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Cake Facts

Cake is often the dessert of choice for meals at ceremonial occasions, particularly weddings, anniversaries and birthdays.

the term cake - usually refers to the entire finished object: the cake and its frosting (topping). However, cake also refers to the part that is typically made from flour.

Typical ingredients are wheat flour, eggs, oil, water, baking powder, vanilla extract, and sugar.

Cake mixes are often used at home because they are convenient. In this day both the husband and the wife usually work so it is much harder to find the time to make a cake from scratch.

Prepackaged cake mixes were first introduced to American grocery store shelves in the 1940s by companies including Betty Crocker and General Mills.

Did you know that sprinkles are also known as "jimmies" in certain parts of the United States.

The world's biggest cake was made in Alabama in 1989, and weighed 58 tons, including 7.35 tons of icing.

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Gone-ta-potts

Cherry Nut Cream Cake

recipe by: Pamela Price Svoboda

Cake Ingredients:

1 (8 ounce) package of cream cheese

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 1/2 sticks real butter

4 eggs

1 1/2 teaspoons of almond extract

2 1/2 cups flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 cups of walnuts(chopped)

1 jar of maraschino cherries

Directions:

Cream together 1-1/2 sticks of butter (softened), 1-1/2 cups of sugar, 1 cream cheese, and 1-1/2 teaspoons of almond extract (mix well). Add eggs one at a time and mix well. Add baking powder and flour, mixing well.

Drain the cherries and chop the entire jar and set aside.

In a separate bowl mix a small amount of flour with the cherries and fold into the cake mixture being careful not to crush. Add the nuts and pour the entire mixture into a bundt pan and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Take the cake out of the oven and immediately turn upside down on a dish. This cake cake can also be made as a layer cake.

Icing

1 (8 ounce) package of cream cheese

1/2 cup to 1 cup -powdered sugar

1 jar of maraschino cherries

1 1/2 cups of chopped walnuts

Icing Directions:

After the cake has cooled, glaze the top with a equal mixture of confectioners sugar, 1 softened cream cheese, chopped jar of cherries and chopped nuts. Add a few drops of water as needed in order to mix. Make your icing as thick or thin as you like. Spread over the top of the cake like a thick icing or allowing it to drip down the sides like a thin icing.

Decorate with cherries and walnuts along the top.

Refrigerate after cutting

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