Maple Breakfast Cake Food

CORN CAKE BREAKFAST STACKS WITH MAPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• For the corncakes, whisk together eggs, buttermilk and melted butter in a medium mixing bowl. Stir in corn kernels. Sift together cornmeal, flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder. Add the dry ingredients to the buttermilk-corn mixture and stir until just combined. Let stand for 20 minutes in a cool place.
• For the maple butter: blend the softened butter with 1/2 cup maple syrup in a small bowl and set aside.
• Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F. In a 10-inch nonstick skillet, brown the bacon strips. Drain them on paper towels and transfer to a cookie sheet. Sprinkle the apple slices with cinnamon and salt to taste. Sear them in bacon renderings until golden brown and place them on the sheet pan with the bacon. Wipe out your skillet and return to medium heat. Add just enough butter to coat the bottom of the skillet and ladle 1/4 cup corn batter. Let cook until the edges of the pancake start to brown and bubbles appear on the surface, about 2 minutes. Flip, cook another 2 minutes, then transfer to the cookie sheet with the apples and the bacon. Repeat until you have a dozen corncakes.
• Place the cookie sheet and your serving plates in the oven until everything is warm, about 4 minutes. On each plate, place 1 corn cake, top that with 2 strips of bacon, another corn cake, 2 slices of apple and another corn cake. Top with maple butter and drizzle the plate with some of the warmed maple syrup. Garnish with a sprig of mint, powdered sugar and a few fresh berries if you desire.

BACON BREAKFAST CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9 inch round cake pan.
• Place the bacon in a large, deep skillet; cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until lightly browned but still soft, about 7 minutes. Drain the bacon slices on a paper towel-lined plate. Place the bacon on the bottom of the greased cake pan, overlapping slices as necessary to fit. Sprinkle the bacon strips with the brown sugar.
• Combine the prepared cake batter, maple extract, and maple syrup in a large bowl, mixing well. Pour the batter over the brown sugar and bacon in the cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 15-20 minutes. Cool cake slightly and remove from pan by inverting onto a serving platter. Cut into wedges to serve.

MAPLE TEXAS SHEET CAKE

Steps:

• Boil butter and water in small saucepan.
• Cream eggs, sugar, and sour cream in mixer or large mixing bowl.
• In separate bowl combine dry ingredients.
• Start alternating the butter/water mixture and dry mixture into the egg/sugar mixture.
• Add maple flavoring and mix well.
• Pour into greased 15x10 pan.
• Bake at 350°F for 22 minutes or until tested done in center.
• While cake is baking, start on Icing.
• Boil butter and milk in small saucepan. Remove from heat and add sugar and maple flavoring. Mix until smooth.
• Fold in walnuts.
• Pour onto cake about 5 minutes after coming out of the oven.
• Enjoy warm or cold!

MAPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease and lightly flour (I use Recipe #78579) two 9-inch cake pans, then line the bottoms with waxed paper.
• In a large bowl, mix together the flour and the ginger and set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream the butter and the sugar until fluffy.
• Add the eggs one at a time, beating until well combined.
• Beat in the maple syrup gradually.
• Add the flour mixture in thirds, alternating with the water, beating after each addition until smooth.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pans; prepare a hot water bath to be placed on the rack underneath the cake pans. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until cake tests done (the toothpick test).
• Let cakes cool in pans for 10 minutes. Remove from pans and cool completely on wire rack.
• To make the original frosting: In the top of a double boiler, combine first five ingredients. Cook over boiling water, beating constantly on the medium-high speed of an electric mixer, until mixture stands in peaks (about 5-7 minutes). Remove the pot from heat. Add the vanilla and the maple extracts and continue beating 1 minute more until thick enough to spread.
• To make the buttercream frosting: mix butter, extract and syrup till smooth. Add powdered sugar (a few tablespoons at a time), beating on high speed (my handmixer has three speeds) till frosting reaches desired consistency.
• When cake has cooled, ice between the layers. Ice top and sides of cake, sprinkling the top with chopped walnuts.

CREAMY MAPLE BREAKFAST BAKE

Steps:

• Grease 13x9 inch pan.
• Place ½ the bread cubes in the bottom of pan.
• Top with cream cheese cubes place evenly.
• Top with remaining bread.
• In large mixing bowl beat eggs, half and half, maple syrup and salt until smooth.
• Pour evenly over the bread.
• Cover tightly and refrigerate overnight.
• In morning remove casserole from refrigerator and heat oven to 350.
• Combine sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over bread.
• Bake until top in golden brown and center is set, about 35-45 minutes.
• Let stand 10 minutes before serving in cut squares.
• Serve with additional maple syrup or fruit sauce on the side.

MAPLE BREAKFAST CAKE

Steps:

• Mix together flour, soda, baking powder and salt and set aside.
• In a smaller bowl combine and blend remaining ingredients, except nuts.
• Stir in liquid ingredients into dry.
• Fold in nuts.
• Spread batter in a loaf pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F for 40-45 minutes.