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Topic: For the second time in my life, I baked a cake from scratch

Terminius_Est Title: Moon River Posts: 40,732 Registered: Feb 27, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 40,160 User ID: 651,096	Subject: For the second time in my life, I baked a cake from scratch
	Ingredients · 3/4 cup butter flavored vegetable shortening, 140 grams · 1 1/4 cup sugar , 300 grams · 2 1/2 cups cake flour, sifted, 300 grams · 3 teaspoons baking powder, 14 grams · 1/4 teaspoon salt · 8 egg yolks, beaten, 130 grams · 3/4 cup milk , 180 grams · 1 teaspoon vanilla Directions Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 2 (9-inch) cake pans with shortening and set aside. Cream together the shortening and the sugar. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Slowly alternate adding the egg yolks and milk with the dry ingredients and mix until well combined. Add the vanilla and mix well. Pour into the prepared pans, about 550 grams of batter for each cake. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven and cool on a rack. They are baked on on the cooling racks now, no disasters with getting them out of the cake pans. Next, American chocolate butter cream frosting. http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/180/Buttercream-Frosting-American Then I'm going to frost the cake. It will look like a total disaster. /sigh -----signature----- There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no death, there is the FORCE. Sci/Fi Bookshelf http://tinyurl.com/2z8u9h
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-Foxy- Title: Moderator Ãœber Brat Posts: 110,094 Registered: May 29, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 107,357 User ID: 683,944	Subject: For the second time in my life, I baked a cake from scratch
	but how does it taste? THAT will be the only thing that REALLY matters to your eaters -----signature----- Long suffering vassal to Xarkath, U.P. - Forever and ever
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Terminius_Est Title: Moon River Posts: 40,732 Registered: Feb 27, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 40,160 User ID: 651,096	Subject: For the second time in my life, I baked a cake from scratch
	The cake tasted great not too sweet, buttery, firm. I used a convection oven at 350 and it cooked up excellent with a nice even brown but I didn't want it to get too brown so I turned it down to 350 after 18 minutes and let it cook until done about 10 more minutes. The butter cream was just OK. I wanted to try this one because it was the easiest butter cream I have found. The french butter creams use like 4 egg yolks and two eggs, then you make a simple syrup and drizzle it in the eggs while still hot. Cook them like you would any custard. I didn't have an instant read thermometer so I cooked them over a double boiler until they coated the back of my spoon and I could run my finger down the middle and leave a wide track. This part is tricky but I've made a lot of ice cream and this step isn't any different than ice cream. -----signature----- There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no death, there is the FORCE. Sci/Fi Bookshelf http://tinyurl.com/2z8u9h
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-Foxy- Title: Moderator Ãœber Brat Posts: 110,094 Registered: May 29, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 107,357 User ID: 683,944	Subject: For the second time in my life, I baked a cake from scratch
	grats -----signature----- Long suffering vassal to Xarkath, U.P. - Forever and ever
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GriffinShadowfeather Title: Posts: 0 Registered: ???? Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 0 User ID: 664,522	Subject: For the second time in my life, I baked a cake from scratch
	Great Job... most the stuff I make now is from scratch. The Family likes it more -----signature-----
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Lynea Title: Dances with Trolls Posts: 82,344 Registered: Jul 26, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 80,243 User ID: 280,742	Subject: For the second time in my life, I baked a cake from scratch
	Nice....I hate to bake. Too damn messy. -----signature----- http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/ "It's crazy that the board newbies think I am a Liberal and B_T is a neo-con." - Gustaive_MT "God left a very clear instruction to Adam. The ****head couldn't even follow that." - -Abednego-
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Lokkie_the_Fierce Posts: 53,284 Registered: Dec 12, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 52,351 User ID: 748,022	Subject: For the second time in my life, I baked a cake from scratch
	I'm not a big cake fan, so my "taste buds" aren't that developed ... I've had many a home made cake, and it tastes the same as box to me. Now icing on the other hand - def prefer making from scratch. -----signature----- WARLORD OF PI Lokkie_the_Fierce (+3.14) http://c.mymovies.dk/ryejay123
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Silverwuf Title: Have trike will babble Posts: 32,958 Registered: Jul 5, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 32,296 User ID: 225,902	Subject: For the second time in my life, I baked a cake from scratch
	I like scratch cakes more because they seem to have more texture than boxed mixes. You can also add any of your own flavors you want quite easily. Silver -----signature----- Women who behave themselves rarely make history. My Give-A-Damn's Busted. http://www.thewufs.com/2003venture/motortrike.htm
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pkhere Title: Yes, they are real Posts: 54,387 Registered: Sep 4, '03 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 53,345 User ID: 835,741	Subject: For the second time in my life, I baked a cake from scratch
	I'm with Silver on this one. I will take home made "anything" over store boughten or boxed. -----signature----- "I wish I could lag during sex." - Reapist Jezza, so you know, you've been moved to the number 1 spot of my list of people with horrible taste on the board. -Wolfgar-
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Lokkie_the_Fierce Posts: 53,284 Registered: Dec 12, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 52,351 User ID: 748,022	Subject: For the second time in my life, I baked a cake from scratch
	Silverwuf posted: I like scratch cakes more because they seem to have more texture than boxed mixes. You can also add any of your own flavors you want quite easily. Silver shrug I suppose - it holds true for most things - but as I don't like cake period, it doesn't matter lol -----signature----- WARLORD OF PI Lokkie_the_Fierce (+3.14) http://c.mymovies.dk/ryejay123
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Marrian Title: Cuppycake Queen Posts: 7,405 Registered: Mar 15, '05 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 7,337 User ID: 1,035,480	Subject: For the second time in my life, I baked a cake from scratch
	Cake...my favorite subject. I prefer using box cakes when I do my cakes, however, you can be creative and dress them up a little with flavors. Especially since you can purchase flavors other than just white, yellow, and chocolate. My butter cream, well, I don't usually make it with butter. I will if I make chocolate icing. I don't even use eggs in mine. I love my icing, especially with almond flavoring. Yum!! -----signature----- -- Internet Metal/Rock DJ -- metalflashback.weebly.com musicmaniamgj.weebly.com
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Rayning Title: VN Grandma Posts: 5,173 Registered: Oct 26, '04 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 4,999 User ID: 981,399	Subject: For the second time in my life, I baked a cake from scratch
	Congratz. Since the hubby cannot eat wheat products, I spend my LIFE creating wheat-free cakes and thingies for him. -----signature----- A picture is worth a thousand words.. and I have thousands of pictures. Finally cancelled the DAoC and Trying WAR on Gorfang-Destro Aion still active, but logging in less and less. No matter what Blood is thicker than most other things.
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