Anyone have a really easy cake recipie?!
Anyone have a really easy cake recipie?
The thing is, it can't have coco powder, sweetened or otherwise.
Additional Details3 days ago
OK, it needs to be made from scratch. I wanna make a cake for my dad, but I have no cake mix. I have very few ingredients, but I really wanna make him a cake.
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3 days ago
OK, it needs to be made from scratch. I wanna make a cake for my dad, but I have no cake mix. I have very few ingredients, but I really wanna make him a cake.
Crostata
To make a crostata you will need to begin with the pasta frolla. The following recipe is pretty much standard:
2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
2/3 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 egg and 1 yolk
The grated zest of a half a lemon or a quarter of an orange
Mix the flour and sugar; cream the butter. Combine the ingredients, handling them as little as possible to keep the butter from melting (a pastry blender makes this easier). If it's more convenient for you to make the dough a day ahead, do so because it improves with age; it should in any case rest for at least an hour.
Once the dough has rested, butter a flat-bottomed pan about 12 inches across (if you have one elegant enough to double as a serving dish, use it), and preheat your oven to 350 F (175 C). Roll the dough out somewhere between a quarter and a half inch thick; work quickly, without working the dough overmuch lest it become crumbly upon baking. Set aside the cuttings to make decorative strips (if you're making a jam crostata) or shape them into fanciful cookie shapes.
To make jam crostata:
2 cups good quality fruit jam, such as strawberry, raspberry, or apricots ( I suggest apricots ). Baking the jam obviously concentrates it; therefore, if it's quite thick, heat it in a pan with a little water to dilute it. Also, if the jam's very sweet to begin with, the crostata will be cloyingly so; in this case heat it over the stove and stir in lemon juice to taste to temper the sweetness. Spread jam on the dough in the pan. Reroll the cuttings, cut the sheet into half-inch strips with a serrated pastry wheel, and lay the strips in a crosshatch pattern over the jam. When you've finished laying out your strips of dough, lay a thin ring of dough around the border of the crostata and tamp it down with a fork to pattern the crostata's rim.
Bake the crostata for about 20 minutes, or until the dough begins to brown. Do not let it overbake, or the pasta frolla will become hard as stone, and the jam will become as sticky as glue. A friend of mine's mother once discovered she had overbaked a crostata and told everyone not to eat it. But his grandfather wouldn't listen. Conversation came to a halt when he returned his slice, with his dentures firmly embedded in it, to his plate
Here there is an imagine of crotstata that may help you cooking it
http://www.basketediabete.it/crostata.jp...
I suggest people only italian recipes because I live in Italy. Crostata is a very easy recipe typical of the region in which I live: Liguria.
plain label packet mix
easy as
Neiman Marcus Cake
INGREDIENTS
1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
4 eggs
1/2 cup butter
8 ounces cream cheese
4 cups confectioners' sugar
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 13x9 inch baking pan. Combine the yellow cake mix, 2 of the eggs, and the butter or margarine mix well. The batter should be stiff. Spread the batter into the prepared pan. Combine the cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and the remaining 2 eggs. Mix well and pour over the top of the cake batter. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 35 minutes.
Note: Recipe is not an official Neiman Marcus recipe.
Genoise Cake
This simple, delicious cake recipe is from France. It's classic, versatile, and buttery.
INGREDIENTS:
* 1/2 cup butter, softened
* 1/2 cup sugar
* 2 eggs
* 1 cup flour
* 1./2 tsp. baking powder
* 1/2 tsp. vanilla
PREPARATION:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs at high speed until very light and fluffy. Sift together flour and baking powder, then fold into batter.
Stir in vanilla. Pour batter into a buttered 8" square cake pan and bake at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes, until light golden brown, and cake begins to pull away from sides of pan.
White Butter Cake:
1 3/4 cups (175 grams) sifted cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup (200 grams) granulated white sugar, divided
2 large eggs, separated
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup (120 ml) milk
1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
White Butter Cake: While eggs are still cold separate the eggs, placing the yolks in one bowl and the whites in another bowl. Cover the two bowls with plastic wrap and allow the eggs to come to room temperature before using (about 30 minutes).
In a mixing bowl sift or whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
In bowl of electric mixer, beat the butter until soft (about 1-2 minutes). Add 3/4 cup (150 grams) of the sugar and beat until light and fluffy (about 2-3 minutes). Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating after each addition. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the vanilla extract and beat until combined.
With the mixer on low speed, alternately add the flour mixture and milk, in three additions, beginning and ending with the flour.
In a clean bowl of your electric mixer, with the whisk attachment, beat the egg whites until foamy. Add the cream of tartar and continue beating until soft peaks form. Gradually add the remaining 1/4 cup (50 grams) of sugar and continue to beat until stiff peaks form. With a rubber spatula gently fold a little of the whites into the batter to lighten it, and then fold in the remaining whites until combined. Do not over mix the batter or it will deflate.
Divide the batter evenly between the two prepared pans and smooth the tops with an offset spatula or the back of a spoon. Bake in the preheated oven for approximately 20 - 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
http://joyofbaking.com/whitecake.html...
Sounds like you can only make tortillas from your information of what you have.
Phone a bakery and pay the $$$$
FUDGE CAKE
2 tablespoons butter
2 eggs separated
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup sugar for meringue
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 tablespoons melted chocolate
2 teaspoons royal baking powder
1 1/2 cups milk
1 cup nuts, cut up
Cream butter and sugar well
Ad egg yolks and melted chocolate
Sift together dry ingredients and add alternatively with milk.
Add extract and nuts.
Make a meringue of egg whites and sugar and stir into mixture
Pour into greased sandwich tins and bake in 150 degrees celsius oven for 30 to 40 minutes.
Sandwich together and decorate with chocolate icing and nuts.