Spice Cake With Penuche Frosting Recipes

SPICE CAKE WITH PENUCHE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, cloves, cinnamon, and allspice. Set aside.
• In mixing bowl, cream together shortening and sugars. Add eggs one at a time and beat for 2 minutes. Add orange juice and buttermilk alternately with flour mixture and beat for another 2 minutes. Stir in chopped nuts. Pour mixture into greased oblong cake pan. Bake for 30-35 minutes. Allow to cool before frosting.

SCRUMPTIOUS PENUCHE FROSTING

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in brown sugar and bring the mixture to a boil. Reduce the heat and continue to simmer for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Stir in half-and-half cream and salt and return to a boil, continuing to stir. Remove the caramel from the heat and allow to cool to lukewarm, then add vanilla.
• Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar with an electric mixer until smooth, being careful not to over-beat. If the frosting becomes too thick, hot water can be added to thin it out. Spread over a cooled cake and sprinkle with pecans. Allow the frosting to set before serving, about 15 minutes.

OLD-FASHIONED BUTTERSCOTCH CAKE WITH PENUCHE FROSTING

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream brown sugar and shortening until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Stir in pecans., Transfer to a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool completely on a wire rack., For frosting, in a small saucepan, melt butter. Stir in the brown sugar, milk and salt. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 3 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Cool to room temperature, about 20 minutes. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar. Frost cake.

GRANDMA'S PENUCHE FROSTING

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large saucepan.
• Add brown sugar and bring to a boil.
• continue cooking for 1 minute until thickens.
• Let set 15 minutes.
• Mix in hot milk.
• Add powdered sugar gradually till spreading consisitancy.
• If it gets too thick add a little milk.

APPLESAUCE CAKE WITH PENUCHE FROSTING RECIPE - (4/5)

Steps:

• Sift flour, white sugar, soda, salt, baking powder, and spices into a large mixing bowl. Mix in 1/2 cup butter, buttermilk, and applesauce. Beat for 2 minutes with an electric mixer on medium speed. Beat in eggs. Fold in chopped nuts and/or raisins (if using). Pour batter into a greased and floured 9 x 13-inch pan. Bake at 350°F for 50 minutes. Frosting: Melt the butter in a large saucepan. Add the brown sugar and bring to a boil (about 2 minutes) and continue cooking until it thickens (about 1 minute more) Let set for 15 minutes. Mix in hot milk and gradually whisk in the confectioner's sugar. If the frosting becomes too thick, add a little milk. Quickly spread the frosting on the cake. Once the frosting cools, it will become harder with an almost fudge-like texture. NOTE: This frosting is excellent on chocolate cake, too!

BUTTERMILK SPICE CAKE WITH PENUCHE FROSTING

Steps:

• In a mixer bowl, sift flour, white sugar, powder, soda, salt and spices.
• I also sometimes add a grating of fresh nutmeg, and a pinch of ginger if desired.
• (never measured amounts).
• Add buttermilk, brown sugar, and shortening.
• Beat for two minutes.
• Add eggs, and beat another and final two minutes.
• Spread batter into two greased and floured 9 inch round cake pans.
• Bake 350 degrees for 30 minutes, until tester shows done.
• Cool and remove to wire rack for perfect cooling.
• Penuche Frosting:.
• In saucepan melt the half cup butter and stir in the one cup brown sugar.
• Cook until dissolved and boil for two minutes.
• Remove from heat and add the quarter cup evaporated milk.
• Return to heat and return to boiling point stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat.
• Cool to lukewarm.
• Beat in 1 3/4 to 2 cups powdered icing sugar.
• If its too thick add in a few tablespoons more milk little at a time.
• If its too thin add in more icing powder a little at a time.
• When to your desired spreading consistency, fill and frost cake.

FROSTED SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Combine the water, oil, vinegar and vanilla; add to dry ingredients and beat until smooth (batter will be thin). , Pour into a 13x9-in. baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Stir remaining cinnamon into frosting; spread over cake.

