Cake Recipes

[Mookie]

NP - take your time. My thighs are in no hurry

What I'm looking for is kind've hard to explain. A local bakery used to carry what they called "Old Fashioned Fudge Cake" that was fabulous. It was dark, fudgey and really moist with a thick soft fudge frosting. I'm not a great from scratch baker so I don't know if it's my skills or the recipes I've tried but I haven't been able to make a good one. They either were super dense and heavy or not fudge like. I can't remember the frosting exactly but I don't think it was the typical powdered sugar or buttercream type either. It tasted like soft fudge. If you think yours sounds anything like that I'd like to try it. As there are soooooo many recipes and I don't know enough about baking to figure out what recipes might be like that.

BTW - My birthday (50 ) is in a couple weeks so you could just drop one off if you prefer!!!

 

[classwife]

I'll find one and bring it right up to ya !

 

[funnyfarm]

I'll find one and bring it right up to ya !

OK, Classy, I'll bake it and you swing by, pick it up and run it on up there!

Mookie, I'm a'huntin it as we speak! Know whatcha mean about your thighs, to -- one of the reasons I don't bake like I used to! Ha!

 

[sidetrack]

Mookie...do you have a bundt pan? if not, beg borrow or steal one for this recipe.

CAKE
¾ C. Dutch processed cocoa powder + extra for dusting pan
½ C. boiling water
2 oz. bittersweet chocolate
2 C. flour
2 C. pecans or walnuts chopped fine
2 C. powdered sugar
1 tsp. salt
5 large eggs, room temperature
1 tbl. vanilla extract
1 C. granulated sugar
¾ C. light brown sugar, packed
2½ sticks unsalted butter, softened

GLAZE
¾ C. heavy cream
¼ C. light corn syrup
8 oz. bittersweet chocolate
½ tsp vanilla extract

For the cake: Adjust the oven rack to the lower-middle position and heat the oven to 350°F. Grease 12-C. Bundt Pan and dust with (extra) Cocoa powder. Pour boiling water over chocolate in medium bowl and whisk until smooth. Cool to room temperature. Whisk cocoa powder, flour, nuts, powdered sugar and salt in large bowl. Beat eggs and vanilla in large measuring cup.
With electric mixer on medium-high, beat granulated sugar, brown sugar and butter until fluffy, about 2 minutes. On low speed, add egg mixture until combined, about 30 seconds. Add chocolate mixture and beat until incorporated, about 30 seconds. Beat in flour mixture until just combined, about 30 seconds
Scrape batter into prepared pan, smooth batter, and bake until edges are beginning to pull away from pan, about 45 minutes. Cool upright in pan on wire rack for 1½ hr., then invert onto serving plate and cool completely, at least 2 hr.
For the glaze: Cook cream, corn syrup, and chocolate in small saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly, until smooth. Stir in vanilla and set aside until slightly thickened, about 30 min. Drizzle glaze over cake and let set for at least 10 min. Cake can be stored at room temperature for up to 2 days.
Hint.....I couldn't find dutch processed choc so I used Hershey's special dark choc. powder.

 

[classwife]

I did find a few recipes:
Old Fashioned Fudge Cake Recipe - Allrecipes.com

The pic on this one looks better !
Old Fashioned Fudge Cake Recipe from Kimberly

 

[funnyfarm]

Mookie, I'm still searching -- I used to be fanatically organized -- now the word's not even in my dictionary! Your description sounds exACTly like my cake, tho everyone experiences things differently. My icing is nearly identical to my homemade fudge (which is the same recipe Fudgey uses and she can tell you, it's the BOMB!), just slightly different proportions and cooking time to make it softer. Sidetrack's recipe sounds quite different, but that doesn't mean it won't turn out very similar. I'll check the ones Classy found, too, in the meantime. Sooner or later, tho, I'll find mine!! Might have loaned it to my son -- it's his fav -- I'll check on that, too.

 

[funnyfarm]

Okay, Mookie, before I start the search again, neither of the recipes Classy found sound like it either, BUT, the allrecipes.com has a recipe for Wellesley Fudge cake (version I) that sounds just like it. It doesn't have the icing recipe, however, and none of their that I found matched up. Don't give up hope -- I'll be in touch!

 

[Mookie]

I did find a few recipes:
Old Fashioned Fudge Cake Recipe - Allrecipes.com

The pic on this one looks better !
Old Fashioned Fudge Cake Recipe from Kimberly

OMG - the one from Kimberly looks sooooooo good! It wouldn't give me the full recipe but I will find it!

Thanks!

 

[Mookie]

Okay, Mookie, before I start the search again, neither of the recipes Classy found sound like it either, BUT, the allrecipes.com has a recipe for Wellesley Fudge cake (version I) that sounds just like it. It doesn't have the icing recipe, however, and none of their that I found matched up. Don't give up hope -- I'll be in touch!

The Wellesley cake has the same coloring but the frosting is much darker than the one I'm looking for.

 

[Mookie]

@sidetrack - the brown sugar addition sounds interesting. I wonder how using brown instead of white effects the taste. Could be very yummy as I love brown sugar.

 

[sidetrack]

@sidetrack - the brown sugar addition sounds interesting. I wonder how using brown instead of white effects the taste. Could be very yummy as I love brown sugar.

