Chocolate Cake

CHOCOLATE CAKE 

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

6 tablespoons margarine
2 eggs
1 1/4 cups flour
1 1/4 cups baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cups + 2 tablespoons sugar
3/4 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cups milk (1/2 cup milk + 1/2 cup water + 2 tablespoons Hershey's Cocoa) use 3/4 cups of mixture

Method

1.          Preheat oven at 350°.

2.          Grease and flour a 6 inch round pan

3.          Sift flour with baking powder; set aside.

4.          Cream sugar and butter.

5.          Add eggs and vanilla.

6.          Add flour mixture and chocolate milk mixture, alternately.

7.          Pour cake mixture into prepared pan.

8.          Bake about 30 minutes or until done when a cake tester is inserted and comes out clean

9.          Cool on cooling wire rack for a few minutes (approximately 10 minutes) and remove from pan on cake dish.  Continue to cool.

10.       Frost or Icing Optional

Cake made and photography by ShirleyAnn Pearman

Recipe derived from this posting with a decrease in ingredients http://recipemarketing.blogspot.com/2018/12/vanilla-plain-cake.html and Hershey's Cocoa added.

Homemade Apple Pastries

HOMEMADE APPLE PASTRIES

Homemade Apple Pastries 

Recipe 

Ingredients 

1 large apple (peeled and sliced; tossed in sugar and cinnamon) 

Pastry 

Ingredients 

1 cup flour 
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons shortening 
2 - 3 tablespoons cold water


Method

SPOON flour into measuring cup and level.   Mix flour and salt in medium bowl.  Cut in Crisco using pastry blender until all flour is blended in to form peas-size chunks.   Sprinkle with water, one tablespoon at a time.   Toss lightly with fork until dough will form a ball.   Divide dough in half, if making double crust.  Press between hands form one or two  5 to 6 inch pancakes.

FLOUR dough lightly.  Roll into circle between sheets of waxed paper on damped countertop.  Peel off top sheet.   For single crust, trim one inch larger than inverted 9 inch pie plate.  Flip into pie plate.  Remove other sheet and press pastry to fit.   Fold edge under.   Flute.  For double crust,  flour each half of dough lightly.  Roll into circles between sheets of waxed paper on dampened countertop.   Peel off top sheet for bottom crust.  Transfer bottom crust to pie plate.  Remove other sheet and press pastry to fit.   Trim edge even with pie plate.   Add desired filling to unbaked pie crust. Remove top sheet from top crust.  Lift top crust onto filling pie.   Remove the other sheet.   Trim to 1/2- inch  round edge of pie plate.  Fold top edge under bottom crust.  Flute.  Cut slits in top crust to allow steam to escape.

BAKE according to specific recipe instructions.
For single baked pie shell,  heat oven to 425 degrees.   Thoroughly prick bottom and sides with fork (50 times)  to prevent shrinking.   Bake at 425 degrees for $10 to 15 minutes or until lightly browned.   For recipe calling for unbaked pie shell, follow baking directions given in that recipe.

Original Recipe by Crisco.
However this recipe above has been cut in half for this particular post. 

Optional:  Pastries 
Cut into desired sized squares and fill with apple mixtures and dot with a little butter.  Fold and seal.  Press edges with folk.  Prick top with folk . Sprinkle top with sugar and cinnamon.

OTHER APPLE PASTRY RECIPES

http://recipemarketing.blogspot.com/2012/03/old-fashioned-apple-pie.html
http://recipemarketing.blogspot.com/2017/07/apple-pie.html
http://recipemarketing.blogspot.com/2013/10/mini-apple-pie.html
http://recipemarketing.blogspot.com/2013/03/apple-tarts.html
https://recipemarketing.blogspot.com/2015/12/apple-turnovers.html

Raisin Bread

RAISIN BREAD 

RAISIN BUNS

Raisin Bread

Ingredients

2 cups flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1/2 cup raisins
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons shortening
1 package rapid yeast
1/4 cup warm water
1/4 cup warm water
1/4 cup warm milk

Method

Dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup of water with a pinch sugar.

Combine all dry ingredients, along with raisins.  Cut in butter and shortening until pea side approximately.

Make a well in center and add liquid mixtures to bring together and knead.

Set aside cover and allow to rise for approximately 1 hour.

Punch down and loaf out 3/4 of dough for a greased 4 x 8 loaf pan.  Remainder dough, loaf out into 3 bun size buns.

Allow to rise a further 40 minutes.

Bake in a preheated oven of 375 degrees for approximately 20 to 30 minutes.

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Fruit Cake And Plain Cake

H A P P Y   M O T H E R ' S   D A Y

FRUIT CAKE AND PLAIN CAKE 

ALBUM

Recipe at 

http://recipemarketing.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-only-great-pound-cake.html

The cakes in the above pictures were made during the weeks Bermuda was in Lockdown/Curfew Coronavirus, Covid-19, Pandemic of April 2020.  

The original recipe is located at the above link and this is the recipe made in a smaller amount of ingredients.

Plain Cake 

Ingredients

2 tablespoons shortening 

1/4 cup butter 

3/4 cup sugar

2 eggs

3/4 cups + 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour

1/8 teaspoon baking powder 

1/4 cup milk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Method

1.                  Cream together shortening, butter and sugar.

2.                  Add eggs, beating well.

3.                  Sift flour and baking powder and add dry ingredients and milk alternately to butter mixture, beginning and ending with flour.

4.                  Add vanilla flavoring.

5.                  Pour into a 6 inch greased and floured tube pan.

6.                  Bake at 300 degrees for 30 to 45 minutes.  Test with toothpick for doneness. (Do not open door during baking.)

7.                  Right before cake should be done, bring water and sugar to a rolling boil.  Remove from heat and add almond extract.  While cake is still in pan, pour the glaze over cake and let stand about 30 minutes before removing from pan.

Fruit Cake was made with the same recipe but alternately added with the flour and milk.   Fruit added to cake mixture is soaked mixed peel and raisins.  Approximate amount used is 1/4 - 1/2 cup in combination of soaked mixed peel and raisins.  Fruit in this cake was soaked in cranberry juice, but can be soaked in your choice of any juice or rum from 1 hour to several hours or days.

Glaze is optional.

Glaze:

1/4 cup sugar

1 tablespoon water

1/8 teaspoon almond extract

Cakes made by ShirleyAnn Pearman.

This recipe was obtained by a Mini Cookbook while on a travel vacation while a young adult with my family in Dallas, Texas from a tourist gift shop.  I liked the recipe, because it was like a recipe already being used within my family which is the traditional pound cake with the alternate milk method. 

FRUIT CAKE AND PLAIN CAKE
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Pizza Rolls

PIZZA ROLLS

Recipe

Other Pizza Postings

Homemade Pizza Rolls

http://recipemarketing.blogspot.com/2017/06/homemade-pizza-rolls.html

Homemade Pizza Dough

http://recipemarketing.blogspot.com/2013/06/homemade-pizza-dough.html

Cheese Pizza Rolls And Sausage Rolls

http://recipemarketing.blogspot.com/2014/11/cheese-pizza-rolls-and-sausage-rolls.html

Pizza Dough Breakfast With Scrambled Egg

http://recipemarketing.blogspot.com/2017/11/pizza-dough-breakfast-with-scrambled.html

Coffee Rolls Made With Pizza Dough

https://recipemarketing.blogspot.com/2018/09/coffee-rolls-made-with-pizza-dough.html

Orange Pizza Dough Buns

https://recipemarketing.blogspot.com/2017/12/orange-pizza-dough-buns.html