HomeMy WebLinkAboutChristmastime Cookbook, 1980-11-13, Page 40QUEEN’S CAKE
V2 cup dates
% cup raisins
IV2 cups water
Vi cup butter
1 cup white sugar
IV2 cups flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
Boil dates and raisins in 1 V2 cups water
until 1 cup water remains. Remove fruit.
Cream butter and sugar. Sift dry
ingredients together. Add to creamed
mixture alternately with water. Blend in
egg and vanilla. Add fruit and mix well.
Grease 8” cake pan and line with wax
paper. Bake in oven 350° for 30 min.
Topping
5 tbsp, brown sugar
3 tbsp, butter
2 tbsp, milk
Vi cup coconut
% cup chopped nuts
Mix all ingredients together. Sprinkle
over top of hot cake. Return to oven until
mixture bubbles.
Hattie Snell
Londesboro
WHIPPED CREAM CAKES
1 cup whipping cream
2 eggs
1 cup white sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 */2 cups sifted all purpose flour
2 tsps, baking powder
Vi tsp. salt
2 tbsp, white sugar
Vi tsp. cinnamon
Heat oven to 350° Grease an 8” square
pan. Whip the cream until stiff peaks
form. Add eggs and beat well. Add 1 cup
white sugar and vanilla and beat again.
Sift flour, baking powder and salt
together into mixture and stir to blend.
Pour into nreoared Dan. Rake about ^5
minutes. Remove from oven. Combine 2
tbsp, white sugar and cinnamon and
sprinkle evenly over the top. Cool in pan.
Margaret Spence
Brussels
JELLY POWDER CAKE
1 cake mix, white or lemon
% cups water
4 eggs
1 pkg. lemon jello powder
Put above 4 ingredients into mixing bowl.
Mix all at once beating for 2 minutes.
Add % cup Crisco oil, heat 1 minute
more. Bake in large flat 13x9x2 pan at 350
degrees for 30 minutes or until done. <
Can be served with whipped cream or any
favourite sauce.
Mrs. Ed Regele
#4 Walton,
MY FAVOURITE CHOCOLATE CAKE
1 cup unsifted unsweetened cocoa
2 cups boiling water
Combine mixing with a wire whisk until
smooth. Cool
2% cups sifted all purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 cup butter
2 tsp. soda
Vi tsp. salt
2Vi cups granulated sugar
4 eggs
1 Vi teaspoon vanilla
Sift flour with soda, salt and baking
power. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and lightly flour 3-9x1 Vi in layer
pans. 1 put waxed paper in too. In a large
bowl, beat at high speed, butter, sugar,
eggs and vanilla until light (5 minutes).
At low speed beat in flour mixture
(fourths) alternately with cocoa mixture
(in thirds) beginning and ending with
flour. Do not overbeat
Mrs. Marie McIntosh
R.R. 5 Brussels
A REAL GOOD CAKE RECIPE
1‘Zz cups boiling water
1% cups oatmeal
1 cup chopped dates
Vi cup margarine
1 cup white sugar
Vi cup molasses
2 eggs
1 % cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
Vi tsp. nutmeg
Method-Pour boiling water over oatmeal,
dates and margarine and let stand 20
min. Then add sugar, molasses and eggs.
Mix dry ingredients then mix together.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35 min. in 9x13
pan.
Frosting
Vi cups butter
Vi cup brown sugar
2 tbsp, milk*Vi cup cocoanut or nuts
Mix and put on hot cake then put under
broiler for a few minutes.
No Name
Belgrave
ANGEL FOOD CAKE ICING
Grate rind from 2 oranges
1 c. of orange juice
Vi c. sugar
Bring juice and sugar to boiling point.
Thicken to lemon pie filling thickness
with cornstarch. Remove from heat and
add rind. Let cool. Prepare 1 pkg. of
Dream Whip or 2 c. whip cream and fold
in cooled orange mixture.
Joyce Vivian
R.R.#2 Staffa
HAWAIIAN DREAM CAKE
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Cream Vi cup butter or margarine
Blend in
Vi cup light brown sugar
Vi tsp. vanilla
Mix in thoroughly
1 Vi cups pastry flour
Pressinto ungreased 9” square pan. Bake
in 375 degree oven for about 15 minutes.
Let cool 5 min. Spread with
1 cup well drained crushed pineapple
Beat together:
Vi cup melted butter or margarine
Vi cup granulated sugar
* egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup shredded cocoanut
Spread cocoanut mixture over pine
apple. Return to oven and continue
baking for about 30 min. Cool in pan and
cut in squares. Yields 20 squares.
Mrs. Lewis Stonehouse
Belgrave
RAINBOW CAKE
1 package (2 layer size) yellow cake mix
1 cup sour cream
Vi cup water
2 eggs
1 package jello brand cherry, lime,
strawberry or raspberry flavour
Combine cake mix, sour cream, water,
eggs in large bowl. Beat 2 mins, at
medium speed until creamy, spoon Vi of
batter into well greased and floured 10
inch tube pan. Spread remaining batter
over gelatin to cover. Bake at 350 for 45
minutes until cake springs back when
lightly pressed. Cool inpan 5 minutes.
Remove from pan, coolon rack. Sprinkle
with confectioner’s sugar if desired.
Mrs. Frank Smale
Seaforth
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