Makes it a bit more chewy just like in cookies and adds to the richness of flavor. This cake is to die for! It originally came from the "Cook's Country" on PBS. They have the best recipes! It looked so good I borrowed a Bundt pan from a friend of mine and I thought I would give it a whirl. It was out of this world crazy good. I now have my very own Bundt pan just for this cake.

 

[funnyfarm]

sidetrack, you sound like me........I have a special pot we call "the fudge pot," for making fudge!! It rarely gets used for anything else! I agree with you about the bsugar, it has that effect -- I usually like things with bsugar better than white.

Mookie, the icing will be darker or lighter depending on the chocolate used. We like darker, richer chocolate in our house, so I use Hershey's Special Dark choc chips in most things, but regular semi-sweet will give a more traditional flavor and lighter color. I'm going back thru my recipes this a.m. (I hope) -- hafta take critters to the vet, but should be able to anyway.

 

[Mookie]

Makes it a bit more chewy just like in cookies and adds to the richness of flavor. This cake is to die for! It originally came from the "Cook's Country" on PBS. They have the best recipes! It looked so good I borrowed a Bundt pan from a friend of mine and I thought I would give it a whirl. It was out of this world crazy good. I now have my very own Bundt pan just for this cake.

I have three birthdays in the next few weeks so maybe I'll make this for one of them. Not sure about a glaze though. I am a frosting lover. Do you think a fudgey frosting would be good on this?

 

[Mookie]

Reminds me of a funny story. Years ago I had made a 9x13 cake with frosting late one evening. The next afternoon I went to get it and couldn't find it anywhere. I searched and searched but there was no cake to be found. Finally I thought I was either loosing my mind, having flash backs from my younger years (LOL!), or had dreamt it. Fast forward........a few days later I was vacuuming and found the cake under the dining room table with all the frosting licked off and a few tiny little finger prints. My 6 y.o. pleaded the fifth!

 

[sidetrack]

I have three birthdays in the next few weeks so maybe I'll make this for one of them. Not sure about a glaze though. I am a frosting lover. Do you think a fudgey frosting would be good on this?

Frosting would be way too much. This is a ganache topping. Boston cream pies have a ganache topping on them, you wouldn't put whipped frosting on that would you? If it was a choice of a whipped frosting or nothing I would go with nothing, its that good on its own. JMHO

 

[Fudgey]

Reminds me of a funny story. Years ago I had made a 9x13 cake with frosting late one evening. The next afternoon I went to get it and couldn't find it anywhere. I searched and searched but there was no cake to be found. Finally I thought I was either loosing my mind, having flash backs from my younger years (LOL!), or had dreamt it. Fast forward........a few days later I was vacuuming and found the cake under the dining room table with all the frosting licked off and a few tiny little finger prints. My 6 y.o. pleaded the fifth!

 

[Mookie]

Frosting would be way too much. This is a ganache topping. Boston cream pies have a ganache topping on them, you wouldn't put whipped frosting on that would you? If it was a choice of a whipped frosting or nothing I would go with nothing, its that good on its own. JMHO

Well.....yes I probably would......I'd bathe in chocolate. This is a woman who takes choc chips, candy bars, M&M's, etc, places them in a bowl, melts in the microwave and eats it with a spoon and a tall glass of milk! Yummm!!!!! Done that since I was a kid. Solid easter bunnies are dipped in hot coffee or hot chocolate and sucked on like a lollipop! Hot fudge heated and eaten straight from the jar - who needs ice cream?!?!?!?

Anywho.......is it because this type of cake is very heavy, dense, chocolate so frosting would be over the top?

 

[Fudgey]

Well.....yes I probably would......I'd bathe in chocolate. This is a woman who takes choc chips, candy bars, M&M's, etc, places them in a bowl, melts in the microwave and eats it with a spoon and a tall glass of milk! Yummm!!!!! Done that since I was a kid. Solid easter bunnies are dipped in hot coffee or hot chocolate and sucked on like a lollipop! Hot fudge heated and eaten straight from the jar - who needs ice cream?!?!?!?

Anywho.......is it because this type of cake is very heavy, dense, chocolate so frosting would be over the top?

And I thought I was chocolate crazy!!!!

 

[sidetrack]

Well.....yes I probably would......I'd bathe in chocolate. This is a woman who takes choc chips, candy bars, M&M's, etc, places them in a bowl, melts in the microwave and eats it with a spoon and a tall glass of milk! Yummm!!!!! Done that since I was a kid. Solid easter bunnies are dipped in hot coffee or hot chocolate and sucked on like a lollipop! Hot fudge heated and eaten straight from the jar - who needs ice cream?!?!?!?

Anywho.......is it because this type of cake is very heavy, dense, chocolate so frosting would be over the top?

Try it once the way the recipes reads, after that you can always doctor it to suit you but I bet you won't. Think melted M&M'/fudge over the cake and you just about have it with this cake. And by the way there is absolutely nothing wrong with microwaving M&M's or eating fudge out of a jar! To me ice cream is just a vehicle for fudge and should be used sparingly. Somewhere I read that the perfect man would be one that was dipped in chocolate.....I concur. This cake is like something you would get in a fine dinning restaurant. This is an uber CHOCOLATE cake. Don't like chocolate(?) this is not the cake for you. This to me is a special cake.

 

[Fudgey]

Try it once the way the recipes reads, after that you can always doctor it to suit you but I bet you won't. And by the way there is absolutely nothing wrong with microwaving M&M's or eating fudge out of a jar! Somewhere I read that the perfect man would be one that was dipped in chocolate.....I concur.

And peanut butter