Yellow Cake with Strawberry Filling and Chocolate Frosting

   We're getting into strawberry season so I thought I'd share this great recipe. The cake is the Egg and Butter Cake recipe I shared earlier, but instead of a cream cheese frosting I used my favorite chocolate frosting recipe, because chocolate and strawberries go pretty well together add some pecans and you've got a great dessert for a spring get together.

                                  
                           Egg and Butter layer Cake

1/2 pound butter                                       1/4 teas. salt
2 cups sugar                                              1 teas. vanilla
5 eggs                                                       1 cup chopped pecans (optional)
2 cups flour
1 1/2 teas. baking soda

Cream butter and sugar well. Blend your dry ingredients together. Add 1 egg then a small amount of the flour mixture. Continue alternating ingredients until all are used up. Beat in vanilla and stir in nuts, if using, then pour into two 9" cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.

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    While your cake is baking you can make your filling. This was originally a lemon filling recipe so feel free to add whatever fruit you like.

                                               Strawberry cake filling

    3/4 cups sugar                                  3/4 cups water
    2 Tbs. cornstarch                              2 egg yolks
   dash salt                                            1 cup of strawberries
   1/2 teas. cinnamon                            1 Tbs. butter

     Stir together sugar, cornstarch, salt, and cinnamon in a sauce pan. To the dry ingredients add water, egg yolks, and strawberries and cook over medium heat until thick stirring constantly. Once the sauce drops heavily from the spoon remove from heat and add butter. Filling will thicken as it cools.

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                       Then make the frosting. 

                                     Luscious Chocolate Frosting

   4 sq. unsweetened chocolate                                    2 unbeaten egg whites
   1/2 cup butter                                                            
   4 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
   1/3 cup milk


      Melt chocolate and butter together. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well. Place the bowl in ice water and beat with an electric mixer until it is thick enough to spread.

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Halloween Jack O`Lantern Cake

   Flush with success from my  earlier Halloween cake I decided to make another. Since I'd already done purple and orange I decided to make a Jack O` Lantern cake. The frosting is my usual Cream Cheese frosting dyed orange and the cake is a yellow cake I dyed green, because green is cool and it makes it look like the jack o` lantern is rotten. It was little weird eating it, because we kept thinking the frosting should taste like pumpkin and the cake should taste like lime, but that's part of the Halloween-ness of it, right? Originally this was a bundt cake recipe, but I couldn't find a recipe for a two layer cake that used as many eggs so I added baking soda to the batter and baked it in two 9'' pans.

 I was supposed to mix nuts into the batter, but I forgot and had to put them on top of the batter. Which worked out better because if you layer the cakes right they end up like seeds in the middle of a pumpkin. The ones that toasted on top even had a pumpkin seed texture, so that's how I will type up the recipe. Mix them in or omit them, if you like.




              
                                                           

                                             Egg and Butter Cake  

1/2 pound butter                                           1/4 teas. salt
2 cups sugar                                                 1 teas. vanilla      
5 eggs                                                           Green food dye
2 cups flour                                                  1 cup chopped pecans
1 1/2 teas. baking soda                                                                    

    Cream butter and sugar well. Blend your dry ingredients together. Add 1 egg then a small amount of the flour mixture. Continue alternating ingredients until all are used up. beat in vanilla and green food dye. (if using) Pour into two 9" cake pans and sprinkle nuts in the center of the batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.

     

                                                            Cream Cheese frosting

1 8oz package cream cheese              Yellow and red food dye (optional)

1 stick butter                                         1 cup chopped pecans (optional)

1 box powdered sugar

1 tsp. vanilla  

Beat cheese and butter. Add powder sugar (a little at a time until desired taste and consistency are reached). Mix in vanilla and food dye (if using). Stir in nuts (if using). Spread on cooled cake.

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