Mmm, cake!

[ppfuf]

My practically perfect apprentice came over Monday night, with a very silly cake pan in the shapes of castles. The pan, not so successful. The cake, fabulous! This recipe made more batter than would fit in the pan, so we made cupcakes. 
Castelette Cakes, from the Nordicware Castle Cakelette Pan wrapper:
1 3/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup butter
1 tesp almond extract
3 eggs
2 1/4 cups flour
3/4 tesp baking soda
1/8 tesp salt
3/4 cup evaporated milk
Heat oven to 350F. Grease and flour pan, set aside. (Or put paper cups in muffin pan.) In large bowl beat sugar, butter, almond extract and eggs. Beat three minutes on high speed, scraping down bowl often. In small bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Blend flour mix into butter mix, alternating with milk until blended. Divide batter evenly among cups in pan. Bake at 350F for 25-30 minutes until toothpick test is clean. Cool 15 mins in pan. Invert pan and remove cakes (ha!).  Cool completely. Decorate as desired. Makes six cakes (and five cupcakes!).
I'm going to make this again, maybe when we have a party next August, and forst them with this marzipan flavoured frosting.

Comments

[roswtr.livejournal.com]

Not so successful? Because of all the little fiddly details? I really want one of those pans....

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

This particular pan has tall towers on the castles, so getting the cakes out is a real challenge. I think also getting it to bake evenly would be difficult (but that seemed to work ok). I think you would be better off with the Multi-tier Cake Pan (http://www.kitchenkrafts.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_BP6633) and just decorating them with stiff fondant and banbers on toothpicks.

eeep!!!

[gormflaith.livejournal.com]

Practically perfect????
I may faint.
But, alas I need to finish the newsletter before I can faint.

Re: eeep!!!

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

I think I've always called you that in lj. I didn't know your lj handle until recently when you started posting again. I suppose I could just call you Mary Poppins (practically perfect in every way), and if I ever get a new apprentice I could call her Mrs Beeton. Or maybe that would not be funny to anyone but me. hmmmm. We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.