Mom's Recipes: Cakes

Carrot Cake

• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup Wesson oil (*Pour oil over sugar & let stand while preparing other ingredients)
• 3 egg yolks, beaten & mixed with sugar & oil (reserve egg whites)
• 1 1/2 cup flour
• 1 Tbsp baking powder
• 2 1/2 Tbsp hot water
• 1/w tsp soda in cool water
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 2 large grated carrots (1 cup)
• 1 cup nuts

egg whites into the mixture of the rest of the ingredients. Bake 25-30 min. at 350.

Icing:

• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 Tbsp flour
• 1/2 cup evaporated milk
• 1/4 cup cold water
• 1/2 stick butter
• 1 (tsp?) vanilla

Put mixture on cake as soon as it is taken out of the oven. Put under the broiler until it bubles good or browns a little.

Eggnog Pound Cake

• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 3 cups sugar
• 6 eggs
• 3 cups flour
• 1 cup eggnog
• 1 tsp lemon flavoring
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 tsp coconut flavoring
• chopped pecans (optional)

Cream butter and shortening; gradually add sugar. Beat well. Add eggs, beating after each addition. Add flour to creamed mixture alternately with eggnog. Mix until blended. Stir in flavorings. Pour batter into a greased bundt pan. Bake at 325 for 1 1/2 hours or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then remove and cool on wire rack.

Fig Cake

• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp slat
• 1 tsp soda
• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup cooking oil
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup fig preserves
• 1/2 Tbsp cinnamon
• 1/2 Tbsp cloves
• 1/2 Tbsp nutmeg
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 cup nuts
• 1 Tbsp vanilla

Sift together dry ingredients & add oil. Beat and add eggs, then add buttermilk, vanilla, fig preserves, and nuts. Bake 325 for 1.5 hours.

Sauce:

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 Tbsp corn syrup
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/2 stick oleo
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1/4 tsp soda

Mix & boil for 3 minutes.

Coke Cake

• 2 sticks margarine
• 2 cup sugar
• 3 Tbsp cocoa
• 1 cup coke
• 2 eggs
• 2 cup flour, sifted then measured
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1 tsp soda
• 2 cup mini marshmallows

Cream margarine and sugar thoroughly. Add eggs 1 at a time and beat well after each. Mix cocoa and coke in saucepan and bring to boil. Remove and add to creamed mixture. Add vanilla. Combine buttermilk and soda and add to cream mixture, alternately with the flour beginning and ending with flour. Put the batter, which will be thin, in a well-greased and floured 9x13" pan. Put marshmallows on top. Bake at 350 for 45-50 minutes. Leave cake in pan and ice while hot.

• 1/2 cup margarine
• 3 Tbsp cocoa
• 6 Tbsp coke
• 1 box powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup chopped nuts (pecans)

Put margarine, cocoa, and coke in saucepan and bring to boil. Remove from heat and add powdered sugar and vanilla and beat well. Add nuts. Ice cake and cut into squares.

Coconut Cake

NOTE:Preparation needs to start sseveral days in advance.

• 1 Box Duncan Hines yellow butter cake mix
• 24 oz. frozen coconut
• 2 cups sour cream
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 small container of Cool Whip

Mix cake mix according to instructions (makes 2 layers) Let it cool completely.

Mix coconut, sour cream, & sugar. Refrigerate overnight.

Slice the two layers of cake to make 4 layers.

Reserve 1 cup of the mixture. Spread the remaining mixture between the layers & stack. Mix the reserved cup of mixture with 1 small carton of cool & put on the top and sides of the cake.

Store in the refrigerator 2-3 days.