mix, stir just a little to mix a bit. Pour in greased tube pan. Sprinkle reserved flour mix on top. Bake at 375F (190C) for 1 hour, until toothpick is JUST clean. Do not over stir! Do not overbake!


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