Recipe Wanted

[Scarberry2003]

My aunt used to make a multi layer cake called a Ribbon cake. Every other layer was made with flour that had been browned in the oven prior to use.
The icing was a cooked icing that made a hard candy like shell over the cake. It had up to 8 very thin layer to it and tasted sort of like a spice cake.

If anyone has a recipe like I have described PLEASE send it to me. She used to make me one for my birthday each year, and since she passed about 8 years ago, I haven't had one since and no one in the family can find the recipe.

Thanks in advance.

It was a very time consuming and difficult cake to make, but it was well worth the effort

[pk]

I tried to find a cake like the one you are asking about but could find nothing that comes close. One thing you could do is write in to the Taste of Home Magazine asking if anyone has heard of this or can help you.

pk

[CarolsCritterCare]

I asked around and this is what I got from my southern friends......
Carol


"We call that a Smith Island Cake where I'm from. There are of course, several different variaties of Ribbon Cake"


Ten Layer Cake (Smith Island Cake)
Recipe by Betty Miles

1. Prepare 1 box of Yellow Duncan Hines Moist Cake Mix according to the instructions on the box.
2. To make the layers, pour 8 large tablespoons (the kind you would normally use in the kitchen) into 9 inch grease pans.
3. Bake the pans at 350 degrees for 8 minutes.

Banana Icing Ingredients:
1. 2 medium bananas
2. 1 1/2 box 10X confectioners sugar
3. 1/2 stick of butter
4. Bottle of milk

To Make Icing:
1. Soften butter and mash bananas into butter with a fork
2. Take a mixer and add 10X sugar a little at a time using enough milk to thin it so that it's spreadable.
3. Spread the icing in between the layers (as many as you want), and then spread icing on the outside of the cake.

Chocolate Icing for the Smith Island Cake
1. Take a stick of butter and melt it in a pot on the stove.
2. Add 5 tablespoons of cocoa.
3. Add 1 tablespoon of vanilla
4. Add a pinch of salt
5. Add 1 cup of milk
6. Add 1 box of 10X confectioners sugar
7. Cook for about 6 mins or until the icing pulls away from the pan.

Frosting

2 sticks butter
2-12 oz. cans evaporated milk
8 heaping Tablespoons unsweetened Cocoa
2 lbs. confectioners Sugar

Melt butter. Stir in evaporated milk (off heat).
Whisk in Cocoa until smooth, return to heat and cook for approximately 10 minutes. DO NOT BOIL or Scorch.
Remove from heat and whisk in confectioners sugar slowly.
Cook slowly until thickened and will stick to back of a spoon or to the whisk (It will form a ribbon when you drizzle a spoonful onto mixture while cooking).
Approx time: 45 minutes.
Cake


OR

2 boxes Duncan Hines butter cake mix
2 sticks butter
8 eggs
1-12 oz. can evaporated milk
1 1/2 + cups whole milk
2 tsp vanilla



Preheat oven to 350°

Mix evaporated milk and enough whole milk to make 2 3/4 cups.
Place cake mixes, eggs, butter, vanilla and half of the milk mixture in large mixing bowl. Stir very slowly to blend.
Mix on low speed for approx. 5 min. add the rest of the milk and blend on med high for 10 minutes or until a smooth cake consistency. ( 10 min....will form ribbon)

Spray 9" cake pans.
Spread 1 cup cake batter into pans evenly.
Bake 10 minutes *(will slightly brown and begin to release from the sides of pan)

Repeat this until you have 10 layers.
To ice the cake
Take one slightly cooled layer and spread with cooled frosting. Add crushed candy randomly on layer. (Reese cups, snickers, milky ways, or whatever your favorite is—candy is optional as well )
Add next layers, frosting, candy, and repeat process till the 10th layer.
Do not add candy to final layer.
Finish frosting the cake and sides. May have to wait to ice top and sides until the icing cools.
Enjoy !

[Scarberry2003]

Carol,

Not the one I was looking for,, but OMG am I gonna try the ones you posted, they sound SINFUL!!!!!!!!!!!

The cake my aunt made was entirely from scratch, and she browned the flour in the oven for half the layers,, stunk up the kitchen but it was worth it.

The frosting was a white candy like shell, a cooked icing that when cooled formed a candy shell over the cake. Tasted similar to the "Seafoam candy" that she used to make also.

[CarolsCritterCare]

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