I want to bake a cake

German chocolate

Whatever John Whaite ( British Bake-Off champ) decides to make for me.

Southern caramel cake with caramel fudge frosting

OP those are weirdly shaped pecs.

Everyone raves on this one and I've made it for many friends' birthdays.

RUM CAKE RECIPE

1/2 cup chopped pecans

1 package yellow cake mix (ignore box directions)

1 large vanilla instant pudding

4 eggs

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum (or any rum)

1/2 cup cold water

Preheat oven to 325deg. Grease & Flour bundt pan. Evenly spread the pecans in the bottom of the pan. Mix all remaining ingredients in large mixing bowl. Beat until nice and smooth. Pour batter over pecans and bake 45 minutes to an hour, depending on your oven.

Take out and let cool while you make glaze. Glaze Ingredients:

1 stick butter

3/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup Captain Morgan's

1/4 cup water

Bring all to a boil for 4 minutes, stirring continuously. Pour glaze over cake while still in bundt pan. Let cool for approximately 3 hours. Turn bundt cake upside down onto your favorite serving dish & serve! ENJOY!!

Banana cake!

Good luck with that, OP. As of Monday, 4/6, my grocery store was out of boxed cake mixes, cake flour, all purpose flour, sugar and Bisquick, among other things.

Chocolate.

Italian Cream Cake

Cream Cheese Pound Cake

Just don’t leave it out in the rain, ‘cause it took so long to bake it and you’ll never have that recipe again.

New York Double Cheesecake.

I enjoy watching this guy's channel. He posts mostly baking videos, but he adds other stuff too. His recipes are good and easy to follow. However, I do think he tends to use a bit too much icing on his cakes.

He's also easy on the eyes, and yes he's family.

Here, OP

Put a cake mix in a sheet cake pan and add a 12 oz can of Seven Up.....bake it and you'll have a cake.

Google "The almond cake that will save your soul". You will thank me.

Hummingbird cake!

I’ve always wanted to try making apple cake. Has anyone here made one?

Vanilla Wafer Cake with Coconut VANILLA WAFER CAKE Print Recipe INGREDIENTS 2 sticks butter (1 cup), softened

1 3/4 cups sugar 6 eggs 1 (11-ounce) box vanilla wafers, placed in a plastic bag and crushed with a rolling pin or use a food processor 1/2 cup milk 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 (7-ounce) package sweetened shredded coconut 1 cup finely chopped pecans INSTRUCTIONS Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease and flour abundt pan well.

Using an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Alternate between mixing in vanilla wafer crumbs and milk. Stir in vanilla extract, coconut, and pecans. Place in oven and bake for 60 to 70 minutes. Let cool in pan for 15 minutes and then invert onto a cake stand or plate. NOTES Note: Whenever I bake something in a bundt pan, I place it on a baking sheet just in case there is any overflow.

INGREDIENTS 1/2 cup (120g) unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 1/2 cups (300g) caster sugar (or fine white granulated sugar) 2 large eggs 1/4 cup cooking oil 1 tablespoon (10g) unsweetened cocoa powder plus 1 tablespoon extra for dusting 2 1/2 tablespoons (45ml) red food colouring (liquid, not gel) 2 teaspoons (10ml) pure vanilla extract 1 tablespoon (20ml) white vinegar 2 1/2 cups (350g) plain cake flour, sifted (or all purpose/plain flour) 1 teaspoon baking soda (bi-carb soda) 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup (250ml) buttermilk* Cream Cheese Frosting: 14 ounces (400g) cream cheese (not spreadable), at room temperature 1/2 cup (120g) unsalted butter, at room temperature 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 4 cups confectioners (or icing) sugar 1 tablespoon lemon juice (optional -- adds subtle hint of lemon)

