Have you got a good cake recipe?

Question

I want make a nice cake from scratch, but I don't mean a simple boring cake, I want something really nice. Got any ideas people?

Answer 1

This is my recipe for red velvet cake:

Ingredients:

    * 1/2 cup butter

    * 1-1/2 cups sugar

    * 2 large eggs

    * 2 Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder

    * 2 oz. red food coloring (2 bottles)

    * 2-1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour (sift it, then measure it)

    * 1/2 tsp. salt

    * 1 cup buttermilk

    * 1 tsp. baking soda

    * 1 Tbsp. white vinegar

Preparation:

   1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9 x 13 pan.

   2. With an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar together until creamy. Beat in eggs.

   3. Stir cocoa powder into red food coloring, then add to the sugar mixture.

   4. Stir flour and salt together in a small bowl. Add one-third of the flour mixture to the batter, then one-third of the buttermilk, and so on, alternating, until all is incorporated into the batter.

   5. Dissolve the baking soda into the vinegar and add that to the batter.

   6. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 30 minutes.

   7. Frost with cream cheese frosting.

Answer 2

Banana Pound Cake

3 teaspoons sugar plus 3 cups sugar, divided

1 cup butter, softened

6 eggs

1 cup mashed ripe banana (about 2 medium)

1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon lemon extract

3 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream

GLAZE:

1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 to 4 teaspoons milk

Grease a 10-in. fluted tube pan. Sprinkle with 3 teaspoons sugar; set aside. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and remaining sugar until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Stir in bananas and extracts. Combine flour and baking soda; add to the creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beating just until combined.

Pour into prepared pan (pan will be full). Bake at 325° for 75-85 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely.

In a small bowl, whisk glaze ingredients until smooth; drizzle over cake. Store in the refrigerator.  

Answer 3

Well, this isn't from scratch, but it is so YUMMY.

Get a Duncan Hines Devil's Food cake mix.

Follow the directions on the side of the box for Chocolate Pound Cake (I think that's what it says, anyway the directions on the side where it says add oil, 4 eggs, instant chocolate pudding, etc.)

This is the very best cake ever.  I make it all the time and everyone thinks its from scratch.  Just frost it with buttercream and wait for the raves!

Answer 4

CARROT CAKE WITH COCONUT CREAM CHEESE

ICING  

The Cake:

2 cups sugar

3 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon

2 cups grated carrots

1-1/3 cups vegetable oil

4 eggs, slighly beaten

1 cup chopped and toasted walnuts or pecans

1 - 20 ounce can crushed pineapple, drained

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon lemon extract

1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Preheat the oven to 350°F.

Grease and flour two bread loaf pans. Combine dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Add carrots, oil and eggs. Beat well, until mixed. Add other ingredients and stir. Put into baking pans.

Bake for 1 hour or until done. Completely cool cakes before frosting.

The Frosting:

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 - 8 ounce cream cheese, softened

1 - 16 ounce box powdered sugar, sifted

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup chopped and toasted walnuts or pecans

1 cup flaked coconut

Combine butter and cream cheese; cream until light and fluffy. Add sugar and vanilla, mixing well. Stir in pecans and coconut. Spread on each cake. Store cakes in the refrigerator.

Note: This cake freezes beautifully. Place on foil covered baking sheet. Freeze until hard. Remove from freezer and wrap in plastic wrap and then in foil. Return to freezer. Unwrap totally and then defrost cake.



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Answer 5

This is my favorite:

From:

http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,176,15919...

GREAT COCONUT CAKE  

1 box yellow cake mix

Mix together:

1 can cream of coconut

1 can Eagle Brand milk

1 lg. container Cool Whip

1 pkg. frozen coconut

Mix cake as directed on box.

Bake in sheet pan.

While cake is still hot, pour mixture of cream of coconut and milk over it.

Punch holes so it will seep through.

Refrigerate until cool.

Top with Cool Whip and sprinkle coconut over it. Keep refrigerated.

Answer 6

what could be more tempting than a baked baileys cheesecake.

so simple to make but yet absolutely delicious and looks great.

ingredients.

