Sunday April 26, 2009 Week # 7

Velvet Crumb Cake

Okay, so I finally got around to sending this blog around to some friends and family and have received some good recipes to try and some amendments to past recipes. The correction for this week came from Dad. The Coconut Cake recipe from earlier was not the one we had as kids. Dad e-mailed me the recipe for the Velvet Crumb Cake that we used to have. The icing was similar to several weeks ago with the addition of nuts so here is the recipe from Dad that we had this week:

1 1/2 cup bisquick
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
2 Tbsp shortening
1 tsp vanilla

use an 8X8 square pan, greased.

350 degrees for 30 minutes

Topping
1/2 cup coconut
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup nuts
3 Tbsp Butter
2tbsp milk

Cool cake, spread topping and place inder broiler til bubbly. watch carefully.

I doubled both of the recipes and used a 13X8 pan.

Everyone liked this again! This topping could be spread on compressed cardboard and people would rave about it! Mark and Scott liked the nuts in the topping.

I thought the previous recipe was much better. The cake was moister and the topping was crunchier. I used a torch this time (thanks to Kellie for my new birthday present!) instead of the broiler because I cooked the cake in a glass pan. Broiled was better...more evenly toasted.
Grammy sent a really interesting cake from Elna and I am trying to find all of the ingredients (something of a scavenger hunt!) So stay tuned for next week's cake! Let them eat cake!!