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Italian Love Cake

I am going to be honest here- I have never heard of the Italian Love Cake until I found this recipe card in a random recipe box that I found at Amvets. Should we tell Candy Rinaldo that the card she so nicely wrote out ended up at the thrift?
I did find some random websites that claimed that this cake was “made famous” by Mario Batali but this card appears to date before he made it famous. Who knows. It does look super-rich and sweet though.

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Italian Love Cake

Course: after church coffee hour, cake, Dessert
Cuisine: Italian
Keyword: cake, chocolate cake
Author: Candy Rinaldo

Ingredients

Cake layer

  • 1 chocolate cake mix (with pudding in it)
  • (additional ingredients as needed to for the cake mix)

Second Layer

  • 2 lbs Ricotta Cheese
  • 4 eggs
  • ¾ tsp sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Third Layer

  • 1 container Cool Whip
  • 1 package instant chocolate pudding
  • milk

Instructions

Cake Layer

  • Prepare cake as instructed on box.
  • Put in prepared 13"x9" pan

Second Layer

  • Mix and pour over cake batter.
  • Cook for 1 hour at 350°

Third Layer

  • Mix a little milk with pudding mix until smooth.
  • Add Cool Whip & amaretto (if desired) to reach desired consistency.
  • Pour over each piece when served.

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ABC Cookbook, Buffalo, Cake, Church (and other religious organizations) Cook Books & Recipes, UCC

South Buffalo Cake (who knew that there was a cake specific to South Buffalo?)

Today in things I had not heard of until today- the South Buffalo Cake. Who knew that there was a cake named after a neighborhood here in the 716. I don’t know what makes this particular cake so special to South Buffalo (to play along with stereotypes there is nothing Irish about it). I was only able to find two other hits with the name of this recipe- one (with a chocolate glaze) was on another recipe website and the other was someone asking about it.

One of the key things to remember when doing baking is to use the correct type of flour for the recipe. Cake flour (which is what is called for in this recipe) has a lower protein content (10%) than all-purpose (King Arthur is 11.7%) and bread flour (King Arthur is 12.7%)

south buffalo cake
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South Buffalo Cake

Cook Time1 hour
Course: after church coffee hour, cake, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake, dessert
Author: Mrs. E, Grobe Miller

Ingredients

  • 5 eggs
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 2 cups cake flour
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

  • Separate eggs.
  • Beat whites until stiff and fine grained, then gradually beat in 1 cup sugar.
  • Beat yolks until very light and to yolks add the second cup of sugar and the vanilla.
  • Sift flour, baking powder, and salt, add to yolks alternatively with the water, continue to beat.
  • Fold in egg whites and mix carefully.
  • Pour into ungreased cake pan.
  • Bake in a 350° oven for about 1 hour, then turn heat off and continue to bake for about 15 minutes more.
  • Remove from oven, invert and let hang until nearly cool, then loosen and pull from pan.
Buffalo Evening News, Cake, newspaper & magazine clippings, recipe, unknown source

Chocolate Ice Cream Cake aka Midcentury Modern food fun

The name of this recipe is so misleading- I expected for it to be an “ice cream cake”, not a chocolate cake with ice cream. This recipe can be tailored to your needs so easily. Want regular chocolate cake? Buy that mix. Need to go gluten-free? There is a mix for that. You can even make your own from scratch (see a list of cake recipes at the bottom of this post)

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CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM CAKE

Ingredients

  • 1 package chocolate cake mix (along with ingredients on package)
  • 1 quart vanilla ice cream
  • 3 egg whites
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

  • Bake cake, according to box directions, in a rectangular pan.
  • Cool and cut in half. (Save second half for another purpose.)
  • Place cake on waxed paper on a breadboard.
  • Set in freezer to chill.
  • Spoon ice cream over cake and chill until firm.
  • Beat whites until stiff adding a little salt and vanilla.
  • Add sugar gradually continuing to beat.
  • Spread over ice cream and place under heated broiler for a very few minutes to brown meringue.

