Aunt Marys Cake Recipes

AUNT MARY'S DELICIOUS BUNNY CAKE

Steps:

• Place a rack into the lower third of oven.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Grease and flour a cake mold pan (such as a bunny cake or train cake mold) using vegetable shortening.
• Sift flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
• Mix 1 1/3 cup milk, lemon extract, 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract, and orange extract in a separate bowl.
• Beat unsalted butter in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until butter is creamy and smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. Beat in white sugar and continue beating until the mixture is light and fluffy, about 5 more minutes. Scrape the sides of the bowl occasionally.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating each egg in thoroughly before adding the next.
• Reduce mixer speed to low and beat in flour mixture in several additions, alternating with milk mixture; begin and end with flour mixture. Do not overbeat. Scrape bowl occasionally.
• Pour batter evenly into prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean, 30 to 45 minutes.
• Place cake in pan on a wire rack and allow to cool for 15 minutes before inverting pan to remove cake. Allow cake to completely cool on wire rack, 3 to 4 hours.
• Beat vegetable shortening, 1/2 cup butter, confectioners' sugar, 2 tablespoons milk, and 1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract in a bowl until frosting is smooth and creamy.
• Pack the frosting into a heavy resealable plastic bag; force the frosting into one corner of the bag. Clip a small corner off the plastic bag, seal the bag, and pipe the frosting onto the cooled cake in desired pattern.

AUNT MARY'S APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat over to 350 degrees F.
• Sprinkle apples with sugar and let stand.
• Mix beaten egg and butter.
• Sift in flour, soda, salt and cinnamon and mix very well.
• Fold into apples and make sure the apples are well and evenly coated.
• Mix in raisins and, if desired, nuts.
• Note: we use raisins which have been soaked in bourbon.
• Note 2: If using regular raisins, make sure you plump them in warm water or rum or the like, then drain before adding.
• Place in a buttered 8" x 8" square baking dish or in a buttered bundt pan and bake for about 50 minutes.
• Cool briefly on rack in pan; turn out of the pan and allow to cool to room temperature on a rack.

AUNT MARY'S CAKE

Steps:

• grease & flour 9"x13" baking pan-in medium bowl mix flours,baking soda, salt & cinnamon - in large bowl beat sugar,oil,and eggs with wooden spoon until slightly thickened - stir dry mixture into sugar mixture - add carrots, apple,raisons,nuts and blend. turn into pan - bake in 350 degree preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes - cool on wire rack. CREAM CHEESE ICING - beat cream cheese and butter with wooden spoon in small bowl until fluffy - beat in vanilla and enough icing sugar until spreading consistency.frost and cool cake. Enjoy.

AUNT MARY'S VANILLA FROSTING

Steps:

• Combine butter or margarine, shortening, confectioners' sugar, flour, vanilla, and milk in a mixing bowl. Whip all ingredients until fluffy.

AUNT MARY'S SOUTHERN CAKE

Steps:

• Cream together flour, shortening, 2 cups sugar, and then add yolks one at a time. Add buttermilk, salt, soda, and vanilla.
• In a seperate bowl beat egg whites until stiff and add 1 cup remaining sugar. Gently fold this into other batter.
• Pour into two greased and floured loaf pans and cook at 350 degrees for for one hour and 10 minutes or until done.
• I cut strawberries and toss with sugar to make their own syrup and pour these over cooled cake slices.