Daughter's 30th Birthday Cake

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Comment by Tracy Deadman on October 26, 2011 at 9:27am

This looks lovely June. I've heard of this icing before - in fact I think I've heard Linda talk about it on a red Velvet discussion. Am I right? Can you let me have the recipe for this icing as I'm intrigued. The icing I will be using is swiss meringue buttercream, I don't think it's quite as dense as normal buttercream so I'm hoping it will do the job of covering Rosies pink spacestation-esque house. Txx

Comment by Linda Wolff on August 30, 2011 at 9:00pm

Thank you June...have an awesome holiday!

Comment by June Kowalczyk on August 30, 2011 at 8:57pm

I am holidays Linda until Friday or Saturday this week. When I get home, I will surely send you the recipe.

Comment by Linda Wolff on August 30, 2011 at 3:39pm

Could you give me the full recipe? I thought I had that same recipe book, but it was a Search Light recipe book that was my Mom's and it is falling apart!

Comment by June Kowalczyk on August 30, 2011 at 8:48am

It is our families favorite cake  from a very old Sunbeam cookbook of the 1950's I doctored. Chocolate devil's food.   I add 2 heaping tblsp of good dutch cocoa, instead of just water, I add 2 tblsp of instant coffee to the water for dark coffee.  This brings out the chocolate flavor. Of course oil instead of butter/short, makes it moist.  My Mom made this for every family birthday, topped with whipped cream. I actually use the micro Linda to make the flour/milk mixture for icing.  You are essentially making a rue, a white sauce.  I use my whisk, and do it in 30 sec increments.  Hardest part for me, is waiting for it to "cool off"!!!  I am not the most patient person.  I have tried icings from "The Cake Bible".  Good book, intense though.  Just too much work for the taste as far as I am concerned.

Comment by Linda Wolff on August 29, 2011 at 8:30pm

I love that cooked flour icing too. It is my grandson's all time favorite. How do you make yours June? I used to make it by just cooking the flour and the milk and it would come out lumpy. Now I mix teh sugar in with the milk and flour-no more lumps! Was this a chocolate cake?

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