Heirloom Carrot Spoon Cake Food

SPOON CAKE

Steps:

• For the cake: Position an oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• Sift together the flour and cornstarch. Whisk together the sour cream, oil, sugar and egg in a large bowl until smooth, which will take 1 to 2 minutes.
• In a small pitcher or separate bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, vanilla, baking soda and baking powder. Add to the bowl and mix to combine.
• Add the dry mixture to the wet ingredients in two batches, stirring until just combined and no lumps of flour remain.
• Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake until a cake tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Put to one side while you make the frosting.
• For the gooey chocolate frosting: Combine the milk, chocolate and butter in a saucepot over medium-low heat. Stir until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth, about 3 minutes. Pour the frosting over the still-warm cake and serve immediately, eating with spoons straight from the pan.

FAMILY HEIRLOOM CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• In large bowl, beat oil, flour, sugars, eggs and vanilla.
• Add and mix in cinnamon, nutmeg, soda and salt.
• Mix in carrots.
• Fold/mix in pecans and raisins.
• Pour batter evenly into greased and floured 9" cake pans.
• Bake in 350° oven for 50-55 minutes til toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool 5-10 minutes, turn out onto rack to cool completely.
• For frosting:.
• Beat ingredients til smooth.
• Place 1 cake onto plate, frost top. Place second cake on top, frost sides and top of cake.
• I store this in my airtight tupperware cake thingy in the refrigerator.
• Variation: Spread a layer of apricot preserves between cake layers instead of cream cheese frosting. Then assemble cake and frost sides and top as usual. This takes about a 1/4-1/3 cup apricot preserves.

HEIRLOOM CARROT SPOON CAKE (CROCK POT)

Steps:

• Spray a 5-quart slow cooker with butter flavored cooking spray. Combine all ingredients in large mixing bowl. Beat with electric mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes. Transfer to slow cooker. Place a paper towl over top of slow cooker. Cover and cook on LOW for 4 1/2 to 6 hours.
• The paper towl absorbs the moisture and does not allow the water to drop onto the cake.

GINGERBREAD SPOON CAKE (SLOW COOKER)

Steps:

• Spray a 4 quart slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray.
• In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the gingerbread mix, half and half, cinnamon and ginger and raisins until moistened. The batter will be very thick. Spread the batter evenly over the bottom of the slow cooker.
• In a medium saucepan over medium high heat, stir together the water, brown sugar, butter and vanilla. Bring mixture to a boil and carefully pour over the batter in the slow cooker.
• Set the slow cooker on the high heat setting and cover. Cook for 2 hours (the center will still appear very moist and a pudding like consistency). Remove the liner from the slow cooker or just turn the cooker off and allow to stand, uncovered, for an additional 45 minutes. Cake will be slightly cooled. Serve a spoon full of warm cake and pudding like center in a beautiful dessert bowl and top with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream or whipped cream and sprinkle of chopped candied ginger.

RICE COOKER CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Combine all dry ingredients and mix well with a fork.
• Peel and finely grate carrot
• Add all wet ingredients and carrots to dry mixture and stir with fork until well mixed.
• Lightly oil the pan of rice cooker.
• Pour cake batter in to the rice cooker.
• Set rice cooker to 'slow' if you have that option, then press start (if you do not have slow that is ok).
• Rice cooker may shut off after 5 minutes, allow for 5 minutes to cool down and restart. Most cookers will require at least 2 cooking cycles for cake to bake.
• Check for finished cake by inserting toothpick - it will come out clean when inserted into the cake if cake is cooked completely.
• Remove pan from cooker when finished and let cool in pan for 1 hour.
• Invert pan over a plate larger than pan opening and allow cake to slide onto plate from pan.
• Frost or sprinkle with powdered sugar as desired.