1234 cake (ingredients, cake recipe, sugar, powder)

[lubby]

1-2-3-4 Cake Recipe at Cooking.com

I made this tonight for a friend's birthday tomorrow. I also made a buttercream frosting and dyed it light purple. The filling is a homemade lemon curd. This recipe is the exact same one I have in a birthday cake cook book, but I was too lazy to type it out. LOL. The cake just came out of the oven. It smells great!!! This is only my 2nd time making a cake from scratch and so far it's going well. I will take a picture of the finished product and let you know how it tasted tomorrow.

[weezycom]

I love 1-2-3-4 cake because I can make it without pulling out a cookbook!

[soy sauce]

Never heard of this cake. It's usually 1234 bites and the cake is all gone.

[lubby]

OOPs I forgot to take a picture and post it. It was delicious but I am disappointed on how the lemon curd turned out. It did not thicken and I really should have let it sit overnight in the fridge before using it as a filling. It was still good and gave the cake a nice lemon flavor.

[TampaKaren]

Any cake that doesn't require processed foods is a winner to me!

[Bulldogdad]

Aw ye old standby.

My Italian Grandma used to make them all the time. YUM!

Lubby try some of Martha Stewart's cake recipes. Yeah start with the easyones first.

I was a MS groupy for awhile back in the 1990's

[weezycom]

Originally Posted by soy sauce

Never heard of this cake. It's usually 1234 bites and the cake is all gone.

It's called this because that's the amounts of the main ingredients:

1 cup of each dairy (butter and milk)
2 cups sugar
3 cups flour
4 eggs

Of course you have a bit of salt, baking powder, extract

[debaratiroy]

hello friends. New here. and new to making home made buttercream. Can you help me with some info on where I can find high ratio shortening in North Austin? Heard they are great for buttercream. thanks in advance

[Paka]

Originally Posted by debaratiroy

hello friends. New here. and new to making home made buttercream. Can you help me with some info on where I can find high ratio shortening in North Austin? Heard they are great for buttercream. thanks in advance

Any of your cake shops that sell decorating supplies will have it. About $13 for a 3 lb tub here in San Antonio at Lucy's Cake Shop. Just google your zip code and closest cake supply store and you should have no problem finding it.

[eureka1]

I'm not a cake baker or eater but I was in Target the other day for the first time in a long time and I noted that Duff from the Food Network has a line of cakes and frostings in WILD colors. Kids would love them. I, too, would never use shortening, only butter.