Brown Velvet Cake with Fluffy White Frosting
From lunasea 17 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This is a recipe from Helen Exum's Cookbook (1982), The Story of a Southern City's Changing Lifestyle, with Recipes for Busy Cooks. Text Excerpt: "The Brown Velvet Cake is the single most requested baking soda recipe of all time. Read more Any good cook knows that a chocolate cake made with brown sugar and with baking soda is going to be moist and light. This is no exception. Simply delicious." The Fluffy White Frosting here is the same as Seven Minute Frosting. Enjoy. See less
Ingredients
- Cake: shopping list
- 2 cups sifted cake flour shopping list
- 1 teaspoon baking soda shopping list
- 3/4 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups firmly packed light brown sugar shopping list
- 2 eggs shopping list
- 3 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted shopping list
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk shopping list
- 1 teaspoon vanilla shopping list
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- Fluffy White Frosting: shopping list
- 2 egg whites shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups sugar shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar shopping list
- 1/3 cup cold water shopping list
- 1 teaspoon vanilla shopping list
How to make it
- Cake Instructions:
- Sift together flour, baking soda and salt.
- Using an electric mixer, beat shortening and sugar in large bowl.
- Beat in eggs until mixture is very light and fluffy; stir in chocolate.
- Combine milk and vanilla.
- Alternately add dry ingredients and liquid to beaten egg mixture, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
- After each addition, beat until smooth.
- Pour into 2 greased and floured 9-inch layer cake pans.
- Bake in 350 F oven for 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove from pan and cool thoroughly on rack.
- Spread Fluffy White Frosting between layers and on sides and top of cake.
- Makes one 9-inch layer cake.
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- Frosting Instructions:
- Mix all ingredients except vanilla in the top of a double boiler and set over boiling water.
- Beat constantly with rotary or electric beater until stiff peaks form, 4 to 7 minutes.
- Take off heat and add vanilla.
- Beat until of good spreading consistency.
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- Cake serves 12.
The Rating
Reviewed by 12 people-
Vickie...You are so right! Not enough people know about the brown sugar and baking soda thing. The most wonderful, moist chocolate cakes are made with brown sugar, and those made with buttermilk as well.
Thanks...going to print this one.
BI...more
pinkpasta
in Upstate loved it
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Gosh ! Beautiful !!!!
cholena
in Food World loved it
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Hey ,Vickie this cake with it's Fluffy White Frosting is oh so delicious. I should have two Birthday cakes this year. This one just for me and another for the guest.
High 5
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