I have to admit something- despite owning two Instant Pots I have never made Instant Pot Cheesecake. Now this vintage recipe does not use a pressure cooker but it also does not use Cream Cheese- instead, it uses cottage cheese and evaporated milk. I’m actually tempted to make this but with Lent starting tomorrow and not going anywhere for the foreseeable future (thanks Covid) I’m not going to try it. Anyone out there up for the challenge?
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)
Bake at 375° for 25-30 minutes. Makes one 9" triple layer cake
Cook Time30 minutesmins
Course: after church coffee hour, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake, chocolate cake
Equipment
Set of 3 nine-inch cake pans
Ingredients
3squares unsweetened chocolate
2¼cupssifted cake flour
2teaspoonsbaking soda
½teaspoonsalt
½cupbutter or margarine
2¼cupsfirmly packed brown sugar
3eggs
2teaspoonsvanilla
½cupbuttermilk
1cupboiling 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.
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
2squares unsweetened chocolate
2tablespoonsbutter or margarine
1cup 10X confectioners’ powdered sugarsifted
¼teaspoonsalt
1egg
1cup cream for whipping
1teaspoonvanilla
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
The roots of Kenmore Presbyterian Church run deep in the City of Buffalo, the Village of Kenmore, and the Town of Tonawanda. On April 6, 1877, Miss Ada Chalmers began a Sunday School with six in attendance. This Sunday School met in an old log house on Amherst Street near Delaware Avenue. Then, it moved to an unoccupied house on Amherst Street and became a mission of Westminster Presbyterian Church. Next, it met in a P.S. 21 on Hertel Avenue where it remained until Christmas 1887 when it moved into a former tavern on the corner of Hertel and Delaware Avenue.
The Superintendent of the Sunday School, Henry S. Larned expressed hope that the Sunday School would evolve into a chapel. This hope saw its fulfillment in 1890 when Kenmore developer, Louis P.A. Eberhardt donated a site on the northeast corner of Delaware and East Hazeltine Avenues to establish the Kenmore chapel. Westminster Presbyterian Church accepted the offer and the Kenmore Chapel was dedicated in 1891. It served as a mission church until November 22, 1894 when 34 persons requested the Presbytery establish Kenmore Presbyterian Church. The presbytery installed the Reverend George Marsh as the church’s first pastor and the congregation elected three elders.
The church worshipped in the original wood frame church until February 1926 when the current church building was dedicated. In 1948, the church added a second building to provide more educational space, two pastor’s studies, additional offices, and a dining room and kitchen. Also, at this time, the church purchased a new pipe organ by the Schlicker Organ Company. In 1963, the church expanded again, tearing down the gym to erect an educational building. During this time, the sanctuary underwent a major renovation.
https://www.kenpres.org/history
I’ve already gone ahead and posted this recipe on reddit and there was a concern raised about raw eggs. It looks like the eggs can be optional, so you can decide your own acceptable risk of using raw eggs and it won’t super affect the final product.
I’ve already posted this on reddit- one concern someone raised is that the recipe requires a raw egg yolk in the cream. I have found other versions on the web and it looks like the yolks are optional (in case you are concerned about the minor risk of salmonella)