INSTRUCTIONS For Cake: Heat oven to 350°F | 175°C. Lightly grease two 8-inch cake pans with butter or nonstick oil spray and lightly dust with 1 tablespoon of the sifted cocoa powder. Cream butter and sugar together until light in colour. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition to combine well. In a smaller bowl, mix together oil, remaining cocoa powder, red food colouring and vanilla until smooth. Stir colour mixture and vinegar through the creamed sugar mixture to combine. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl. Add half of the dry ingredients and half of the buttermilk to the wet ingredients; mix well. Repeat with remaining dry ingredients and buttermilk. Divide batter among the 2 prepared pans and bake for about 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack completely. For Cream Cheese Frosting: Beat together cream cheese, butter and vanilla until smooth lighter in colour (about 3-4 minutes). Beat in icing sugar until frosting is light and fluffy (if frosting is too thin, add more icing sugar and beat again until reaching your desired consistency). Optional if using: mix in the lemon juice. Assemble Cake: Transfer 1 cake onto a serving dish/plate, flat-side down. Trim the top dome off of the cake to create a flat bottom later. Scoop about 1 1/2 - 2 cups of frosting onto cake and spread evenly over the top. Place second cake layer on top and use remaining frosting to cover top and sides of cake. Crumble trimmed pieces of cake to decorate. Enjoy!

I would love to make a cake but I am one person. Can you freeze leftover cake that’s been frosted? Or maybe just freeze the cake part?

R19 that woman makes the best recipe videos! They’re like soft porn or something.

r5 I used to make that all the time in the '70s, but I used Bacardi. (I think the recipe came from them.)

This is one of the easiest you can do, and it is so damned good!

Ooey Gooey Cake

Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour a standard sheet cake pan. Empty one box of devils food cake mix into bowl. Add two eggs and one softened stick of butter. Mix well. Spread the cake batter in the pan. It will be like peanut butter, so go ahead and use your fingers. Next, put an 8 oz (large box) brick of cream cheese in a bowl and soften in the microwave for one minute. Take a one pound box of powdered sugar, and pour out 1/2 cup to set aside. Pour the rest of the powdered sugar over the cream cheese, and whisk together with two more eggs. The consistency will be like pancake batter. Pour it over the chocolate mixture in the pan. Sprinkle a bag of chocolate chips on top of the cream cheese layer. Sprinkle the remaining 1/2 cup of powdered sugar on top of the chocolate chips. Bake for 45-50 minutes.

I take this to parties all the time and people scarf it down. Very rich and gooey!

Variations: use a lemon cake mix and omit the chocolate chips - or - use a German chocolate cake mix and add coconut and pecans to the topping.

OP's pic - a guy who is a blast from the past.

Best gingerbread recipe-- though I hate this website. But it is delicious!

R13, I'll see your B52s, and raise you an Ocean Blue.

R13 - I heard "it takes a long time to rise."

Pineapple upside down cake is easy to make OP, probably one of the easiest cakes to make. I haven't made one in years but they always turned out great.

Thanks for all the suggestions! I was going to make it r28 but I realized I don't have sour cream. I have flour, eggs, butter and everything else, so I am going to look at the recipes suggested and see what I can do.

I like Cake by the Ocean.

This recipe doesn't call for sour cream. Any recipe for yellow cake would work.

Oh, come on, DL bitches.

That sounds absolutely disgusting. What did Kwanzaa ever to do anyone to deserve that cake?

[quote] Southern caramel cake with caramel fudge frosting

I hope you have better luck than me. When I attempted this frosting, the sugar re-crystallized after I melted it and the results were sandy and gritty. It was not nice and I hesitate to try again and mess it up.

[quote] I would love to make a cake but I am one person. Can you freeze leftover cake that’s been frosted? Or maybe just freeze the cake part?

Yes, cake freezes very well - frosted or not. I'm one person too and I recommend you check some of the recipes from a site called Dessert for Two, which has many small batch goodies. Invest in a 6-inch cake pan too.

[quote]R33 That sounds absolutely disgusting. What did Kwanzaa ever to do anyone to deserve that cake?

There has been much analysis of that monstrosity.

My mother used to make Pineapple Upside Down Cake with this recipe that uses Bisquick.

The comments on Sandra Lee’s videos are always funny.

[quote] I've always dreamed of having my own hand me down family recipe of boxed cake, canned juice and synthetic dyes.

Margaret Fox's Amazon Chocolate Cake

She was the owner/chef at Café Beaujolais in Mendocino, CA. This one is not too sweet and easy.

1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

5 tablespoons neutral oil (like corn, canola, or vegetable)

1 cup cold water

1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 tablespoon cider or white vinegar

Confectioners' sugar (optional, for dusting)

1. Heat the oven to 350° F.

2. Mix together the flour, cocoa, baking soda, sugar, and salt. Sift. In a separate bowl, whisk together the water, oil, vanilla, and vinegar.

