Birthday Cake With Sherry Glaze Recipes

BIRTHDAY CAKE WITH SHERRY GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter and flour an angel-food-cake pan. Sift together the flour and baking powder. Using a mixer at medium speed, beat the butter until creamy and slowly add the brown sugar. Mix in the egg yolks, milk, vanilla, orange extract and 2 tablespoons of the sherry. Blend in the flour mixture.
• In another bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff but not dry. Fold them into the batter. Fold in the walnuts, raisins, currants and orange peel. Scrape into the prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes, then unmold and cool on a rack before glazing.
• In a small bowl, whisk the confectioners' sugar and remaining 11/2 tablespoons sherry until smooth. Drizzle the glaze over the top.

SHERRY TEA CAKES AND GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 (12 cup) muffin tins with paper muffin cup liners.
• Combine cake mix, pudding mix, sherry, oil, eggs, and nutmeg in a large bowl. Beat for 2 minutes, or until well blended. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling each 2/3 full. Bake for 18 minutes, or until light golden brown on top. Cool completely on a wire rack.
• When cupcakes are cool, ice them using a small spatula or butter knife. Let sit until glaze is set. Place sugared pink rose petals on the tops of each cupcakes. Stack 3 glass cake pedestals on top of each other. Arrange cupcakes on each tier.
• Sift confectioners' sugar into a large bowl. Gradually add sherry, whisking until smooth. Do not ice cupcakes until they have cooled completely.
• Beat 2 egg whites in a medium bowl until frothy. With a fine brush, apply a thin coat of egg whites to both sides of each petal. Sprinkle evenly with granulated sugar. Shake off excess sugar and let dry completely on a wire rack, about 2 hours, or let dry overnight.

SHERRY WINE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Mix all ingredients at medium speed for 2 minutes.
• 2. Bake in greased and floured bundt pan for 40-50 minutes @350 degrees. Let cool in pan for 20 minutes.
• 3. Poke holes in cake and soak with the following glaze.
• 4. 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 tbsp butter, 3 tbsp crème Sherry. Heat glaze ingredients only until sugar is completely dissolved.
• 5. Serve topped with strawberries and whipped cream.

SHERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Grease and flour 10-inch bundt pan.
• In large mixing bowl, combine cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, cooking oil, sherry, the 1 T butter flavoring and the nutmeg.
• Blend at low speed till combined.
• Beat at medium speed for 2 minutes.
• Pour 1/3 cup batter into bundt pan.
• Combine the sugar and cinnamon.
• Sprinkle half of the sugar and cinnamon mixture over batter in pan.
• Add another 1/3 of the cake batter in pan.
• Sprinkle with remaining sugar and cinnamon mixture.
• Top with remaining batter.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes.
• Let cake cool in pan for about 15 minutes before placing on cake plate.
• For glaze, mix together the confectioners' sugar, the vanilla, milk and butter flavoring until smooth.
• Spoon over warm cake.

GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY CHERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Thoroughly grease a 9-inch Bundt® pan with shortening, then dust with flour. Shake off any excess flour from the pan.
• In a bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, vegetable oil, eggs, vanilla extract, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt until thoroughly combined. Gently mix in the cherry pie filling, chocolate chips and nuts, and scrape the batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out with moist crumbs, about 1 hour. Allow to cool for 10 minutes, then invert pan and remove cake. Allow cake to finish cooling on a rack; sprinkle lightly with confectioners' sugar.

ALMOND BIRTHDAY CAKE WITH SHERRY-LEMON BUTTERCREAM

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease two 8-inch by 2-inch-deep round cake pans and line bottoms with parchment or waxed paper. In a bowl, beat together the eggs, 1/4 cup sour cream, vanilla and lemon zest.
• In bowl of an electric mixer, whisk together the cake flour, ground almonds, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Beat in butter and remaining 3/4 cup sour cream until light and fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes. Slowly beat in the egg mixture until fully combined.
• Scrape batter into prepared pans. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center of a cake layer comes out clean. Let cake layers cool in pans on wire racks for 15 minutes, then invert onto racks and peel off paper. Let cool completely on racks.
• While cakes cool, make frosting: In a heatproof bowl suspended over a pan of simmering water (or use a double boiler), whisk egg whites, sugar and salt until sugar is completely melted (130 to 140 degrees on a candy thermometer), 3 to 4 minutes. Remove egg whites from heat; beat mixture with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until completely cooled and thickened, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Beat in the butter, a little at a time, until frosting is smooth and fluffy. Beat in the sherry, lemon zest and cinnamon.
• To frost cake, place 1 layer on a cake plate, rounded side down, trimming if necessary so it lies flat. Spread with a third of the frosting, top with second layer and frost remainder of cake.

FRAN'S SHERRY CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
• 2. Mix all ingredients except the powdered sugar on medium speed for 5 minutes. Mixture will be thick.
• 3. Pour into well greased bundt pan and bake at 350°F for 45 minutes.
• 4. While cooling mix 1/4 cup powdered sugar and 1/2 cup sherry. Poke holes in cake with a fork and drizzle while still in pan.
• 5. Turn out pan onto cooling rack. Mix glaze ingredients and pour over cake while still warm.

CREAM SHERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Spray bundt pan with oil.
• Sprinkle nuts on bottom of pan.
• Mix all ingredients (except for topping) with electric beater for 2 minutes.
• Pour over nuts.
• Bake at 325 for 45 to 50 minutes.
• Make glaze right before cake comes out of the oven.
• Put glaze ingredients in small pan on stove until it boils.
• Boil for two minutes.
• As soon as cake comes out of oven pour glaze over it.
• Leave cake in pan for 15 minutes and then take out of pan.
• Sprinkle with powered sugar if desired.