Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Recipe: Peanut Butter Cake Bars
9:32 AM
2/3 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar1 cup packed brown sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 package (11 1/2 oz) milk chocolate chips
1. In a large bowl, cream the butter, peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture. Stir in chocolate chips.
2. Spread into a greased 13 x 9 inch baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack. Cut into bars.
Tips/Tricks/Notes
This recipe has a great peanut buttery taste and is nice and light for a cake! I will note, it is very crumbly, so watch for the mess! Also, it ended up double the thickness of the original recipe pictures. It's a perfect example of why I take my own pictures! The next time I do this recipe I may also turn down my oven slightly, but I have come to realize my oven seems to get hotter then most others. I have had to lower the temperature for almost every recipe I have done! The only other thing, I used semi-sweet chocolate chips instead of milk chocolate because that is what I had on hand!
Recommendation: Try crunchy peanut butter versus smooth!
The picture seen above is an actual picture I took of my completed cake, it is not taken from the internet or played with in anyway.
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Monday, February 1, 2010
Recipe: Vanilla Lemon Cake
Vanilla Lemon Cake
The picture seen above is an actual picture I took of my completed cake, it is not taken from the internet or played with in anyway.
Vanilla Cake
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 3/4 tsp baking powder
2/3 cup milk
Other Ingredients
Shirriff lemon pie filling or lemon pie filling of choice
2 340g cans of vanilla icing
Vanilla Cake Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease an 8 x 2 inch round cake pan.
2. In a medium bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine flour and baking powder, add to the creamed mixture and mix WELL. Finally stir in the milk until batter is smooth. Pour or spoon batter into the prepared pan.
3. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven. Cake is done when tooth pick or knife is inserted through the center and it comes out clean.
Lemon Cake Directions:
1. Prepare 2 cakes as per the above directions; one for the bottom layer, and one for the top layer. Remove from pans and place on wire rack to cool. Cool completely!
2. Prepare lemon filling as per instructions and place aside to let cool slightly.
3. Once cakes are cooled completely use a knife to gently even tops of both cakes. Ideally both cakes should be as flat and level as possible. Place one cake on flat serving plate or cake catty. Spoon lemon filing on to the top of this layer; smooth evenly across top making sure to not let any flow over edges. Place second cake gently on top of lemon filling.
4. Using vanilla icing, ice the sides and top of cake. Cover and keep in cool place until ready to serve.
Tips/Tricks/Notes
This cake was a BIG hit and I will definitely be making it again. I also can't wait to try it with different fruit fillings, so if you maybe don't like lemon, try it with raspberry, blueberry, lime... or just use vanilla icing for the middle!
I had to make a few adjustments to the original recipe for the vanilla cake that I found. First, I had to adjust the amount of milk in the recipe. It was only 1/2 a cup, I upped that to 2/3 to make the cake more moist. Second, the temperature for the oven was too high. It was originally 350 degrees. When I first did this recipe at this temp I had to discard the cake as the outside was burnt and the inside had not yet cooked. My last tip is when pouring the batter into the pan make sure to level it out very well.
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