i like red velvet cake, or anything with that cream cheese frosting, and i like cherry pie, and blueberry pie not a fan of apple pie or pumpkin pie
Here's a fancy cake made in Portland that looks like a spider. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/02/06/182083_a183431/snap.html
I make both. Take your pick. The Japanese reads "Welcome home Trailblazers". I made it for their first game back the year they started the seasone with 2 games in Japan vs. Clippers (won both) and then came to Sacramento (won). I have more pics but I don't think we can attach more than five.
crandc you are so cruel. It was tough enough hearing about all the cakes and pies, but to see them too?!?! What is the cake one in the box? I love pies, cherry, peach, banana cream. My mom made the best pies and cobblers. People would pay her to make them for them. Her crust was the best I've eaten and many agreed. My sister and I use to pick black berries and she make pies to die for. For all that what I'll miss the most is my mom's carrot cake. I've never taste any carrot cake close to what my mom made. The icing was the best I've eaten and the cake was the best as well. She also use to make a seven layer cake with a unbelievable icing for my birthday. Which do I like more cake or pie? That's like asking which I need more to inhale or exhale.
The cake in the box was a gold cake with a chocolate mousse filling and ganache topping. (Rice told me it was the best chocolate frosting ever - perhaps because of the slug of cognac.) A friend fluent in Japanese faxed me the writing. Few more - and a warning.
That reminds me of a couple more cakes my mom made really well. Pineapple and pound cake, upside down cake too or is that pound cake? Probably my fav cake is german brown cake. The one with the chocolate/coconut icing. Love that!
The bourbon pound cake was pound cake, obviously. Here are two upside down cakes (pineapple not a good pic, sadly). What did you mom put in carrot cake? I use a recipe from Temple Beth Shalom syangogue Sisterhood, called, I kid you not The Happy Cooker. It has pineapple, which Cooks Illustrated says is a no-no but I like it. But I found a better cream cheese frosting, instead of a load of sugar it has melted white chocolate. It does not taste chocolate-y but is firm enough to need far less added sugar so is not so sugary sweet. Ah yes, German chocolate cake - which is not German at all but was invented by someone whose last name was German who developed a sweet chocolate used in this cake.
I'll have to get back to you with the recipe of the carrot cake and icing. I was thinking about it though, the cake she made me for my birthday wasn't seven layers, the icing was seven minute icing. Have you ever made that? I love it!
Yes, I've made 7 minute icing. It's a variation on meringue. I make angel food when I have a bunch of egg whites left over from custard, ice cream, or cakes that use egg yolks. When I made my niece's Bat Mitzvah cakes, two huge cakes that used only yolks, I also made chocolate angel cake (see pic). Served the purpose of using up egg whites, also the regular cake had butter in it. Observant Jews would not eat a cake made with dairy after a meat meal, but they could eat angel cake which has no dairy.
My cousin sent me my mom's original recipe. If you make it exactly as she says you'll make the best carrot or karrot cake as my mom puts it. I remember cracking walnuts for my mom when I was a kid: She gave me this recipe at my bridal shower in 1975. Your everlovin' cousin, Gail Karrot Cake 3 cups sifted flour 1 and 1/2 cups vegetable oil 2 and 1/2 cups sugar 2 cups grated carrots 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup chopped walnuts 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 cup crushed pineapple (not drained) 1 teaspoon baking soda 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla Mix all dry ingredients together. Add rest of ingredients except nuts (if using electric mixer) and beat thoroughly. In large cake pan (9 x 13) greased and floured, bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees. Karrot Cake Frosting 1 cube butter or margarine 1 box powdered sugar 1 3 oz. cream cheese 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup walnuts Melt butter and put in bowl. Add cheese and mix until creamy. Add sugar, then vanilla. Mix with beater and add nuts at last.
Carrot Cake and those melting cakes (like at Anthony's, but my wife makes them) are really the only things that I'd go out of the way to make & eat... So with your permission, I'm going to steal the recipe and see if my wife can make it for my homecoming.
You mom's carrot cake is similar to mine, with pineapple, but I use 4 eggs and make a frosting with a lot less sugar. BTW, no one has mentioned charlotte - a cake/pie cross. Cake shell filled with a custard or fruit filling. If I have time tonight I'll scan some pics.
Make it exactly like my mom's recipe and you'll taste the best carrot cake you've ever ate. You're so close.
