Dads Pound Cake Recipes

DAD G'S CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• Melt margarine in a skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir onion and green bell pepper in margarine until tender, about 5 minutes. Stir mustard, Worcestershire sauce, seafood seasoning, salt, hot pepper sauce, black pepper, and cayenne pepper into the onion mixture. Sprinkle flour over the mixture; stir to integrate. Pour cream over the mixture; bring to a boil, stirring constantly and cook for 1 minute. Fold crab meat into the mixture.
• Spoon some of the liquid from the skillet into the bowl with the beaten egg yolks to temper the egg; stir. Pour the egg mixture into the skillet and stir. Cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens, about 5 minutes.
• Transfer crab mixture to a bowl; refrigerate until chilled completely, about 1 hour.
• Mix bread crumbs, melted butter, and paprika in a shallow bowl.
• Divide the crab mixture into 4 portions; form into patties. Gently press the patties into the bread crumb mixture to coat.
• Pour enough corn oil into a flat-bottomed pan to be 1-inch deep; heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Cook patties in hot oil until golden brown, 2 to 3 minutes per side.

DAD'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350* Lightly grease and sugar Loaf pan.
• Mix all ingredients well, till smooth, pour into pan. Bake for 1 hour and ten minutes, let cool on rack in pan for 5 minutes then turn out on rack and let cool 20 minutes, wrap in foil to hold moisture in. Serve warm or cold.

MOOSEWOOD POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Cream together butter and sugar with an electric mixer at high speed till light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.
• Sift together dry ingredients.
• Mix together milk and vanilla extract.
• Add dry and wet to butter mixture alternately, beginning and ending with dry. Mix by hand, using a rubber spatula or wooden spoon, after each addition.
• Mix thoroughly, just enough to blend.
• Pour into buttered and floured tube or bundt pan (or two loaf pans). Bake 1 hour, or till toothpick inserted into center comes out dry.
• After the cake cools ten minutes, turn out onto a plate.
• Cool completely before you slice it.

DO-IT-YOURSELF DAD CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F. Grease 1 1/2-quart ovenproof bowl (8 inches across top) with shortening; coat with flour (do not use cooking spray).
• Make cake batter as directed on box. Pour batter into 1 1/2-quart bowl. Bake 47 to 53 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Remove cake from bowl; place rounded side up on cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour. If necessary, cut off rounded top of cake.
• Divide white frosting between 2 small bowls. Add blue food color to 1 bowl to make desired blue color for jeans. Place cake on tray cut side down; spread white frosting over half of cake (for Dad's t-shirt) and blue frosting over other half (for Dad's jeans), leaving a small area in between unfrosted (for Dad's back peeking out).
• Carefully place individual blue and brown candy sprinkles along back of jeans for belt line and seams. Place mini candy-coated chocolate candies on jeans to outline pocket. Carefully fold fruit snack to look like handkerchief, and press into frosting as if it were coming out of pocket.
• Microwave chewy chocolate candy on High 3 to 5 seconds, just until moldable. Firmly press broken end of pretzel rod into side of chewy candy to make hammer. Place on cake.
• Spoon chocolate frosting into resealable food-storage plastic bag. Cut tiny tip from 1 corner of bag, and pipe lines on sugar wafer to look like ruler; place on cake.
• Wrap string licorice around center of peanut butter sandwich cookie, leaving 1 end sticking out to look like tape measure; place on cake. Store loosely covered.