What is the best cake you've ever made? And what would fit this occasion? Any good recipes?

Question

So my birthday is tommorow, and we do a whole celebration thing in ROTC for everyones birhday, so I'm bringing a cake, but I'm running into a dilemma, half of them like white and half like chocolate. Though theyll all eat chocolate if they have to. I know I could make a marble boxed cake but I sort of wanted to make it from scratch, so I was wondering if anyone had a recipe that makes a really good cake that I could make for this event.

Answer 1

You could do the marble cake, just make Vanilla cake and chocolate cake and swirl it together, and you get marble.

U can find good recipe of vanilla and chocolate cake online or at recipe sites.. take your pick.

Answer 2

Renate's Cream Cheese Yummo Cake

Grease and flour a large bundt cake pan or a large Tube pan

Preheat oven to 375

Sift:

3 cups of all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt
set the dry ingredients aside

1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts set aside for last minute

In a mixing bowl:

3 sticks of butter
1 - 8 ounce package of Philadelphia cream cheese
Cream

Then add 3 cups sugar

beat these together with a mixer and

add 6 eggs one at a time

Add the dry ingedient one third, mix, one third, mix

YOU CAN ADD 3/4 CUP GOOD COCOA FOR CHOCOLATE

But we all like the butter flavor

Add 1 teaspoon good vanilla and the nuts - stir into batter with a spoon.

and put the batter into the cake pan

Put the cake into the pan and put into the oven

Turn the oven down to 325 and cook the cake for 1 hour and 15 mins

Take out and put on a plate and cool

Answer 3

Ok i have the recipe for a Double Chocolate Cake - and it has the best (and easiest) icing ever!

Makes one 23cm cake
(need two pans or takes time using one)

Ingredients
CAKE
125g butter, softened
3/4 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
1+1/4 cups self-raising flour
6 tablespoons custard powder
1/3 cups cocoa powder
1/2 cup water
ICING
125g butter
1+1/3 cups icing sugar, sifted
1/2cup cocoa powder
2 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons of Jam (i like strawberry it goes well but whatever you like.)
lollies to decorate

1. Turn oven to 180c or 350f, grease round cake tin(s).
2. Put butter, sugar, eggs, flour and 2T of custard powder in mixing bowl.
3. Separate evenly into another mixing bowl
4. Add cocoa powder to one bowl, and remaining custard powder to the other.
5. Add 1/2 of the water to each bowl (1/4cup), beat for 2 minutes on low, then 4 minutes on high speed - each bowl.
6. Spread evenly into separate tins. Bake 30 mins. Turn onto rack to cool. If have two tins great if not just back one after the other.
7. Put butter, icing sugar, cocoa and milk in a small bowl.
8. Beat 1 minute on low then 4 minutes on high speed
9. Spread butter cream and jam on one half and then put other half on top. Spread all over with butter cream and decorate.

This taste so good. If i were you i would make extra icing because it always seem to spread thin and it always disappear before it reaches the cake. ;)
Another thing is to not have butter cream in the middle but jam and cream or strawberries and cream, then you dont need extra icing because you'll have the stuff from the middle to go around.

Enjoy

Answer 4

It’s spicy! It’s sweet! It’s a great Thanksgiving treat! Why not make it part of your family tradition?
Prep time: 25 min.
Baking time: 50-60 min.
Decoration time: 15 min.
Difficulty: Easy
What you'll need:
1 bag MILKY WAY® Brand FUN SIZE®, unwrapped
3 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 sticks butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
1 15-oz. can solid pumpkin
1/2 cup apple cider
5 tablespoons condensed milk
12-cup bundt cake pan
What to do:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Reserve 10 MILKY WAY® Brand FUN SIZE® bars to be used in the drizzle. Chop the remaining candy. Reserve 1/2 cup of chopped candy for decoration.
Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, baking soda and salt, and set aside.
In a separate bowl, cream the butter with the sugar. Add the eggs, one at a time, and stir in the pumpkin puree. The mixture will be loose and wet.
Using a low speed blender, mix the flour with the batter, one third at a time. Blend well after each addition. Stir in the apple cider until smooth.
Spoon half of the batter into a greased and floured bundt pan. Using the chopped candy, make a layer on top of the batter. Cover with the remaining batter (leaving the reserved 1/2 cup of chopped candy for decoration).
Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from oven, transfer to a wire rack, and let cool completely.
Gently loosen the sides of the cake from the pan, and invert it onto a cake plate. Unmold the cake from the pan, letting it carefully slip out.
To make the drizzle, melt the reserved MILKY WAY® Brand FUN SIZE® bars with condensed milk, either in a saucepan over medium low heat, or for about 20-30 seconds in the microwave. Drizzle the MILKY WAY® mixture over the top of the cooled cake. Decorate the top of the cake with a sprinkle of the 1/2 cup of reserved chopped candy.
TIP: If you don’t have a bundt cake pan, simply bake the cake in a 9 x 13-inch greased baking pan for 35 to 40 minutes in a 350 degree oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Answer 5

Try to find this in a cookbook Kentucky Jam cake sooo goood!!!

Answer 6

Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting. You can't go wrong with that!

Answer 7

Best homeade chocolate cake I have ever had/made!

HERSHEY'S "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" Chocolate Cake


Ingredients:

. 2 cups sugar
. 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
. 3/4 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
. 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
. 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
. 1 teaspoon salt
. 2 eggs
. 1 cup milk
. 1/2 cup vegetable oil
. 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
. 1 cup boiling water
. "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" CHOCOLATE FROSTING(recipe follows)
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans.

2. Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pans.

3. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely. Frost with "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" CHOCOLATE FROSTING. 10 to 12 servings.

VARIATIONS:
ONE-PAN CAKE: Grease and flour 13x9x2-inch baking pan. Heat oven to 350° F. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 35 to 40 minutes. Cool completely. Frost.

THREE LAYER CAKE: Grease and flour three 8-inch round baking pans. Heat oven to 350°F. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake 30 to 35 minutes. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely. Frost.

BUNDT CAKE: Grease and flour 12-cup Bundt pan. Heat oven to 350°F. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 50 to 55 minutes. Cool 15 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely. Frost.

CUPCAKES: Line muffin cups (2-1/2 inches in diameter) with paper bake cups. Heat oven to 350°F. Fill cups 2/3 full with batter. Bake 22 to 25 minutes. Cool completely. Frost. About 30 cupcakes.


"PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" CHOCOLATE FROSTING

1 stick (1/2 cup) butter or margarine
2/3 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Melt butter. Stir in cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency. Add small amount additional milk, if needed. Stir in vanilla. About 2 cups frosting.

Answer 8

a Better then sex cake ummmmmm