I wanted to bake a cake for my daughter Elise who is home for a month or so! Missed her birthday and she looooves cake so I whipped this up. It's a pretty simple recipe, in the classic mix-dry-ingredients, mix-wet-ingredients, then blend them together genre. Tip: use a small bowl for dry ingredients and a larger bowl for the shortening (I used butter), sugar, vanilla, and egg mixture. That way you can add the flour mixture and milk to the bigger bowl and beat it in.
The cake itself was yummy with a nice texture--kind of heavy and crumbly like a coffee cake. The praline icing was too sweet for my taste, but I'm not a big fan of pralines, so there you go!
It's kind of nice that you bake it right in a glass dish (I used a pie plate) because you can just serve it and store it in there and it looks pretty. But this cake wasn't a big hit with my girls; maybe because of the cloying sweetness.
Look at the next recipe on the page, though...Raisin Apple Cake! That sounds like a good one!
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