Traditional Syrup Cake Food

TRADITIONAL SYRUP CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 F.
• In a mixing bowl, beat together oil, egg, and sugar.
• Add syrup, buttermilk, flour, soda, and salt.
• Mix together until well blended.
• Pour into greased iron skillet and bake for 40-45 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out mostly clean.

LOUISIANA SYRUP CAKE

Steps:

• Make the cake: preheat oven to 350°; grease and flour a 9-inch square or round cake pan.
• In a bowl, combine the flour, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and salt; stir with a fork to mix well.
• In a big bowl, combine the vegetable oil, cane syrup, and egg; stir with a fork or whisk to combine well.
• Add about 1/3 or the flour mixture to the syrup mixture and then stir gently, just until the flour disappears.
• Add the baking soda to the hot water, and then stir about half the water into the batter.
• Stir another 1/3 of the flour mixture, then the remaining water, and finally the remaining flour, stirring gently each time just to mix everything well.
• Quickly pour the batter into the prepared pan, and bake for 30-35 minutes, until the cake springs back when touched gently in the center, and is beginning to pull away from the sides of the pan.
• Make the frosting: In a bowl, beat the butter until light and fluffy; add in half the powdered sugar, the vanilla, and salt; beat with a mixer at medium speed until smooth.
• Add the remaining powdered sugar and the cane syrup, and beat until smooth and creamy, stopping to scrape down the bowl and mix well.
• To complete: if cake is round, cool the cake in the pan on a rack, for 10 minutes, turn it out of the pan, and place it, top side up, on a wire rack to cool completely; place cooled cake on a serving plate or cake stand, top side down, and spread the frosting over it generously, covering the top and sides.
• If it is square, spread the icing over the cooled cake right in the pan, and cut into squares to serve; serve warm, right from the pan.

HERSHEY'S SYRUP CAKE

Steps:

• For cake: Cream margarine and sugar; then add eggs one at a time and beat well, after each.
• Sift dry ingredients and add to above mixture.
• Add syrup and bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes in 13x9 inch pan.
• Do not over bake.
• Ice while hot.
• For icing: Boil margarine, milk and sugar together for two to three minutes.
• Add chocolate chips, beat until smooth.
• Pour on cake.