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Fern Cakes Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Leigh561 / All my dishes 2 years, 3 months ago When I was a kid, I would stop at McKinna's Bakery on the way home from church picking up a dozen or so pastries for my grandmother. These were always my favorite ones. They are very time consuming to make, but to me they are well worth the eff... More Prep:30m Cook:30m Servings:24	Leigh561
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Ingredients

Pastry Shell

6 Cups of flour

2 Cups Crisco

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cram of tartar

1 cup milk

Strawberry Jelly (or any berry flavor you like)

Cake

1 white cake mix (water oil and eggs per box)

2 teaspoons rum or almond flavoring

1 cup finely chopped coconut

1 cup finely chopped walnuts

Icing

1 cup powdered sugar

few tablespoons boiling water

1 tablespoon Crisco

couple of drops of milk

cocoa powder

Directions

Pastry Shell

Mix together all ingredients

roll out like a pie dough

Cut to be about the size of a cupcake shell

mold the dough into cupcake pan that has been lightly sprayed with cooking spray (I like bakers joy for this recipe)

Once all the shells have been placed into the cupcake pans, drop 1/2 teaspoon of jelly into the bottom of each shell

Cake filling

Mix cake mix according to box, adding the above additional ingredients

Spoon cake into the shells with the jelly.

Fill as you would a cupcake, about 3/4 ways full

Bake at 350 for about 30 min

Tops should be a dark golden brown

Allow to cool till the cake feels cool to the touch.

Slip a knife in besides each cake to help lift it out and finish cooling completely

White icing

Mix all icing ingredients together, adding water one tablespoon at a time until the icing is nice and creamy.

If it is too funny, just add powdered sugar to it

Spread icing on each of the cakes and allow the icing to harden

Fern design

With the remaining icing add some cocoa powder to give it a rich chocolate color and taste.

Using a plastic baggie, put icing in bag, snip off a small piece of the corner of baggie.

Pipe a vertical line down the center of the icing

Now place two V's over the chocolate line to make what looks like a tree (fern)

I didn't take the above picture, but it will give you an idea what they should look like.

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catherineh20 1 year, 8 months ago said:
Thanks, have been looking for this recipe, we've always known them as Fern Tarts, no wonder I couldn't find the recipe. Even the Scottish bakeries call them tarts. Dying to try them. The ones in the bakeries are ok but...not great!

minitindel 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Thanks a bunch sweetie it sounds very good saving alot of your recipes ....

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