Blue Ribbon Butter Cake Food

BLUE-RIBBON BUTTER CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition., Pour into a greased and floured 10-in. tube pan. Bake at 350° until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 55-70 minutes. Cool 10 minutes. Run a knife around edges and center tube of pan. Invert cake onto a wire rack over waxed paper. , For sauce, combine the sugar, butter and water in a small saucepan. Cook over medium heat just until butter is melted and sugar is dissolved. Remove from the heat; stir in extracts., Poke holes in the top of the warm cake; spoon 1/4 cup sauce over cake. Let stand until sauce is absorbed. Repeat twice. Poke holes into sides of cake; brush remaining sauce over sides. Cool completely.

KENTUCKY BLUE RIBBON ALL-BUTTER POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a tube pan with some butter and dust lightly with flour.
• Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.
• Combine sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition. Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk. Mix in vanilla extract. Pour batter into the prepared tube pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Invert onto a wire rack and let cool completely, about 30 minutes.

BLUE RIBBON CARROT CAKE [WITH BUTTERMILK GLAZE]

Steps:

• For Buttermilk Glaze:.
• In small saucepan over high heat, combine sugar, baking soda, buttermilk, butter, and corn syrup.
• Bring to a boil.
• Cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
• Set aside until cake is baked.
• For cake:.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Generously grease a 9x13 baking dish or 2 9" cake pans.
• Sift flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt together.
• Set aside.
• In large bowl, beat eggs.
• Add oil, buttermilk, sugar and vanilla and mix well.
• Add flour mixture, pineapple, carrots, coconut, raisins and walnuts and stir well.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake for 45-55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Remove cake from oven and slowly pour over buttermilk glaze over hot cake.
• Cool cake in pan until buttermilk glaze is totally absorbed, about 15 minutes.
• For Frosting:.
• In large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until fluffy.
• Add vanilla, powdered sugar, orange juice and orange peel.
• Mix until smooth.
• Frost cake and refrigerate until frosting is set.
• Serve cake chilled.

BLUE RIBBON WHIPPING CREAM POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F(175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan. Set aside.
• Cream together the sugar and butter until light. Continue beating and add 7 eggs, one at a time; beating well after each egg
• In a separate bowl, mix together flour and cornstarch. Beat half of the flour mixture into the egg and sugar mixture.
• Beat in 1/2 cup whipping cream, and then beat in the remainder of the flour mixture. Finish by beating in 1/2 cup more of whipping cream and vanilla.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake for about 60 to 75 minutes. Cool on rack for 10 minutes before turning it out onto a serving plate.

BLUE RIBBON BUTTER CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325. Grease and flour a ten inch bundt pan.
• Add the sugar and butter to a large bowl and beat until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add the buttermilk and vanilla, and mix to combine.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients, and mix until just combine.
• Pour the cake batter into the prepared pan, spreading evenly, Bake for 60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven and turn out onto a cooling rack. Let cool for 10-15 minutes, then poke the top of the cake with a fork.
• While the cake is cooling, make the glaze by adding the sugar, butter, water, and vanilla to a medium saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring frequently, until the butter is melted and the sugar is dissolved. Pour the glaze over the warm cake. Let the cake cool before serving.

BLUE RIBBON POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg and set aside.
• Cream butter until very light and fluffy, then add sugar gradually, creaming all the while. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition just enough to mix.
• Combine the milk and the flavoring (lemon, vanilla or lemon and vanilla). Add the sifted dry ingredients to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients.
• Pour into a well-buttered-and-floured 10-inch tube pan, filling to within about 2 inches of the top. Bake in a 300 degree oven for about 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until cake just begins to pull from the sides of the pan and a finger pressed gently on the top of the cake leaves a print that vanishes slowly.
• Cool cake upright in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then turn out on the rack and cool to room temperature before cutting. Serve as is or garnish, if you like with a dusting of confectioners' sugar and a few red, ripe strawberries

BLUE RIBBON RED VELVET CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Line bottoms of 2 greased 9-in. round pans with parchment; grease parchment. Beat the first 5 ingredients until well blended. In another bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking cocoa and baking soda; gradually beat into oil mixture., Transfer batter to prepared pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 25-30 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to wire racks; remove parchment. Cool completely., Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla until blended. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar until smooth. Using a long serrated knife, trim tops of cakes; set tops aside. Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate. Spread with 3/4 cup frosting. Top with remaining cake layer, bottom side up. Frost top and sides with remaining frosting., Break cake tops into pieces. Pulse in a food processor until fine crumbs form. Decorate cake with crumbs as desired.

BLUE-RIBBON COFFEE CAKE FARMHOUSE STYLE IN THE MIDWEST!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325. Spray (or grease & flour) a 10-inch fluted (Bundt) pan; set aside.
• In a small bowl, mix Streusel Ingredients; set aside.
• In medium bowl, mix Dry Cake Ingredients; set aside.
• In large bowl, stir together Wet Cake Ingredients EXCEPT sour cream; add dry ingredients, stir just until moistened, then add sour cream and stir until smooth.
• Spoon ONE THIRD of batter into prepped pan, spread evenly. Sprinkle ONE THIRD of streusel over this. Repeat with remaining batter and streusel; use a buttered spatula to assist with the spreading.
• Bake for 45-50 minutes (wooden pick comes out clean).
• Cool in pan for 10 minutes; invert onto serving plate.
• Serve warm . . . . but leave some for the next day (it improves with aging at room temp (covered).

