Spice Cake With Brown Sugar Meringue Frosting Food

SPICE CAKE WITH BROWN SUGAR MERINGUE FROSTING

Steps:

• Allow butter and eggs to stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, grease and lightly flour two 8x1-1/2-inch round cake pans; set aside.
• Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large mixing bowl stir together flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and 1 teaspoon nutmeg. Add butter, eggs, milk, and vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed until combined. Beat on medium speed for 1 minute. Spoon batter into the prepared pans, spreading evenly.
• Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near the centers comes out clean. Cool cake layers in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove layers from pans; cool completely on wire racks.
• Place one cake layer, bottom side up, on a serving plate. Spread the top with Brown Sugar Meringue Frosting. Top with second layer, top side up. Spread top with the remaining frosting, swirling to form high peaks. If desired, use a kitchen torch to brown peaks of frosting. If desired, garnish with chopped pecans and additional nutmeg. Brown Sugar Meringue Frosting
• In a 2 quart top of a double boiler combine brown sugar, water, egg white, and cream of tartar. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed for 30 seconds.
• Place the pan over boiling water (upper pan shouldn't touch water). Cook, beating constantly with the electric mixer on high speed, for 10 to 13 minutes or until an instand read thermometer registers 160°F. when inserted in the mixture, stopping beaters and quickly scraping sides of bowl. Remove pan from heat; add vanilla. Beat about 1 minute more or until mixture is fluffy and holds soft peaks. Frost cake; serve cake within 2 hours. Makes about 2 1/2 cups.

SPICE CAKE WITH BROWN SUGAR FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and lightly flour a 9-inch round or square cake pan.
• In a medium bowl whisk together flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice, and cloves.
• In a second, larger bowl combine brown sugar, oil, apple sauce, grated apple, eggs, and vanilla and mix thoroughly.
• Mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients until incorporated.
• Pour into prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Allow cake to cool at least 20 minutes before gently turning out onto a plate to cool completely. Once completely cooled, frost, sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar if desired. Cut, and serve or cover and store at room temperature up to three days or in the fridge in an airtight container up to 1 week.

BROWN SUGAR FROSTING

Steps:

• Melt butter in saucepan.
• Stir in brown sugar.
• Cook low heat 2 minutes.
• Add milk and bring to full boil.
• Cool to lukewarm.
• Mix in enough confectioner's sugar to spread easily on cake.

SWEETWATER RANCH SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*. Grease 13 x 9 inch baking pan; set aside.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, allspice, ginger and nutmeg.
• Beat butter in large bowl of electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. Add brown sugar; beat until fluffy. Beat in egg yolks.
• Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk. Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, starting and ending with flour mixture. Stir in vanilla. Pour batter evenly into prepared pan.
• Prepare Meringue Frosting: Beat 2 egg whites, using clean beaters and bowl, in medium bowl of electric mixer until stiff peaks form. Gradually add brown sugar, 2 Tblsp. at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat until stiff peaks form.
• Spread frosting over cake batter. Sprinkle with pecans. Bake 45 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Transfer to rack; let cool completely in pan.

BROWN SUGAR SWISS MERINGUE BUTTERCREAM

Steps:

• Put egg whites, sugar, and salt into a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Whisk until mixture registers 160 degrees, about 4 minutes.
• Beat on high speed until stiff, glossy peaks form, about 6 minutes. Reduce speed to medium-low. Add butter, 2 tablespoons at a time, beating after each addition (meringue will deflate slightly as butter is added). Beat until frosting is smooth and glossy, 3 to 5 minutes.

APPLESAUCE SPICE CAKE WITH BROWN SUGAR ICING

Steps:

• For the cake, grease a 9" x 13" cake pan; line the bottom with parchment paper.
• Set aside.
• In a large bowl, beat the butter with the brown sugar until fluffy; beat in the eggs, one at a time.
• Beat in the vanilla.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, allspice and nutmeg.
• Stir into the butter mixture alternately with the applesauce and buttermilk, making 3 additions of dry ingredients and 2 of wet.
• Spread in the prepared pan.
• Bake in the centre of a 350 degree F oven until the cake tester inserted in the centre comes out clean, about 35 minutes.
• Let cool in the pan on a rack.
• For the icing, melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
• Add the brown sugar and corn syrup; bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
• Boil just until blended, about 1 minute.
• Remove from the heat.
• Using a wooden spoon, stir the milk and vanilla into the butter mixture.
• Again using a wooden spoon, beat in the icing sugar until smooth and spreadable; let cool for 1 minute.
• Spread over the top of the cake just to the edge, letting the icing drizzle over slightly.