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Cake Recipes
Grandma's Homemade Cake Recipes Are Now Yours To Use And Enjoy
The easy cake recipes featured on this website make the most delicious cakes imaginable. If you are used to eating the common store-bought variety of cakes, you are in for a real treat. You have never tasted anything like these!
These dessert cakes are just what you have always dreamed of and more -- full of old-fashioned, melt-in-your-mouth goodness. No recipes using cake mixes here. No processed, cardboard tasting cakes. These are the real thing -- the same cakes my Grandma made! You will simply have to try one of Grandma's recipes for cakes and see for yourself.
A Brief History Of CakesDid you know that simple recipes for cakes were used in the Early Ages shortly after the discovery of flour? However, these first cakes did not resemble the fancy varieties we enjoy today; they were more like breads. In Medieval England the words "bread" and "cake" were often used interchangeably, but confectionery cakes were thought of as flour-based sweet foods or sweetmeats, similar to what are now called fruit breads.
In essence, these flour-based sweetmeats were simply breads sweetened with sugar or honey and filled with combinations of preserved fruit, nuts, seeds, and spices, and they were sometimes decorated with comfit candies or simply glazed over with sugar and white of egg.
It was about the 1650s that cakes similar to today's first appeared. Round cake molds and pans became quite popular, as did thick layers of sugar icing for decoration. By the 1850s, cooks were using baking powder and finely refined flours. Victorian cakes were unbeatable for their rich, light-as-a-feather texture and good taste.
You can't go wrong with the old-fashioned recipes from this era. They were written by some of the finest 19th-century cooks, and they will continue to serve you well.
Now You Can Bake Amazing CakesMom would often select one of Grandma's best cake recipes and make a delicious, frosted cake for our supper-time treat. As a young boy, I often stood beside the old cast-iron kitchen stove as she carefully opened the oven door and inserted a small knitting needle into the cake to test if it was done.
The mouthwatering aroma flooded the large farm kitchen making it nearly impossible to wait until we would get to eat it for dessert. Her cakes were amazing. They were simply busting with old-fashioned flavor.
Now, you can use Grandma's easy cake recipes to bake old-fashioned cakes that will delight your loved ones. They are easy to make from scratch. In fact, most take only a few minutes longer than those made from a mix, yet the results are so much better. They are absolutely delicious!
Choose one of the old-fashioned flavors and enjoy the unbeatable aroma of a freshly baked homemade cake. Try one of these great recipes for cakes today. And be sure to check out the delicious cake icing recipes too.
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