3 packs of cream cheese.

tea spoon of vanilla essence

cup of sugar

k**b of butter

cup of baileys irish cream

pack of graham crackers or digestive biscuits depending on what side of the world your on

sour cream

pack of pecan nuts

piece of white and milk chocolate

some chocolate sauce.

2 eggs

start by preheating the oven to 150 degrees celcius.

put the crackers or biscuits into a blender and blend to a fine consistency grate the milk chocolate and add to the biscuits. melt the butter and add to the biscuits and chocolate. give it another quick blend to mix everything up.

grease a collapsable cake tin and add a layer of the biscuit mix to the bottom of the tray, make the layer just over a quarter inch thich, compact it with a flatish spoon.

put this into the fridge for 20 minutes or so.

while waiting for this add the cream cheese to a mixing bowl and add the sugar and grated white chocolate to taste, and give it a good mix. it should taste sweetish

beat the eggs in a seperate bowl and add the baileys and vanilla essence to this.

now add the egg and baileys to the cream cheese dish and mix it through.

put this cream cheese dish on top of the biscuit and smooth out.

put in the oven for about 45 minutes.

take it out and let cool (not in the fridge though)

mix the sour cream up with some sugar and baileys to make a frosting

put this on top of the cheesecake.

decorate it with the pecan nuts around the outside and drizzle the chocolate sauce around the center.

now you got one of the most delicious cakes ever

Answer 7

Blueberry Cream Cheese Pound Cake I

INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)

    * 1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix

    * 1/4 cup white sugar

    * 3 eggs

    * 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, room temperature

    * 1/2 cup vegetable oil

    * 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

    * 1 1/4 cups blueberries

DIRECTIONS

   1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.

   2. In a large bowl, stir together cake mix and sugar. Make a well in the center and pour in eggs, cream cheese, oil and vanilla. Beat on low speed until blended. Scrape bowl, and beat 4 minutes on medium speed. Stir in blueberries. Pour batter into prepared pan.

   3. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

Blueberry Cream Cheese Pound Cake II

INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)

    * 1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix

    * 1 (3.4 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix

    * 1/4 cup white sugar

    * 1/4 cup water

    * 3/4 cup vegetable oil

    * 3 eggs

    * 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, room temperature

    * 1 (16.5 ounce) can blueberries, drained, juice reserved

    *  

    * 1 cup confectioners' sugar

DIRECTIONS

   1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.

   2. In a large bowl, stir together cake mix, pudding mix and sugar. Make a well in the center and pour in water, oil, eggs and cream cheese. Beat on low speed until blended. Scrape bowl, and beat 4 minutes on medium speed. Stir in the blueberries. Pour batter into prepared pan.

   3. Bake in the preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

   4. Make Glaze: In a small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar with 2 tablespoons reserved juice from the blueberries. Drizzle over cooled cake.

Answer 8

Fudge Coca Cola Cake

Ingredients:

1   cup Coca Cola

½  cup Oil

½  cup Unsalted Butter

3   Tbsp. Cocoa Powder

2   cups Flour

2   cups Sugar

½  tsp. Salt

2   each Eggs

½  cup Buttermilk

1   tsp. Baking Soda

1   tsp. Vanilla Extract

*Frosting

½   cup Unsalted Butter

1   Tbsp. Cocoa Powder

6   Tbsp. Heavy Whipping Cream

1   tsp. Vanilla Extract

1   cup Pecans, chopped

1   lb. Powdered Sugar

Method:

1. Grease and flour 13x9-inch Pyrex baking pan. Set aside. Preheat oven to 350F.

2. In medium saucepan, bring Coca-Cola, oil, butter, and cocoa powder to a boil.

3. In a large bowl, mix together the sugar, flour and salt. Pour in the boiling cola-cocoa mixture and beat well. Add the eggs, buttermilk, baking soda, and vanilla and beat well.

4. Pour into prepared pan, and bake for 20-25 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean when poked in to the middle of the cake.

5. FROSTING: In a large saucepan, combine the butter, cocoa powder, and cream and heat until the butter melts. Beat in the remaining ingredients, and spread on the hot cake. Place pan on a rack to cool. Cut cake and serve.