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    • Robin’s Nest Coconut Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

      Posted at 10:52 am by StephMo
      Apr 6th

      I had seen a picture of this cute cake and decided to give it my own spin. I used my favorite white cake recipe from my trusty Betty Crocker cookbook and added some coconut. You don’t have to add the coconut, but it is so good in this cake! The cake is moist and has a nice thick dense consistency with the coconut.

      For the frosting I am more of a fan of cream cheese frosting, but you could use a buttercream frosting if you prefer. I have a wonderful vanilla buttercream recipe in another blog.

      As you can see I am not a professional cake decorator, but my cakes are delicious and to me that is the most important part. This cake is really not hard to make and whoever you serve it to will be very impressed.

      Cake Ingredients:

      2 1/4 cups flour

      1 2/3 cups sugar

      2/3 cup shortening

      1 1/4 cups milk

      3 1/2 tsps. baking powder

      1 tsp. salt

      1 tsp. vanilla

      5 large egg whites

      1 cup sweetened coconut

      Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients:

      1/2 cup butter, softened

      8 oz. block cream cheese, softened

      1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

      3 1/2 cups confectioners sugar

      Blue food coloring

      Additional Ingredients:

      1/2 cup sweetened coconut

      Melting chocolate

      Egg candies

      Grease and flour three 6″ cake pans. I greased the pans, then added a layer of parchment paper on the bottoms, then greased again and floured. The pans I used are stainless and not non-stick so I wanted to be sure they came out perfectly.

      Combine all ingredients except egg whites in a large mixing bowl or stand mixer.

      Beat on low speed for 30 seconds scraping the bowl constantly. Continue mixing on high speed for 2 minutes scraping occassionally. With the stand mixture I let it go about a minute, turned it off and scraped, then continued for another minute.

      Add the egg whites and continue beating on high for two more minutes. Fold in 1 cup of coconut.

      Divide evenly between the three pans and bake at 350 degrees until toothpick inserted comes out clean. My pans took about 30 minutes.

      While the cakes were baking I toasted the coconut for the nest.

      In a small frying pan add the coconut and cook over low/medium heat stirring frequently until toasted. Set aside.

      When the cakes are done allow to cool for 10 minutes in the pans before transferring to wire racks. Cool completely.

      Once cakes are cool you can make the cream cheese frosting.

      Beat the butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Beat in vanilla. Beat in confectioners sugar until smooth. Give the frosting a taste and see if you think it should be sweeter and if so, add a little more sugar to taste.

      Add a few drops of blue food coloring and combine well.

      On a cake stand start building the cake and adding frosting in between the layers.

      I normally have the rounded side of the cake be the top layer, but for this cake I had the flat side on the top. It was easier to make the nest this way.

      Once the cake is completely frosted it is time to splatter the chocolate!

      I used a few melting wafers for my splatter, but you can use whatever you normally use. Once the chocolate was melted I used a pastry brush and flicked the chocolate onto the cake. I also managed to flick the chocolate all over my walls so you may want to be a little more careful than I was.

      Now just build the nest!

      For the eggs I used Robin’s Egg candies and I used a toothpick and put a few dots on the eggs.

      Make sure to keep the cake refrigerated because of the cream cheese frosting. If you use buttercream you don’t need to.

      So, so delicious!!!

      Posted in Cakes, Robin's Nest Cake | Tagged cake, cake recipe, cream cheese frosting recipe, easter baking ideas, easter cake, easter recipes, food blog, food blogger, nest cake, Recipes, robins nest cake, stephanie's slice of life, white cake recipe
    • Chocolate Chip Cake With Ganache Frosting

      Posted at 4:26 pm by StephMo
      Feb 27th

      Yesterday I woke up craving cake, which is not something I typically crave. Don’t get me wrong, I crave lots of other sweets but just not usually cake. I must have had a dream about cake or something. Not only was I craving cake, but I could vividly see the picture in my mind of the Chocolate Chip Cake shown in my mother’s Betty Crocker Cookbook that I would look at as a child. I am not even sure if she ever made that cake, but I wanted it.

      In my Betty Crocker Cookbook the Chocolate Chip Cake is a version of the Silver White Cake. I feel like it used to be a yellow cake in her older cookbook, but I went with the white cake. Since I am also not a fan of frosting unless it is cream cheese or ganache, I decided to frost it with ganache as opposed to the buttercream frosting suggested. Let me say, the cake was delicious!

      Ingredients for the cake:

      2 1/4 cups flour

      1 2/3 cups sugar

      2/3 cup shortening

      1 1/4 cups milk

      3 1/2 tsps. baking powder

      1 tsp. salt

      1 tsp. vanilla

      5 large egg whites

      1/2 cup mini chocolate chips

      Grease and flour two 9″ round cake pans, or a 13″ x 9″ rectangular pan.

      Combine all of the ingredients except egg whites and chocolate chips in a large mixing bowl.

      If you have never used shortening in a recipe or have difficulty measuring it out, I find using a knife instead of a spoon works best as I have shown in the next two photos.

      Beat ingredients on low speed for 30 seconds, then on high speed for 2 minutes.

      Add egg whites and beat on high speed for 2 more minutes.

      Fold in the chocolate chips and pour into the pans.

      Bake at 350 degrees, round pans for 30-35 minutes, rectangular for 40-45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

      Cool rounds 10 minutes and then remove cakes from pans and cool completely on a wire rack.

      Now on to the ganache!!!!

      Heat 2 cups of heavy cream in a pan until slightly boiling while being careful not to burn the cream.

      Pour the cream over 16 oz. of semisweet chocolate and let sit for a few minutes. Whisk or stir until the chocolate is completely melted.

      The consistency will be very thin and not ready to frost a cake. It is ready to use as a glaze, but not frosting. Refrigerate the ganache for a few hours whisking every so often until it becomes a thicker consistency.

      Now it’s time to frost the cake!

      Top one of the layers (round side down) with frosting, and then top with the second layer (round side up).

      Frost the sides first, and then the top. Look how good that is starting to look!

      My craving for cake was satisfied completely! Yum!

      Posted in Cakes, Chocolate Chip Cake | Tagged cake recipe, chocolate chip cake recipe, food blog, food blogger, ganache recipe, Recipes, white cake recipe
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