The Wedding Cakes

Cake with Banana and Nuts

Ingredients;

1-1/2 tsp. vinegar

1/2 c. milk

3 c. brown sugar

1 c. Crisco

3 eggs

4 c. flour

2 heaping tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

2 c. bananas, mashed

2 tsp. vanilla

1 c. nuts

Directions;

Combine the vinegar (I use wine vinegar for taste) and the milk to make it sour. Cream the brown sugar,
Crisco and eggs, one at a time. Add the flour, baking soda, salt, nuts, bananas and vanilla. Mix together well.

Bake 35-40 minutes at 350°F in a greased and floured 11×17 in large pan.

Make wedding icing but omit vanilla. Instead add maple flavoring (2 or 3 tbsp. depending on how light or dark you want it).

Wedding Icing:
1 c. milk
6 heaping tbsp. flour
1/2 c. butter
1/2 c. Crisco
1/2 c. sugar
2 tbsp. maple flavoring

In a sauce pan, combine milk and flour. Beat and get all the lumps out. Keep stirring, put on stove and heat until it thickens. Let cool. In a bowl, add butter, Crisco, sugar and maple flavoring. Cream together and add flour mixture. Beat well.

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Spice Apple Cake

Ingredients;

• 1 1/3 cups vegetable oil

• 3 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 2 cups sugar

• 3 large eggs

• 3 to 4 Granny Smith apples, cored and cut into 1/2-inch pieces (3 cups)

• 1 cup chopped assorted nuts, such as pecans and walnuts (optional)

• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

• Caramel Sauce

• Nonstick cooking spray with flour

Directions;

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 12-cup Bundt pan with cooking spray; set aside.

Working over a large sheet of parchment paper, sift together flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt; gather sifted ingredients into center of sheet; set aside.

In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine vegetable oil, sugar, and eggs; mix on high speed until lemon yellow.

Fold reserved parchment in half lengthwise; with mixer on medium speed, gradually shake in dry ingredients until just incorporated.

Add apples and, if desired, nuts, to batter; mix to combine. Add vanilla, mixing until incorporated.

Pour batter into prepared pan, and bake until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 75 to 90 minutes.

Remove from oven, and cool slightly on a wire rack.

Invert cake onto rack; turn cake right-side up to cool completely on rack, and serve drizzled with caramel sauce

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Plain Wedding Cake

1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 egg yolks
1/2 cup milk
2 1/2 cups flour
3 1/2 teaspoons Calumet Baking Powder
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