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Spice Cake with Penuche Frosting

Recipe By :Carol Peterson
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Cakes and Frostings

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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--- Cake ---
1/4 cup vegetable shortening
1/4 cup butter -- (1/2 stick)
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 large eggs -- beaten
1 cup milk
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup dates -- chopped
1/2 cup nuts -- chopped
--- Frosting ---
1/2 cup butter -- (1 stick)
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup milk
2 cups powdered sugar

CAKE:
1. Cream shortening, butter, and brown sugar. Gradually add eggs.
2. Sift flour, soda, salt, and spice and alternate with milk.
3. Add dates and nuts.
4. Bake in 9-inch layers at 350°F for 30 minutes.
5. Cool, then frost with Penuche Frosting.

FROSTING:
1. Melt butter in medium saucepan.
2. Stir in brown sugar and boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
3. Add milk and heat to boiling.
4. Remove from heat; cool and beat in powdered sugar.

Source:
"Blanche Zastera (Carol's Grandmother)"
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NOTES : Gramma baked this cake for my dad's birthdays when he was
growing up in the 1930s.

> FROSTING:
> 1. Melt butter in medium saucepan.
> 2. Stir in brown sugar and boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
> 3. Add milk and heat to boiling.
> 4. Remove from heat; cool and beat in powdered sugar.

Archiving the whole recipe, but this frosting sounds 2 die 4!!!!!

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:26:49 GMT, "rox formerly rmg"
> wrote:

>> FROSTING:
>> 1. Melt butter in medium saucepan.
>> 2. Stir in brown sugar and boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
>> 3. Add milk and heat to boiling.
>> 4. Remove from heat; cool and beat in powdered sugar.
>
>Archiving the whole recipe, but this frosting sounds 2 die 4!!!

I confess to having eaten it plain.

Carol

"Damsel in dis Dress" > wrote in message
...
> * Exported from MasterCook *
>
> Spice Cake with Penuche Frosting
>
> Recipe By :Carol Peterson
> Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
> Categories : Cakes and Frostings
>
> Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
> -------- ------------ --------------------------------
> --- Cake ---
> 1/4 cup vegetable shortening
> 1/4 cup butter -- (1/2 stick)
> 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
> 2 large eggs -- beaten
> 1 cup milk
> 2 cups all-purpose flour
> 1 teaspoon baking soda
> 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
> 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
> 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
> 1/4 teaspoon salt
> 1 cup dates -- chopped
> 1/2 cup nuts -- chopped
> --- Frosting ---
> 1/2 cup butter -- (1 stick)
> 1 cup brown sugar
> 1/4 cup milk
> 2 cups powdered sugar
>
> CAKE:
> 1. Cream shortening, butter, and brown sugar. Gradually add eggs.
> 2. Sift flour, soda, salt, and spice and alternate with milk.
> 3. Add dates and nuts.
> 4. Bake in 9-inch layers at 350°F for 30 minutes.
> 5. Cool, then frost with Penuche Frosting.
>
> FROSTING:
> 1. Melt butter in medium saucepan.
> 2. Stir in brown sugar and boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
> 3. Add milk and heat to boiling.
> 4. Remove from heat; cool and beat in powdered sugar.
>
> Source:
> "Blanche Zastera (Carol's Grandmother)"
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> NOTES : Gramma baked this cake for my dad's birthdays when he was
> growing up in the 1930s.

I bet this is good, and I am going to make it sometime when the weather
cools down, but I would have to replace the dates with raisins. My mother
made this for us when we were growing up also. I never had Penuche frosting
on it, but I bet that would be delicious. We had buttercream on ours.

pfoley wrote:
>
> "Damsel in dis Dress" > wrote in message
> ...
> > * Exported from MasterCook *
> >
> > Spice Cake with Penuche Frosting
> >
> > FROSTING:
> > 1. Melt butter in medium saucepan.
> > 2. Stir in brown sugar and boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
> > 3. Add milk and heat to boiling.
> > 4. Remove from heat; cool and beat in powdered sugar.
> >
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> > NOTES : Gramma baked this cake for my dad's birthdays when he was
> > growing up in the 1930s.
>
> I bet this is good, and I am going to make it sometime when the weather
> cools down, but I would have to replace the dates with raisins. My mother
> made this for us when we were growing up also. I never had Penuche frosting
> on it, but I bet that would be delicious. We had buttercream on ours.

You either love or hate dates. Personally, I don't like raisins in
cakes. Except for Mom's carrot cake.

Back to the issue at hand. Penuche is brown sugar fudge, if that gives
you an idea about what the frosting might be like. Just picture
vanilla fudge with brown sugar in it. Mmmm!

Carol