Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 3 cups sugar
• 5 eggs
• 3 cups plus 4 tbls. all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 cup whole milk
• 1 1/2 tsps. vanilla extract

Directions

1. Cream butter and shortening in mixer. Add sugar and beat well.

2. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.

3. Add flour and baking powder, alternately with milk and vanilla.

4. Pour batter into greased and floured tube pan.

5. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes at 325 degrees.

Source: The Advocate – (Joyce Smith, Livingston, La) Baton Rouge, La

This is an old recipe from Mt. Hermon.

Ingredients

• For the cake:
• 2 cups boiling water
• 1 1/2 cups quick oatmeal
• 1 1/2 sticks butter or margarine
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• For the topping:
• 1/2 stick butter or margarine, melted
• 1/2 cup evaporated milk
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup shredded coconut
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a mixing bowl, place oatmeal and butter or margarine with boiling water. Stir to combine. Let sit for 20 minutes.

With an electric mixer, beat eggs. Add in white sugar and brown sugar and beat with eggs until combined. Mix together flour, salt, soda and cinnamon. Add flour mixture to egg mixture a little at a time and mix until incorporated.

Add oatmeal mixture to batter and mix until well combined.

Pour cake batter into a 9-by-13-inch metal cake pan that has been greased or sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.

Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until cake is done.

While cake is baking, prepare topping. In a saucepan over low heat, mix all topping ingredients and cook, stirring constantly, until sugar has melted.

While cake is still hot, cover with warm topping.

Place cake in broiler for 1 to 2 minutes to toast topping. Remove from broiler. Cool cake completely before serving.

Cape Cod Times – Cape Cod, Ma.

Ingredients

• 225g (8oz) plain flour
• 150ml (1/4 pint) milk
• 4-5 tsp ground ginger – depends on personal preference
• 100g (4oz) butter or margarine
• good pinch of bicarbonate of soda
• 2 eggs
• 100g (4oz) soft brown sugar
• 100g (4oz) black treacle

Directions

oven setting: 150 oC/ 300 oF/ Gas Mark 2

1. Preheat oven and grease 450g loaf tin

2. Sift together the flour, ginger, bicarbonate of soda and sugar

3. Warm the milk and dissolve the butter/marg in it. DO NOT BOIL.

4. Beat the eggs

5. Add the beaten eggs and treacle to the dry ingrediants.

6. Add the milk and butter mixture. Beat well. The mixture should be really runny.

7. Pour into prepared tin and bake for 35minutes. Then lower the heat to a very cool (130oC/ 275 oF/ Gas Mark 1/2-1) for 25minutes.

Classic English favourite. A beautifully dense cake. Good by itself; as a pudding with vanilla ice-cream; or even toasted and buttered at tea time! Perfect.

Nigella.com

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 4 cups flour
• 3 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 2 teaspoons cream of tartar

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a cookie sheet.

Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add vanilla. Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Sift together flour, baking soda and cream of tartar, then beat into creamed mixture.

Divide the dough into 3 or 4 portions and roll them out, one at a time, on a lightly floured board to a thickness of 1/4-inch. Cut with a cookie cutter and transfer cutouts to a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees F. until lightly browned — no longer than 10 minutes.

Ingredients

• 1 (18.5-oz.) box yellow cake mix
• 1 egg
• 1 stick margarine, softened
• 1 (8-oz.) pkg. fat-free cream cheese
• 1 (16-oz.) box powdered sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Directions

1. Mix cake mix, 1 egg and margarine together. Batter will sticky.

2. Press batter into lightly greased 9×13-inch baking dish.

3. Combine remaining ingredients together until smooth. Pour over top of batter in pan.

4. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes, then lower oven to 300 for another 20 minutes.

5. Cool and cut into squares.

Source: the Advocate – Baton Rouge, La