3. Whisk together the wet and dry mixtures. If lumpy, whisk until smooth, or pour through strainer in to a bowl and break up lumps, pressing them through.

4. Mix again, and pour into a greased 9-inch round cake pan. Tap the edge of the pan against the edge of the counter, or drop from 6 inches to the floor several times to pop air bubbles. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the top springs back when pressed gently.

5. Cool before removing from the pan and dusting with confectioners' sugar, or frosting if desired.

I’m in the mood for an upside down Flint Rubble Bubble cake. It’s just fun to say.

That Kwanzaa cake is about the most disgusting thing I've ever seen. Kudos to that Japanese chef who takes us through it in [R36]'s post. She was charming and informative -Give her a TV show and send Sandra Lee to Africa to soak up some culture.

This is Julia Child’s favorite chocolate cake.

I've made the same or similar rum bundt cake that R5 posted. R22 is right, it was a Bacardi recipe from the 1970s or '60s. The cake is very good, IMO. You can swap out the cake mix & pudding flavors and do different variations (don't need the rum) like chocolate cake & chocolate pudding. Instead of the pecans, you can add chocolate chips.

My mom used to make the Bisquick pineapple upside-down cake. I think she used the recipe, which was printed on the box. That was a good cake as well.

I love this cake but it looks way too complicated for me to make. it’s easier just to go buy a slice.

Julia Child's Queen of Sheba cake is absolutely delicious, but not the easiest cake to make. She made it on a couple of episodes of The French Chef, where she takes more time than the video posted above. Very much worth the effort!

R12 he’s kinda hot

I baked this pound cake because I had half a quart of buttermilk in the house.

I added the zest of one large orange. Easy and freaking delicious!

I've made this chocolate cake that R39 listed many times - easy and quick and vegan. I just found a vanilla version that I'm curious about. Never had a yellow cake that didn't use eggs, butter or milk. Anyone make it? Is it moist like the chocolate version?

My favorite review of the Sandra Lee Kwanzaa cake :

"Please don't make this cake, and for God sake please don't accept any from someone that has made it."

White Chocolate and Coffee Walnut Crumble Cake

[quote]R45 Julia Child's Queen of Sheba cake is absolutely delicious, but not the easiest cake to make. She made it on a couple of episodes of The French Chef, where she takes more time than the video posted above.

I forgot to mention that the cake appears at the [bold]49:00 mark [/bold]in that video.

I just listed to an excellent biography on her titled DEARIE (2013), which I’ve been meaning to start a thread on. But I [italic]think [/italic]you’re right ... for that particular cookbook and series of videos, the recipes were quite possibly simplified.

FUDGY cake! Looks pretty easy.

r48 I've made the yellow cake version of that cake with the recipe on the King Arthur site. It comes out as well as the chocolate version.

53 responses and no one has pointed out that on DL it's customarily referred to as CAK?

We’re slippin R54!

[quote]My mother used to make Pineapple Upside Down Cake with this recipe that uses Bisquick.

I took a home economics class when i was in junior high for laughs.

Imagine my surprise when I learned that Bisquick was, in fact, quick bis and had to learn how to make bis by hand, cutting the shortening with two knives.

And no, I cannot cook well. However, I did learn enough to be able to follow a recipe and not poison myself.

I made that cake last night R6. It’s freaking delicious!

I could really go for a nice slice of coffee cake about now. I've never made this one but a friend made it one Christmas. This recipe sounds about right.

Brutally honest Italian mayor on the prospect of homemade Easter cake @1:10

R59 I love that guy (the first one).

I read that "I want to be a cake" and I kinda agreed.

R57 Aww, SHIT, as soon as I saw your post, I begged my roommate (a pastry chef), to whip it up. He followed the recipe exactly as written and it turned out dry without much banana flavor. I was so looking forward to it too! The frosting was good though!

I would never bake a pineapple upside down without a mix.

This thread is going to get my pancreas into trouble. Hell, why not. I must try some of these recipes.

What’s the difference between banana bread and a banana cake, other than the need for frosting?

