Tag: cake

Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Icing

Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Icing

This is a fairly basic cream cheese icing except for the brown sugar. 250 ml Cream Cheese 4 oz Butter 1 tbsp caramel sauce 1 cup Brown Sugar 2 cups Icing Sugar 1/4 cup Plain Yogurt Beat the cream cheese and butter until smooth. Spoon 

Lemon Meringue Torte with Mirror Glaze

Lemon Meringue Torte with Mirror Glaze

Lemon Meringue Torte A Torte is dessert made of several layers held together with whipped creams or buttercream icing. This cake is made from several components, baked at different times then put together when cooled, The mousse is very lemony and sharp to offset the 

Apple Cake

Apple Cake

I found this in one of my books, it was hand written and blurry, as most of my recipes tend to be. Just ingredients, no method, temperature, or baking time. I believe I got this while I was working in Antigonish, but I can’t be sure because that was more than 25 years ago.

This a close relation to a carrot cake. It is a very moist cake with more apple than cake.

Apple Cake

1 cup vegetable oil

2 cups sugar

8 eggs

4 cups diced apples

2 cups AP flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp nutmeg

1 tsp salt

1 cup raisins

Beat together the oil, sugar, salt, eggs, and spices.

Mix the flour with the baking powder, Add to the wet ingredients

.Add the apples, and mix until just blended. Pour into a prepared 10 inch springform pan

Bake at 350 F for 30 to 40 minutes or until a tester comes clean

Jelly Roll

Jelly Roll

This was always a staple in our house. My father is almost 90 and he still makes them. A couple tips,(1) do not roll the cloth into the cake. (2.) if you are using a smaller baking sheet or making multiples of the recipe do