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Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting

February 20, 2015 by Mary Ellen Stringham 8 Comments

“Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting” is sort of a family tradition. It was usually the cake of choice when our son Robert was asked what kind he wanted. Mom’s was always a cake mix, but I am a failure with cake mixes. This recipe however always works for me.

Growing up it wasn’t Sunday dinner without cake for dessert. There are several funny stories that go along with that as well. So that it wouldn’t get cut before dinner it was most often placed, frosted and usually sprinkled, in the upper cupboard second shelf on top of the mixing bowls. More that once the cupboard was opened and the cake fell out. Not always a total disaster and most of the time still edible.

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Hot Milk Sponge Cake

January 30, 2015 by Mary Ellen Stringham 7 Comments

My husband loves cake. If it has fruit on it all the better. For years I would make angel food cake and serve it topped with berries and ice cream or whipped cream. Then we found this great Hot Milk Sponge Cake recipe in a 1973 printing of Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book. The cake had similar texture with a different flavor and gave us another option.

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Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

January 23, 2015 by Mary Ellen Stringham 25 Comments

Everyone has a food that is hard to resist. Mine is cookies. It doesn’t really matter what kind I love them. The problem is that I can’t usually stop with just one, and this

“Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie”

recipe is no different. It has two of my favorite ingredients, CHOCOLATE and NUTS. Oh,ya!!

They have cake like softness with a little crispness around the bottom edge and full of chocolaty goodness.

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Apple Cake and Dip

October 25, 2014 by Mary Ellen Stringham 5 Comments

It is that time of year when wonderful fruits and vegetables are harvested. We love new crop apples. They are sweet, crisp and it’s time to bake with them.

This recipe is another old one of my mother’s. I don’t know it’s origin. I just remember how much I loved it when she baked it.

My favorite part of course is the sauce that she always called dip.

Cake

1 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter
1 egg
3 medium apples
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup nuts (optional)

Cream together butter and sugar until light. Add egg and beat until blended. Sift together dry ingredients. Peel and grate apples, immediately blend into creamed mixture. It will look curdled. Mix in dry ingredients. Pour into a 9″ round cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 – 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.