Jamaican Spice Cake

Cream butter w sugar. Add yolks and molasses. Dissolve soda in 1T water and add. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately w rum to butter mix. Beat whites until softly peaked and fold into batter. Pour into greased 9x9x2 pan and bake at 350 for 50 min. Cool 10 min before shaking out. Sift…

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Icebox Cake, Chocolate Raspberry Serves 8​

Lightly coat a 9- x 5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray. Line with parchment paper, making sure all sides are fully covered and leaving a 2-inch overhang on all sides.Fold softened ice cream and sorbet together in a large bowl until sorbet is just streaked through ice cream but not quite swirled, 2 to 3…

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Icebox Cake, Chocolate Raspberry Serves 1

For one serving: Beat cream w sugar and vanilla in small deep bowl w electric mixer till it just holds stiff peaks. Spread 1 heaping tsp cream onto each of 4 wafers. Arrange enough raspberries side by side (as close as possible) on 1 cream-topped wafer to form an even layer. Stack 2 cream-topped wafers…

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Hootenholler Whiskey Cake

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs. Sift dry ingredients together and add to butter alternately w milk. Put baking soda into molasses and add to first mix. Add fruit, nuts and bourbon. Pour into greased and floured loaf pan and bake at 300 for 2 hours. (Keeps forever, wrapped in foil in refrigerator) Butter 0.5cSugar…

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​German Chocolate Cake

Melt chocolate in boiling water. Cool. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add yolks one at a time, and beat well after each. Add chocolate and vanilla. Mix well. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately w buttermilk to chocolate mix until smooth. Fold in whites. Pour into 3 deep 8- or 9″ layer pans,…

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Fyrste Kake Serves 8

Cream butter w .75 c. sugar. Add 3 yolks. Stir in 2.5 c flour and baking powder. Add 1 tsp almond extract. Spread all but .5 c dough over bottom of 9″ greased cake pan. Beat whites until frothy and add 1 c sugar, beating till stiff. Fold in nuts and .5 tsp extract. Spread…

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Creole Cake

Preheat oven to 325. In large mixing bowl, whisk together the sugar, eggs, oil and buttermilk. Fold in the dry ingredients: flour, cocoa, bakng soda and salt. Add vanilla and boiling water. Blend. Pour into 9 x 13 ungreased glass baking dish. Bake 35-40 min. Place first four topping ingredients into a small bowl and…

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Cranberry Upside Down Cake

Melt 3T butter. Add brown sugar and berries. Mix well. Cream .25 c butter. Add granulated sugar and egg. Blend together. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately w milk to butter mix. Add vanilla and mix well. Spoon fruit mix into 8″ baking dish. Spread evenly. Pour batter over top. Bake at 350 for 40-50…

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Coconut Pecan Frosting

Preheat oven to 350°. Bake pecans in a single layer in a shallow pan 8 to 10 minutes or until toasted and fragrant, stirring halfway through. Cool completely (about 20 minutes). Meanwhile, cook evaporated milk, sugar, butter, and egg yolks in a heavy 3-qt. saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly, 3 to 4 minutes or…

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