Miscellaneous Cake
From mommyth 12 years ago
- ~ 1 hour to make
- Serves 20?
My mother-in-law shared her basic cake recipe when I married. It's my basic go-to recipe. Endlessly versatile. Original recipe makes a loaf cake: I multiplied the ingredients by half to sheet cake proportions. Read more For a recent cake, I added: • 1 pkg chocolate chips – added to flour & cocoa before you add the wet ingredients • 1 cup cocoa • Liquid: 3Tbsp instant coffee dissolved in a very generous glug of brandy (you can use amaretto, choc. liqueur, sweet wine – whatever), and whatever fruit juice was in the fridge (cherry-pear last night). Because the batter seemed thick, I added ~ ¼ - 1/3 cup juice • Adjust quantity of oil: because I added the cocoa, I increased the oil to ~ 1 cup. Should be fine with the ¾ cup if you want to keep the fat down. • Adjust quantity of sugar: Increased to perhaps 2 ½ cups See less
Ingredients
- 3 cups flour shopping list
- 2 1/4 cup sugar shopping list
- 3 tsp baking powder shopping list
- a pinch of salt shopping list
- scant 3/4 cup oil shopping list
- 3 eggs – beaten or not shopping list
- 1 1/8 cup fruit juice/soy milk (or other liquid - even tea or strong coffee) shopping list
- 1-1.5 tsp vanilla shopping list
How to make it
- 1. Combine dry ingredients.
- 2. Add wet ingredients.
- 3. Line a large pan with parchment to make it easier to transfer the cake and/or clean the pan.
- 4. Bake for 45- 50 minutes at 350 F.
- 5. Test doneness with a toothpick/knife.
- I doubled the original recipe to fill a sheet cake pan. Good basic cake recipe. One bowl preparation - easy to improvise on. I've added:
- • mashed bananas
- • chopped fruit
- • brandy
- • instant coffee - maybe 1-3 tsp, dissolved in a little hot water...
- • a bag of chocolate chips (white, dark - whatever) - the chips tend to sink, so add them to the flour and mix to coat them before you add the rest of the ingredients.
- • banana and choc. chips.
- • 1-1.5 tsp of cinnamon
- • lemon juice
- • glazed with coffee or lemon glaze (add liquid to powdered sugar)
- • cocoa and choc chips - (if you use cocoa, increase the amount of oil to 1 cup, increase the sugar).
- • crumb topping - involves combining margarine, flour, brown sugar, white sugar, a little salt, cinnamon, and maybe other spices, (and possibly baking soda) then distributing over the top. So a Google for proportions...
- • I've made the cake with whole wheat flour and brown sugar...
- • You could probably use applesauce or pureed banana instead of oil…
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