R62 I wonder how you got a dry cake? It has eggs, butter, bananas and sour cream. You should have a nice cake with those ingredients. Maybe he baked the cake too long?

Have a look at this article before baking.

Boston Cream Pie (cake). I loved the packaged mix that used to be available back in the 70's

I love Sanders Bumpy Cak! I grew up on this. It looks above my capability as a baker though.

Here you go r17.

This is very easy to make.

R69 that looks delicious.

R62 My roommate thinks the pan is too shallow. We tried this sour cream banana cake, in 13 by 9 pan which is deeper, and it was incredible!

Make buns instead.

[quote]My roommate thinks the pan is too shallow.

Maybe your roommate is too shallow.

That could be R71. I used a 9x13” pan for the banana cake. It worked great. I just cooked it an extra 8 minutes. I also added fresh lemon juice to the frosting. I gave some cake to my neighbors and they loved it!

My least favorite aunt, whom my mom privately called "the shriek owl", did one thing which impressed me: she something she referred to as a "Cherry Pizza." It was made in a sheet cake pan, with a buttery bottom layer consisting of something resembling Bisquick batter and brown sugar. Prior to baking, canned cherry pie filling was apparently dropped onto it by spoonfuls, closely spaced together. Diced pecans and shredded sweet coconut were then sprinkled over it, and it was baked. No idea how long or at what temp, but there must have been some restraint involved, because the coconut was only lightly toasted. Or perhaps the toppings were added at some point near the end of the baking process.

It was pretty tasty to my ten-year-old self, and I've spent the past forty-five years trying to think how it might have been made (the above description is the fruit of my ruminations) because of course *hell no* the bitch wouldn't share the recipe. There was no love lost on that side of the family, and as it all came out in the wash, it's been some twenty-two years since I last saw my grasping, venal uncle and his shriek owl of a wife; I've no idea if they're even still alive.

Looking at it, it seems probably the frau-iest of mid-1970s frau recipes. Perhaps one of you recognizes it, or has had it sometime in the remote past. ;)

'she made something' - failure to proofread my work

I want that cak @ R61! Would somebody please bak one for me?

Is this it r75?

R78, that looks like it's on the same page, sort of, but my aunt's dessert didn't have any cream cheese, and the cherries weren't that visible beneath the pecan and coconut topping. Your recipe looks like more effort than what my aunt did. Hers seemed thrown together; she probably got it off the back of a late-60s/early 70s Bisquick box.

Thanks; I might try your recipe.

The first time I made the cake at R39, I was sure that I'd misread the instructions because the batter is very very liquid. I grew up using boxed cake mixes and also scratch cake batter, and they were always thick - I had never made a cake with batter so runny. I was sure that I'd put too much water or something, and I dumped the batter in the garbage. I re-did the recipe and got the same result.

I shrugged my shoulders and baked it anyway, waiting to be disappointed. I was pleasantly surprised when it came out so good. I asked a baker friend how that works - how can something so loose and liquid still bake up normally. She couldn't explain it.

OP - you didn't mention this as a nod to the B-52's song, Cake, did you? Cuz well done if you did.

I wanna make a Cok Cak!

R82 you can have one delivered! I remember my parent's friends bought one of these cakes as a joke, and I was mortified that my parent's each had a slice. I was also mortified when they went to see "Oh, Calcutta!". I was a sensitive kid.

Poisoned Dragon, maybe you could try making a cherry clafouti and add pecans and coconut. Even if you found the original recipe, it probably wouldn't taste as good to your adult palate. Google brings up versions of cherry pizza with a sugar cookie base, but I think it would be better with shortbread cookie crust, and closer to what you are remembering.

Perhaps, R84. Thanks for the suggestion!

No Flour, Eggs or Butter? No Problem! 23 Cake Recipes for When You’re Missing an Ingredient

Today on Access Hollywood, they showed how to make cakes in the microwave using coffee mugs. I can’t find the recipe.

How about a Purple Sweet Potato Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting?

R87 I've done something like that a few times as a student, when I didn't have an oven. You have to eat it as soon as it is cool enough, in my experience it had a tendency to dry up. It is kind of conforting but also kind of pathetic.

I want to make this cake but it looks too difficult.

I hate baking but want to eat whichever cak you pick.