Thanksgiving Cake Recipes

Grandma's Thanksgiving Cake Recipes Are Perfect For Thanksgiving

Carrot Cake In Pastry

This unique carrot cake recipe could also be baked in tart shells, rather than cut into squares. It makes an attractive, tasty dessert for any occasion.

Rub four good-sized, cooked carrots through a sieve, add two tablespoonfuls of ground almonds, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, the grated rind and strained juice of half a lemon, the well-beaten yolks of four eggs, three tablespoonfuls of melted butter, and the whites of the eggs beaten stiffly with a pinch of salt. Pour mixture into a small baking dish that has been lined with pastry. Bake in a hot oven until ready and serve hot or cold, cut in squares.

Maple Nut Cake

Cream 1/3 cup shortening with 1 cup light-brown sugar; add 2 egg yolks, mix well and add 3/4 cup milk; sift together 1-1/2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 level teaspoons baking powder; add 1 cup finely chopped nuts, preferably pecans, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Bake in greased loaf pan in moderate oven 35 minutes.

Maple Icing: 1/2 teaspoon butter and 2 teaspoons hot milk; add 1-1/2 cups confectioner's sugar to make a smooth paste; add 1/2 teaspoon maple flavoring and spread on cake; sprinkle with chopped nuts. --Mrs. D. V. Canning

Old-Time Crumb Cake

For this crumb cake take two cupfuls of flour, half a pound of breadcrumbs, one egg, a quarter of a pound of currants, half a cupful of sugar, a quarter of a pound of lard, one teaspoonful of baking powder, one teaspoonful of mixed spices, and some milk. Sift the flour, baking powder and spices into a bowl, rub in the lard, add the currents, sugar and breadcrumbs, then add the beaten egg and enough milk to make a nice dough. Put into a buttered tin and bake until a skewer will come out dry.

Hickory Nut Or Walnut Cake

Two cups of fine white sugar creamed with half a cup of butter, three eggs, two-thirds of a cup of sweet milk, three cups of sifted flour, one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder sifted through the flour; a tablespoonful (level) of powdered mace, a coffee cup of hickory nut or walnut meats chopped a little.

Fill the cake pans with a layer of the cake, then a layer of raisins upon that, then strew over these a handful of nuts, and so on until the pan is two-thirds full. Line the tins with well-buttered paper and bake in a steady, but not quick, oven. This is most excellent.

Whipped Cream Cake

Once cupful of sugar and two tablespoonfuls of soft butter stirred together; add the yolks of two eggs well beaten, then add four tablespoonfuls of milk, some flavoring of choice, then the beaten whites of the eggs. Mix a teaspoonful of cream of tartar and half a teaspoonful of baking soda in a cup of flour, sift it into the cake batter and stir lightly. Bake in a small dripping pan.

When the cake is cool, have ready half a pint of sweet cream sweetened and whipped to a stiff froth, also flavored. Spread it over the cake while fresh. To whip the cream easily, set it on ice or in the ice box before whipping.

Fig Cake

1/2 cup shortening, 1/2 cup white sugar, 3/4 cup granulated oatmeal, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup milk, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, flour enough to roll. Put half in bottom of pan and cover with fig filling. Cover with other half as pie.

Fig Filling: 1/2 lb layer figs cut fine and boil till tender; add 1 cup sugar; cool till thick. May be served plain or with sweetened whipped cream. -- Mrs. John Henry

Dried Apple Fruit Cake

Soak three cupfuls of dried apples overnight in cold water enough to swell them; chop them in the morning and put them on the fire with three cups of molasses; stew until almost soft; add a cupful of nice raisins (seedless, if possible) and stew a few moments; when cold, add three cupfuls of flour, one cupful of butter, three eggs, and a teaspoonful of baking soda; bake in a steady oven.

This will make two good-sized panfuls of splendid cake; the apples will cook like citron and taste delicious. Raisins may be omitted; also, spices to taste may be added (for example, cinnamon and nutmeg). This is not an expensive cake, yet it is delicious.