At our church, one Friday a month we get together and have a hymn sing So this last month, we went and it was also our Dad's birthday. I decided to make a cake to bring along to celebrate his birthday. It started out like a normal cake, although I had a few problems when it came to mixing it together. I thought I had a big enough bowl but ended up throwing flour everywhere:) After that episode I put the batter into the pans and in the oven. Well they cooked, and I took the opportunity to get in some violin practice. Beep!Beep! the timer goes off, I go check on them and they look perfectly golden brown and they rose very nicely except one thing, the all cooked at an angle! Our oven has been being moved due to us putting in new counter tops so we did not realize that the oven was uneven. OK, that's fine I will just even them out and make sure I put more frosting on the side that has less batter. Next I let them cool. After the cooling process, I went to go take them out of the pans and all 3 had also cooked unevenly. One side was brown, and the other not quite so much. Carefully removing them from the pan, they all had 1 side fall off! Yikes, what else could go wrong! I finely got the frosting put together after again throwing powdered sugar all over the kitchen:) I then started the icing process. Boy did that take some engineering. Now we are ready to go I put the cake into our cake carrier, and then placed it in the car. Not thinking that where we would be driving to, would be down some pretty swervy roads:) We got to our friends house, open the back door to the van to find my lovely cake mutilated! As we were driving the cake had slammed up against the cake carriers' lid and made half the icing fall off. So much for my pretty cake! Even though it didn't look good everyone said it tasted great!
"Not your average "
Yellow Cake with Chocolate Buttercream
3 1/2 c. flour
2 1/2 c. sugar
1 3/4 c. shortening
1 1/4 c. milk
3 tsp. baking powder
3 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
5 eggs
Heat oven to 350. Grease and flour 3 round 9 inch pans, 9x11/2 inches. Mix all ingredients in very large bowl with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl occasionally. Beat on medium speed 2 min. scraping bowl occasionally. Pour into pans evenly. Bake 30-35 min. or until golden brown and toothpick comes out clean. Cool 10 min. remove from pans. Prepare Chocolate Buttercream(recipe below) and fill layers and frost top and side of cake.
Serves: 16 very large pieces of cake.
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
5 1/3 c. powdered sugar
1 c. baking cocoa
3/4 c. butter softened
2/3 c. milk
2 tsp. vanilla
Beat all ingredients until smooth and spreadable.