ZUCCHINI SPICE CAKE WITH PENUCHE FROSTING

Steps:

• Put cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, water, oil, eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt in a large mixing bowl.
• Blend with an electric mixer on low speed for 1 minute. Increase speed to medium and beat 2 to 3 minutes more.
• Fold in the grated zucchini.
• Pour batter into greased and floured tube pan.
• Bake 60 to 65 minutes at 350 degrees.
• Penuche Frosting.
• Place brown sugar and butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Simmer, stirring constantly, 2 minutes. Carefully pour in the milk, stirring, and bring the mixture to a boil.
• Cool slightly.
• Place the powdered sugar in a large bowl.
• Pour the hot brown sugar mixture over the powdered sugar. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed until frosting is smooth, 2 to 3 minutes. Use immediately (while warm) to frost cake or the frosting will harden. If it does harden, simply place the pan back over low heat and stir until the frosting softens up.

WALNUT CAKE WITH PENUCHE FROSTING

Steps:

• Grease 1 13x9 inch pan or 2 8-inch cake pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• For the cake, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time. Beat well.
• Add vanilla.
• In separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients.
• Add dry ingredients to sugar mixture, alternately with the milk. Mix well.
• Pour batter into cake pan or pans.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until cake tests done.
• For frosting, boil butter and sugar 2 minutes in microwave oven.
• Add milk. Boil again.
• Beat in sugar and vanilla.
• Make the frosting shortly before the time you want to put it on the cake as it gets harder with time.
• Allow cake to cool slightly before frosting.

APPLESAUCE CAKE WITH PENUCHE FROSTING

Steps:

• Make the cake:
• In a large bowl with an electric mixer cream the butter, add the sugars, a little at a time, and beat the mixture until it is light and fluffy. Beat in the applesauce and the egg. Into the butter mixture sift together the flour, the baking soda, the cinnamon, the nutmeg, and the cloves, stir the mixture until it is combined, and add the vanilla, the oats, and the coated raisins. Stir the batter until it is combined well, divide it between 2 well-buttered 8-inch round cake pans, and bake the cake layers in the middle of a preheated 350°F. oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Turn the layers out onto racks and let them cool completely.
• Make the frosting:
• In a heavy saucepan combine the brown sugar, the butter, the milk, and a pinch of salt, bring the mixture to a boil over moderate heat, stirring until the sugar is dissolved, and cook it, undisturbed, until it registers 234°F. on a candy thermometer. Let the mixture cool to room temperature and whisk it until it is thickened, lightened in color, and beginning to lose its sheen.
• Working quickly, before the frosting begins to harden and crystallize, frost the top of 1 of the cake layers, top it with the other layer, and frost the top and side of the cake. (If the frosting becomes too hard to spread, reheat it over low heat, stirring, until it is of spreading consistency and let it cool.)
• Make pink applesauce:
• In a large heavy saucepan combine the apples, 1/2 cup water, the lemon juice, and the sugar, bring the liquid to a boil, and simmer the mixture, stirring occasionally, for 25 minutes, or until the apples are very tender. Force the mixture through a food mill fitted with the fine disk into a bowl. Serve the applesauce warm or chilled. Makes about 4 cups.

RAISIN SPICE CAKE WITH PENUCHE FROSTING

Steps:

• sift flour with soda, salt and spices -- set aside.
• cream butter, add granulated sugar gradually and beat till fluffy -- add eggs, one at a time, add molasses and beat well.
• stir in applesauce and nuts.gradually blend to sifted dry ingredients --
• pour batter into 3 waxed paper lined and greased 8" round cake pans --
• bake at 350* for 20-25 minutes --
• cool layers -- about 10 minutes and remove from pans -- remove waxed paper and spread with penuche frosting.
• to prepare PENUCHE FROSTING:.
• combine butter, brown sugar and cream in a heavy saucepan, bring to a boil over medium heat.
• remove from heat and gradually stir in powdered sugar till mixture is velvety and very smooth --
• stir in vanilla, nuts and raisins.

SPICE CAKE WITH FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine flour, cinnamon, baking soda, cloves and nutmeg; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. , Pour into two greased 9-in. round baking pans. Bake 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., In a heatproof bowl of a stand mixer, whisk egg whites, sugar, water and cream of tartar until blended. Place over simmering water in a large saucepan over medium heat. Whisking constantly, heat mixture until a thermometer reads 160°, about 2-3 minutes., Remove from heat; add vanilla. With the whisk attachment of a stand mixer, beat on high speed until stiff glossy peaks form, about 7 minutes. Spread frosting between layers and over the top and sides of cake. Store frosted cake, uncovered, in refrigerator.