Buttermilk Date Cake Food

BUTTERMILK POUND CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour and baking soda; add alternately with buttermilk and beat well. , Pour into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 325° until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 70 minutes. Cool in pan for 15 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar if desired.

DATE NUT LOAF CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x5 inch loaf pan. In a saucepan over medium heat, bring dates and water to a boil. Stir in 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup sugar until melted. Remove from heat and stir in baking soda. Let cool for 10 minutes.
• Place date mixture into a large bowl. Blend in flour, eggs and vanilla. Stir in chopped walnuts. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely. Serve slices with Warm Sauce.
• To make Warm Sauce: In a saucepan over medium heat, combine 1/4 cup butter with cream and brown sugar. Heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils and sugar is dissolved.

DATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9 inch square pan. In a saucepan, combine water and raisins. Bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in chopped dates and baking soda. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together 1/2 cup butter and 3/4 cup white sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Beat in the flour, salt and date mixture. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Remove cake from oven, and set oven to Broil.
• Make Topping: In a saucepan, melt 4 tablespoons of butter. Stir in brown sugar, cream and chopped nuts. Spread mixture over warm cake and place under broiler until lightly browned, about 3 minutes. Watch carefully - it burns easily under the broiler. Cool before serving.

MOIST DATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 C). Grease and flour two 8 inch round cake pans. Set aside. Put dates in a bowl with soda and pour boiling water on top. Set a side.
• In a large mixing bowl, mix together 1 cup sugar, 2 1/2 cups flour and 1 cup chopped walnuts. Add egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla, pinch of salt and tablespoon butter. Mix to combine. Finally, stir in chopped dates with liquid. Mix well. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake for 25 to 30 minutes. Cake will pull away from sides of pans and be golden brown.
• In a medium saucepan, combine buttermilk, 1 cup sugar, pinch of salt and 4 tablespoons flour. Cook on medium heat until thickened. Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla and remaining cup of walnuts.
• Spread mixture between layers and on top of cake. Let filling run down the sides of cake.

AUNTIE'S BUTTERMILK CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease and flour 1- 13 x9 inch square cake pan.
• Cream shortening and sugar together and add 1 tablespoon buttermilk.
• Sift flour three times and add baking powder and salt.
• Combine 1 1/2 cups buttermilk with 1/2 teaspoon baking soda. Alternate adding buttermilk to shortening mixture with flour.
• Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into batter. Stir in the vanilla and almond extracts. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 to 40 minutes. Once cool frost with frosting of your choice. If you want you can add orange extract to the frosting, about 1 teaspoon.

EASY DATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degF.
• Prepare a 13 x 9 x 2 inch cake pan.
• Mix tog chopped dates, soda and boiling water and let stand.
• Mix tog butter, sugar and vanilla, then add the date mixture.
• Add the flour and chopped nuts.
• Pour into prepared cake pan and bake at 350 degF for approximately 35 minutes. Test cake with toothpick to see if done.Cool in pan.

BUTTERMILK DATE CAKE

Steps:

• Sprinkle dates with soda; cover with boiling water and let stand for 30 minutes.
• Cream shortening and sugar until light.
• Add vanilla and egg; beat well.
• Sift flour and salt together.
• Add flour mixture and date mixture alternately to creamed mixture, beating well after each addition.
• Stir in pecans.
• Pour into greased and lightly floured 9 x 13 inch baking dish.
• Bake 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Let cool in dish.
• ICING.
• Over Medium heat.
• Melt butter; stir in flour; slowly stir in buttermilk; simmer, sitrring until slightly thickened.
• Add sugar and continue cooking until sugar is dissolved.
• Stir in pecans and vanilla.
• Spread on cake while cake is still warm.
• May be frozen after completely cooled.