BLUE RIBBON APPLE BUTTER CHEESECAKE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*.
• Grease a 9x13" baking pan or coat with nonstick spray.
• In a large bowl, with electric mixer on medium speed, beat together the butter, maple syrup and salt until lightened and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
• Beat or stir the flour into the butter mixture just until evenly incorporated.
• Firmly press the dough into the pan.
• Lay a sheet of wax paper over the dough, then press it out to the edges until flat and smooth on top. Peel off and discard the paper. Using a fork, prick the dough all over.
• Bake in the upper third of the oven for 17-21 minutes or until tinged with brown at the edges.
• Transfer the pan to a wire rack and let cool briefly.
• Using a table knife, spread the apple butter evenly over the dough.
• CREAM CHEESE LAYER.
• In a food processor, process the cream, maple syrup, egg and vanilla until well blended and completely smooth, about 30 seconds, stopping and scraping down the bowl sides several times or beat in bowl of electric mixer on low speed, the cream cheese, until very smooth, add the maple syrup, egg and vanilla and continue beating until well blended.
• Pour the cream-cheese mixture over the apple butter, rap the pan or generously shake it to spread the cream cheese mixture out to the edges.
• Bake in upper third of oven for 25-30 minutes or until the cream cheese layer is beginning to brown and appears barely set when the pan is jiggled.
• Transfer the pan to a wire rack and let stand until cooled. Sift the cinnamon over the top.
• Refrigerate until chilled and firm, about 1 hour.
• Using a large sharp knife, cut the slab into 18 bars, wipe the knife clean between cuts.
• Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week or freeze for up to 1 month -- If freezing, leave slab whole, then cut into bars when partially thawed.

BLUE-RIBBON PEANUT BUTTER TORTE

Steps:

• Grease three 9-in. round baking pans; set aside. In a large bowl, cream the butter, peanut butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla., Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Pour into prepared pans (pans will have a shallow fill)., Bake at 350° for 17-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks., For filling, in a large heavy saucepan, bring cream and brown sugar to a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1-2 minutes or until sugar is dissolved. Remove from the heat; stir in chocolate and peanut butter until blended. Transfer to a small bowl; chill until mixture achieves spreading consistency. , For frosting, in a large bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until blended. Beat in vanilla. Gradually beat in 1-1/4 cups confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. In a small bowl, beat cream and remaining confectioners' sugar until stiff peaks form; fold into cream cheese mixture., Spread filling between layers. Frost top and sides of cake. Garnish with chopped candy bars and peanuts. Store in the refrigerator.

BLUE-RIBBON APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to center position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly butter 9-inch cake pan.
• For the Apples: Place butter in large heavy-bottomed skillet over medium-high heat. Once butter has stopped foaming, add sugar and stir to combine. Continue to cook until sugar turns dark brown (it should look like dark brown sugar), about 2 minutes, swirling pan occasionally. Add salt and apples and fold with spatula to combine. Cook, stirring often, until apples have softened slightly and juices are thickened and syrupy, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove pan from heat and spoon apples into prepared cake pan.
• For the Cake:.
• In small bowl, whisk together 1/4 cup sour cream, egg, yolk, and vanilla until well combined.
• Place flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in large bowl. Use electric mixer on low speed for 15 seconds to blend. Add butter and remaining 1/4 cup sour cream and mix on low speed until dry ingredients are moistened, 1 to 2 minutes. Increase speed to medium and mix for 2 minutes. Add sour cream/egg mixture and beat on medium-high, scraping down sides of bowl, until batter is homogeneous and fluffy, about 1 minute.
• Spoon batter over apples and gently spread out to thin layer that covers apples. Bake until cake is dark golden brown, feels set, and cake tester comes out clean when inserted in center, 35 to 40 minutes. Transfer pan to wire rack and let cool for 5 minutes.
• Place serving plate over top of pan and invert. Let cake sit inverted for about 1 minute without tapping or shaking pan. Cake will slowly detach itself. Once cake is on platter, gently remove pan. Serve warm (not hot) or at room temperature.

BLUE RIBBON BANANA CAKE WITH CREAMY NUT FILLING

Steps:

• Cream together sugar and shortening.
• Add eggs.
• Beat in mashed bananas.
• Sift dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture.
• Add buttermilk and vanilla.
• Stir in chopped nuts.
• Turn into 2 greased and floured 9 inch layer pans.
• Sprinkle 1/2 cup coconut on each layer.
• Bake in 375°F oven 25 to 30 minutes.
• Combine sugar flour butter and cream in saucepan cook until thickened stirring constantly.
• Add nuts vanilla and salt. Cool and put between cake layers.