Aunt Evelyns No Name Cake Recipes

AUNT EVELYN'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Gather all your ingredients together.
• 2. Mix everything together in mixer bowl. Beat everything together at once.
• 3. Pour into an ungreased 10" tube pan. Bake at 350o for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until cake tests done by inserting toothpick into center and it comes out clean. When you remove cake from oven do not try to remove cake immediately from pan. Wait at least 10 min. Then take a knife or spatula and go around cake to loosen it. Do the same for the middle of the cake using a smaller spatula or knife.
• 4. I don't usually ice this cake but you can or just sprinkle it with confectioners sugar. This cake is moist and delicious.

LEMON-BUTTERMILK POUND CAKE WITH AUNT EVELYN'S LEMON GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
• Beat white sugar and 1 1/2 cups butter together in a bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, about 10 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, thoroughly beating each egg into the butter mixture before adding the next.
• Sift flour, salt, and baking soda together in a bowl. Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the butter mixture; mix well. Pour in 1/2 the buttermilk and beat until combined. Repeat adding the remaining flour mixture and buttermilk, beating well after each addition, and ending with the flour mixture. Stir lemon extract into batter. Pour batter into prepared tube pan.
• Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Bake in the oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 60 to 75 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to a cake platter or plate.
• Beat confectioner's sugar, lemon juice, 2 tablespoons butter, and lemon zest together in a bowl until glaze is smooth. Pour about half the glaze over the cake; let cool. Pour remaining glaze over the cake.

AUNTIE'S RED VELVET CAKE!

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2. Mix sugar, shortening, salt, and baking soda in power mixer with whisk attachment.
• 3. In seperate bowl measure out flour.
• 4. In another bowl mix together eggs, buttermilk, vanilla and vinegar.
• 5. Alternate pouring the flour and buttermilk mixture into the mixing bowl.
• 6. Mix in the cocoa and the red food coloring. Do not over beat.
• 7. Bake in 2 8" round pans for 25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
• 8. Mix all icing ingredients in electric mixer for 15 minutes. *You MUST mix for the full 15 minutes or you WILL be disappointed!
• 9. After the cake is completely cool, layer it up and ice it!