Cinnamon Swirl Cake!

                                                                                   

A very nice cake for snacking or dessert! I love my cinnamon & this cake satisfied my craving. Has that cinnamon bun kind of taste but cake texture! ENJOY!

CAKE:

2/3 Cup Shortening

1&1/2 Cups Sugar + 1TBS 

3 Eggs

2&1/4 Cups Flour

1 TSP Salt

2 TSP Baking Powder

1 Cup Milk

1 TBS Vanilla

1 TBS Cinnamon

Spray & flour a 9x13 cake pan. Preheat oven to 350 Degrees

In large mixing bowl beat shortening until fluffy. Add 1&1/2 Cups Sugar & beat again until fluffy. Beat in Eggs & vanilla, beat until fluffy.  Mix together in separate bowl the flour, salt & baking powder. Now beat in 1/3 of the flour mixture into your shortening mixture. Add 1/3 of the milk then some of the flour beating well until everything is combined & well blended. Beat on high for 2 minutes. Now spoon all but 1 Cup of the batter into your pan. Smooth top & spread it evenly. Back in the bowl of batter stir in the cinnamon & the 1 TBS Sugar. Now dollop that over the top in about 5 dollops, then swirl a knife the batter to marble the batter. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes until cake test done. Let cool about 15 minutes then frost with the following.

FROSTING:

1 Can Betty Crocker Vanilla Frosting

4 TBS Softened Cream Cheese

Blend the 2 together then frost the top of the warm cake. Frosting will slightly melt & give you that Cinnamon Bun type frosting! I ate my piece of cake warm & YUM! I tried some completely cooled & YUM! WIN WIN!

Black Bottom Chocolate Cake

                                                                           

This yummy chocolate cake bakes its' very own chocolate sauce on the bottom! Creamy rich chocolate sauce that is almost pudding but more like rich chocolate sauce! 

This make a nice 9x13 cake that serves up delicious warm or room temperature! 

Grease a 9x13 pan & preheat your oven to 350 Degrees.

In a large mixing bowl add the following ingredients:

2 Cups Flour

1&1/2 Cups Sugar

4 TBS Cocoa

1TBS +1TSP Baking Powder

1 TSP Salt

Stir together until mixed well. I just used a large heavy spoon. 

Now Stir in the Following:

1 Cup Milk

4 TBS Vegetable Oil

2 Beaten Eggs

2 TSP Vanilla

Stir until smooth. Then pour into your prepared pan. Now just rinse out your bowl & add the following ingredients into the empty bowl.

1 & 1/2 Cups Brown Sugar

1/2 Cup Cocoa

Dash Of Salt

1 TSP Vanilla

2 Cups Hot Water

Just use your heavy spoon & stir until sugar is dissolved & everything is blended. Now GENTLY pour this over your cake batter. Bake for 40 minutes, the top of the cake should spring back when pressed. A cake tester inserted should have dry cake crumbs but do not go down into the sauce! Let cool until warm or let cool completely! This is a very rich & satisfying cake & you could top it with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream! DIG IN!

Cinnamon & Sugar Flop Cake

                                                                           

This is a very easy, fun cake to make! It is a granulated sugar & cinnamon take off of my Cinnamon Flop recipe here on this blog. I had a request to try it using granulated sugar instead of brown sugar, so I tried it & YUMMY, it is delicious too! I cut my recipe in half to make a regular 9x13 cake instead of the huge one I usually make. But this is so good feel free to double the recipe & bake the cake in a Lasagna Pan baking time will need to be increased, so start testing it at 45 minutes or until done! Below is the picture of the 9x13 cake!

So delicious & makes a great coffee cake type cake!

2 Cups Flour

3/4 Cup Sugar for Cake Batter

2 & 1/2 TSP Baking Powder

1/2 TSP alt

Mix well in mixing bowl. 

Now Cut into mixture 1/4 Cup Shortening until you have fine crumbs. I used the lowest speed on my mixer & it did this perfectly. Now Beat in the following,

1 Egg

1 Cup Milk

1 TBS Vanilla, YUP 1 TBS!

Dump them in all together & beat until batter is smooth.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray & flour your 9x13 cake pan. Dump in the batter. Now top with the following

1/3 Cup Granulated Sugar mixed well with 1 & 1/2 TBS Cinnamon or more Cinnamon if you love Cinnamon! I LOVE Cinnamon! Spread  this evenly over the cake batter. NOW, dot the top of the cake with 6 TBS of butter that you cut up into pats dot them evenly over the cake top. Now bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes. Test cake with cake tester or insert a toothpick. No wet batter should be in it! Remove & let cool. Serve warm or room temperature. A very moist cake with lots of Yummyness! 

ADD IN Chopped nuts with the Cinnamon & Sugar, pecans would be great, or sprinkle with Cinnamon Baking Chips, or Chocolate Chips. Raisin Lovers add raisins to the batter.