Notes

This may be replaced in the freezer for a few minutes if it is necessary.
baking, Cake, chocolate, Desserts, newspaper & magazine clippings, recipe, unknown source

Fabulous Fudge Cake and Chocolate-Cream Frosting

Insert a super long story about how this Fabulous Fudge Cake recipe was handed down by generations of women. It wasn’t. It came in a 3 pronged folder with a bunch of other cut out recipes that I got at the Salvation Army (back when they still had the as-is store (shakes fist at Covid-19)

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Fabulous Fudge Cake

Bake at 375° for 25-30 minutes. Makes one 9" triple layer cake
Cook Time30 minutes
Course: after church coffee hour, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake, chocolate cake

Equipment

  • Set of 3 nine-inch cake pans

Ingredients

  • 3 squares unsweetened chocolate
  • 2¼ cups sifted cake flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup butter or margarine
  • 2¼ cups firmly packed brown sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • ½ cup buttermilk
  • 1 cup boiling water

Instructions

  • Grease bottoms of 3 nine inch layer-cake pans; line pans with Waxed paper; grease paper.
  • Melt chocolate in a small saucepan over very low heat; save for Step 5.
  • Sift cake flour, baking soda, and salt onto waxed paper.
  • Cream butter or margarine in a large bowl with a spoon or electric mixer at medium speed; gradually add sugar; beat until mixture is fluffy.
  • Beat in eggs, 1 at a time; beat until thick stir in vanilla and chocolate with spoon or mixer at low speed.
  • Add sifted dry ingredients, a third at a time alternately with buttermilk, stirring by hand or with mixer at low speed until just blended; stir in boiling water. Pour into pans.
  • Bake in moderate oven (375°) 25-30 minutes, or until centers spring back when lightly pressed with fingertip.
  • Cool in pans on wire racks 5 minutes; loosen around edges with knife; turn out onto racks; remove wax paper; cool completely. Put layers together and frost.
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CHOCOLATE-CREAM FROSTING

Makes enough to fill and frost 1 9″triple-layer cake
Course: after church coffee hour, cake
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake, chocolate, frosting

Equipment

  • double boiler

Ingredients

  • 2 squares unsweetened chocolate
  • 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
  • 1 cup 10X confectioners’ powdered sugar sifted
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup cream for whipping
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

  • Melt chocolate and butter or margarine on top of a large double boiler over hot, not boiling, water; beat in sugar, salt, and egg until smooth
  • Place the top of the double boiler over ice in a large bowl; start beating with an electric mixer or rotary beater, gradually adding cream; continue beating 3 to 4 minutes, or until fluffy-thick; stir in vanilla.
  • Keep frosting over ice as you work, Chill cake until serving time
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Sour Cream Chocolate Cake with added booze! Cake + booze= fun

Here is where I go on and on about the fluffy snowflake I saw outside of my window this morning and the purring of my cat. Google is a fickle creature and ranks sites with long & boring stories higher.

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SOUR CREAM CHOCOLATE CAKE

Cook Time45 minutes
Course: after church coffee hour, cake, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: alcohol, chocolate, chocolate cake
Servings: 12 slices

Equipment

  • 9" tube pan

Ingredients

Cake:

  • 1/4 pound butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 squares baking chocolate melted
  • 2 cups cake flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier or Cointreau

Chocolate Glaze:

  • 5 tablespoons butter
  • 4 tablespoons light corn syrup
  • 5 squares bittersweet chocolate grated

Instructions

Cake

  • Cream the butter and sugar.
  • Add the eggs and the melted chocolate and mix well.
  • Sift together the dry ingredients and add them to the batter alternately with the sour cream.
  • Add the vanilla and pour the batter into a buttered 9" tube pan.
  • Bake in a preheated 350° oven for 15 minutes, then raise the heat to 375°and bake for 30 minutes more.
  • Place cake on a rack, cool for 5 minutes, and then remove it from the pan.
  • When the cake is cool, sprinkle it with the orange-flavored liqueur.

Glaze

  • In a small saucepan, heat the butter and corn syrup until they are well blended.
  • Remove from the heat and stir in the grated chocolate.
  • Pour on the top of the cake.
  • It will spill down, and you can spread this evenly over the sides.