TO DIE FOR " PRUNE CAKE" WITH BUTTERMILK GLAZE

Steps:

• Mix with electric mixer the following:.
• 2 cups of flour.
• 1 1/2 cups of sugar.
• 1 cup canola oil.
• 1 cup buttermilk.
• 1 cup baby food prunes.
• 3 eggs.
• 1 tsp vanilla.
• 1 tsp baking soda.
• 1 tsp cinnamon.
• 1/2 tsp salt.
• and chopped pecans.
• Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour at 300 degrees.
• in a lightly greased and floured 9x13 baking pan.
• In the last 5 minutes of baking, make the sauce to pour over cake IMMEDIATELY after removing from the oven.
• Sauce:.
• combine all in a medium sauce pan:.
• 1 cup sugar.
• 1/2 cup of buttermilk.
• 1/4 cup of butter.
• 2 tsp vanilla.
• 1/2 tsp baking soda.
• DO NOT BEAT! Boil for 1 minute.

CHOCOLATE BUTTERMILK SHEATH CAKE

Steps:

• For cake: Mix flour and sugar together in a large mixing bowl.
• In saucepan mix water, cocoa, salt, and butter.
• Bring to a boil.
• Pour over flour and sugar.
• Add buttermilk, eggs, soda, and vanilla.
• Mix until blended.
• Pour into large greased cookie sheet.
• Bake in 375° oven for 20 minutes.
• For icing: While cake is cooking bring butter, cocoa, and milk to a boil in a small saucepan.
• Remove from heat; add sugar& vanilla.
• Spread on HOT out of the oven cake.

BUTTERMILK CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Dissolve espresso powder in boiling water; let cool. Grease a 9 x13" cake pan; line bottom with waxed paper.
• In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Beat in buttermilk, eggs, oil, vanilla and espresso mixture; beat for 2 minutes.
• Pour into prepared pan. Bake at 350 F for about 45 minutes or until top springs back when touched lightly.
• Let cool in pan or rack for 20 minutes. Remove from pan let cool completely on rack. Spread with Chocolate Icing.
• Chocolate Icing.
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted.
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar.
• 4 tsp cornstarch.
• 1/2 cup buttermilk.
• 1/4 cup corn syrup.
• 1/2 tsp vanilla.
• In heavy saucepan, mix cocoa, sugar and cornstarch; whisk in buttermilk and syrup until smooth.
• Whisking constantly, bring to a simmer over medium heat. Simmer for 2 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla.
• Let cool, stirring occasionally, for 45 minutes or until thickened.
• Makes 1 cup.

CARAMEL-DATE UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• For topping:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Place sugar and butter in 9-inch-diameter metal cake pan with 3-inch-high sides. Whisk over medium heat until sugar dissolves, butter melts, and sauce is bubbling thickly, about 3 minutes. Whisk in lemon juice and salt. Remove from heat and cool 5 minutes.
• Arrange date quarters in 3 concentric circles in caramel, rounded side down, covering completely.
• For cake:
• Sift first 4 ingredients into medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter and both sugars in large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla, then eggs, 1 at a time. Beat in dry ingredients in 3 additions alternately with buttermilk in 2 additions. Spoon batter over topping in pan.
• Place cake pan on large baking sheet. Bake cake until puffed and golden and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 50 minutes.
• Cool cake in pan on rack 15 minutes. Cut around pan sides and invert warm cake onto platter. Carefully lift off pan. Return any dates that stick to pan to top of cake. Scrape any caramel left in pan over cake.
• Serve cake warm or at room temperature with whipped cream.

BEST BUTTERMILK BIRTHDAY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F and grease and flour 2 nine inch round cake pans.
• In a medium bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
• In a large bowl, beat the butter, shortening and sugar together and whip until creamy. Do not overbeat.
• Beat in the eggs and the vanilla extract.
• Slowly add half of the flour mixture to the butter mixture and combine well.
• Add buttermilk and stir until combined.
• Add the remaining flour mixture and stir until all ingredients are well mixed. Again, be careful not to overbeat.
• Pour into prepared pans.
• Reduce oven temp to 300 and bake for 40-50 minutes until cake is done in the middle.
• Cool and frost with your favorite icing.

BUTTERMILK COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine flour, sugars, oil and salt; mix well. Remove 1/2 cup and set aside. To remaining flour mixture, add egg, buttermilk and baking soda; mix well. Pour into a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. , To reserved flour mixture add all topping ingredients; mix well. Sprinkle over batter. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until cake tests done.