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Texas Coconut Cake

Ingredients: 1 cup Crisco 2 cups sugar 5 eggs

2 cups all-purpose flour 1-1/2 tsps. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1 cup milk 1 tsp. coconut flavoring 1 cup coconut

Instructions: Grease and flour tube cake pan. Mix 1 cup of Crisco and 2 cups of sugar in a mixer and mix well. Beat in 5 eggs, 1 at a time. In a separate bowl, mix 2 cups of sifted all-purpose flour, 1-1/2 teaspoons of baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Add this to the creamed mixture with 1 cup of milk. Add 1 teaspoon of coconut flavoring and 1 cup of coconut to this mixture and bake in prepared pan for 1 hour at 350 degrees. Frosting – 1/2 cup of sugar, 3/4 cup of water, 1/2 teaspoon of coconut flavoring. Bring to boil and boil for only 1 minute. Remove from the heat. Invert the cake onto a plate and spoon the mixture over the cake while the cake is warm and the mixture is warm. Joan’s Applesauce Cake Is there anything better than the aroma of applesauce cake in the house? Ingredients: 2-1/2 cups hot applesauce 1 cup chopped nuts 4 tsps. baking soda 1 box floured raisins 1 cup butter 1 tsp. nutmeg AND cinnamon 2 cups sugar 1/2 tsp. cloves 4 cups flour 1 tsp. vanilla Instructions Grease and flour a large tube-cake pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In the hot applesauce stir in baking soda; set aside to cool. Cream sugar and butter very well and add dry ingredients alternating with cooled applesauce. Bake for 2 hours at 350 degrees if using a large tub-cake pan. Shirley Ofsa

Joan Semonco

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