2 missing recipes
Okay bakers out there, I need your help.My mother passed away three years ago and took with her our family's 2 favorite recipes(which she always said she would).
One is for a 7-up cake which was so light and airy it literally fell apart when accompanied with coffee or tea.
The 2nd is for a banana bundt cake which was so heavy and rich
it could put you to sleep merely by inhaling it.
Okay bakers,can you help?
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9 Comments:
Don't worry, JerseyTomato will come to your rescue.
dmcavanagh at 8:06PM on 01/02/09
Check out this blog for the 7Up cake.
I've found a couple of nice looking recipes for banana bundt cake but you'll have to be more specific. Did your mom use a cake mix in it? Did she include chocolate chips? These details (and any others you can provide) will help get you the closest to your mom's recipe.
therealchiffonade at 8:11PM on 01/02/09
My mom baked from scratch. So much so, she found a buttercake recipe which used a box mix and it ticked her off so, she wrote her own recipe.
When she got sick and couldn't bake the way she was used to, she pulled
out that recipe and passed it off as her "improved butter cake"!
So, sorry went off on a tangent, my mom didn't use any mixes for these 2
cakes. No chocolate chips. This was the picture perfect tan bundt cake when inverted.
donnie at 8:19PM on 01/02/09
For all of you out there helping me find this recipe, i do not bake! I hate to bake, but, my dad has been asking for these cakes. Give me any savory thing and I can throw a great dinner together. The thought of having to recreate a cake from scratch is more than frightening.
We made my mom's butter cake this holiday, it took the next day to clean the kitchen!What in God's given planet uses 1 box of conectioner's sugar for a cake that serves 6?
donnie at 8:28PM on 01/02/09
7up Cake
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
3 cups granulated sugar
5 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
2 teaspoons lemon zest yellow parts only (zest the lemon before juicing)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup 7-Up
Confectioners' sugar for dusting or the lemon glaze (recipe follows)
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Grease and lightly flour a 10-inch tube or bundt pan. In large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add lemon zest, lemon juice, and vanilla extract and mix until combined. Slowly add flour, alternating with 7-Up, 1/4 cup at a time, until just combined. Do not overbeat. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 65-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. (time might change depending on your oven) When cake is done, remove from oven and cool on wire rack 15 minutes. Loosen and turn cake out onto wire rack and let cool. When cool, place on cake plate, dust with confectioners sugar, or a glaze of two tsps. lemon juice whisked into1 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar until smooth. Drizzle over cake. (I adore the lemon glaze)
Makes one 10 inch tube cake or bundt pan.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.
lamora at 1:16AM on 01/03/09
Heavy and rich means buttermilk or sour cream.
I have never made the 7up cake dying to see how that comes out.
Banana Bundt Cake
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter at room temperature
2 cups sugar
pinch cinnamon
2 tsps pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs, preferably at room temperature
About 4 very ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 cups)
1 cup buttermilk (you can sub sour cream)
oven to 350 F. butter 9 /10 inch Bundt pan.
Bake 55-65 mins, test with toothpick. Cool for 15 mins before unmolding.
JerzeeTomato at 9:18AM on 01/03/09
@lamora;this sounds like a winner
@JerzeeTomato;this sounds familiar, especially the 4 ripe bananas, my
mom would let tem on the counter till they turned black.
Thank you both, will let you know how they turn out.
donnie at 2:28PM on 01/03/09
Here is another one with more buttermilk
http://www.recipezaar.com/Best-Ever-Banana-Cake-With-Cream-Cheese-Frosting-67256
JerzeeTomato at 10:21PM on 01/03/09
Wow-- the 7up cake recipe is spot on-- i am in the deep south and this is a very familiar cake-- many recipes for it in all sorts of school and church cookbooks and the above mentioned one is seriously spot-on. Here's a banana bundt cake that stops my husband and son (as well as friends) from eating anything else that happens to be in my kitchen...
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups light brown sugar
1 1/2 cups softened butter--i use unsalted
approx 4 1/2 cups mashed superripe bananas (about 9 bananas)
6 eggs, well beaten
2 tsp mexican vanilla
3 3/4 cups cake flour
3 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt.
preheat oven to 350*
cream the butter and sugars, then add the bananas and the eggs and mix well. Sift the dry ingredients together, blend with the banana mixture but don't overmix. Pour into a large bundt pan that you have greased and floured and bake for about an hour and 15-20 minutes- the top will be springy and the edges will begin to pull away from the sides of the pan. This freezes really well, too.
hobcat57 at 3:15PM on 01/05/09