cake |

April 2024
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

Tag Archive for cake

Pistachio Pudding Cake

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Renee Spindle

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day here’s a great dessert you can whip up for the cake lovers in your family. I posted this recipe last summer, and thought this would be a great time to share it again.

This cake recipe is a yummy little recipe that my Mom has made for me over the years for my birthday. It’s one of the top 5 moist cakes around. I imagine that you could use other flavors of cake mix and pudding mix to change it up, but my favorite has always been the pistachio flavor. Not everyone loves the pistachio flavor like I do, but I have to say everyone at my house tried it and liked it.

For the Cake:

1 box pineapple or lemon flavored cake mix
1 30z box of pistachio instant pudding
4 eggs
½ c. vegetable oil
1 c. cold water

Mix all of the ingredients well and pour into your favorite angel food or bundt pan. Grease the pan first. Bake at 350º for 5o minutes. Let this cool on a wire rack, and then remove from the pan on to a plate for frosting and serving. If you have the time, refrigerate the cake overnight before frosting. This will keep the cake really, really moist.

Baked Cake – Cooling

For the Frosting:

1 3oz. box of pistachio instant pudding
1 pkg of Dream Whip
1¼ cups of milk

Beat all of the ingredients well. The frosting mixture should form small peaks, just like a whip cream style frosting. Frost the cooled cake and refrigerate or serve immediately for your eating pleasure.

And don’t forget the milk or coffee to go along with it. This is a great summer time cake. The frosting is light, and the cake is moist. This was a welcome home treat for my Travel Man, and it did not last long. A great recipe to pass along. Thanks Mom!

No comments Posted in Food, Recipes

Have you ever Made Frosting with Flour?

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Renee Spindle

I realized this week that I have neglected to post any recipes recently. This is probably due to the party planning time, and actual parties in session over the past few weekends. There is a recipe I have been meaning to share with everyone for a while now. My Mom has a time-honored recipe for the best tasting frosting ever.

In our house this recipe is called “The Flour Frosting” recipe, and it goes something like this:

Ingredients:

1 Cup Milk
1/4 Cup Flour
1/2 lb Margarine or Butter, softened
1 Cup Sugar
2 Tsp. Vanilla

Directions

Mix the milk and flour together in a small saucepan on the stove. Cook on medium heat stirring constantly until thickened. Cool this mixture completely in the fridge.
Beat the sugar and margarine together until creamy. This is a critical step, the butter and sugar must be smooth and creamy in order for the frosting texture to be smooth and creamy. There can be nothing grainy going on with the butter and sugar. If this happens the frosting will look separated, and not taste very creamy.
Add the cooled flour mixture to the butter and sugar, along with the vanilla.
Beat until fluffy, and frost your cake!

This frosting is very creamy and extremely delicious, just a little warning. It is not really the variety of frosting that you can do a lot of serious Wilton style decorating with. But you will not be disappointed in the flavor and pure yummyness that this frosting delivers.

These are my brothers’ birthday cakes from his last two birthdays, both covered with flour frosting. This frosting is his favorite and he always requests it for his cakes. It is one of my all time favorites too.

Yesterday I found a recipe similar to my Mom’s on the Tasty Kitchen. This recipe is called, That’s the Best Frosting I’ve Ever Had. This is quite similar to my Mom’s recipe, and goes into some additional detail on the mixing directions.

If you are making your someone special a delicious Valentine’s Day treat, try this recipe out. If you have some cupcakes or a cake to bake this week, try this recipe out. If you have some graham crackers lying around, and some of this frosting leftover you can put them together for a delicious treat. You will not be disappointed. Happy baking everyone.

3 comments Posted in Baking, Family, Food, Recipes

Butter Pecan Birthday Cake

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Renee Spindle

This is a birthday cake recipe post from a couple of years ago. It was a delightful recipe and worth sharing with you again.

I thought I would put up a recipe post today, just for the mere fact that this cake was so delectable.

My niece, Mary, and my Mom usually celebrate their birthday’s together with the family, since they’re within a week of each other. This year my brother hosted the party and I was in charge of the cake baking.

Mary found this recipe for Butter Pecan Cake, on www.justapinch.com, and put in a birthday request to her Auntie.

First the batter was mixed all together. Very sugary, and buttery.

While the batter was in process I toasted 1-1/2 cups of pecans with real butter. They made the kitchen smell wonderful.

Once the cake was baked and cooled the assembly with the buttercream frosting could begin.

Toasted pecans in the middle

The cakes themselves turned out just a skosh dry, and that was probably from my oven. But with the frosting, and toasted pecans in the middle and on top of the cake, the flavor was amazing.

Here’s the finished product which when served with french vanilla ice cream was quite a treat.