Best Old Fashioned Sugar Cake Recipes

OLD-FASHIONED BROWN SUGAR CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a fluted tube pan.
• Combine brown sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in eggs one at a time until well blended.
• Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt together in a separate bowl. Stir vanilla extract and almond extract into buttermilk. Add flour and buttermilk mixtures alternately to the creamed butter mixture, beating well between additions.
• Pour batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes.

OLD-FASHIONED APPLE CAKE WITH BROWN SUGAR FROSTING FROM KAF

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325°F Grease and flour a 9" x 13" pan.
• 2) To make the cake: Mix all of the ingredients except the apples and nuts in a large bowl.
• 3) Beat until well combined; the mixture will be very stiff, and may even be crumbly.
• 4) Add the apples and nuts, and mix until the apples release some of their juice and the stiff mixture becomes a thick batter, somewhere between cookie dough and brownie batter in consistency.
• 5) Spread the batter in the prepared pan, smoothing it with your wet fingers.
• 6) Bake the cake for 45 minutes, or until a cake tester or toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, or with just a few wet crumbs clinging to it.
• 7) Remove the cake from the oven and place it on a rack to cool completely; don't remove the cake from the pan.
• 8) To make the frosting: Melt the butter in a small pan over medium heat. Stir in the brown sugar and salt and cook, stirring, until the sugar melts.
• 9) Add the milk, bring to a boil, and pour into a mixing bowl to cool for 10 minutes.
• 10) After 10 minutes, stir in the confectioners' sugar and vanilla. Beat well; if the mixture appears too thin, add more confectioners' sugar. Spread on the cake while frosting is still warm.

OLD FASHIONED CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH BROWN SUGAR FROSTING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F; spray bottom of 3 (9 inch) round pans with cooking spray. Line bottoms with parchment paper; spray paper. Sprinkle bottoms and sides of pans with flour, tapping out excess.
• Whisk water and cocoa in medium bowl until smooth. Whisk in buttermilk and 1 tbsp vanilla. Whisk flour, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.
• Beat 3 cups brown sugar and 1 1/2 cups butter in large bowl at medium speed 4 to 5 minutes or until light and creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. At low speed, beat in flour mixture alternatively with chocolate mixture just until blended, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Divide batter between pans; smooth tops with spatula.
• Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean and cakes just begin to pull away from the sides of pans, rotating pans during last 5 minutes of baking if necessary. Cool in pans on wire rack 15 minutes. Invert cakes onto wire rack, remove parchment. Cool completely.
• Beat cream cheese and 1 cup butter in large bowl at medium speed 3 to 4 minutes or until smooth and creamy. Beat in powdered sugar and 1 1/4 cups brown sugar until well blended. Beat in 1 1/2 tsp vanilla.
• Put 1 cake layer, top-side up, on platter; spread with about 1 cup of frosting. Top with second cake layer; spread with one cup of frosting. Top with remaining cake layer; frost top and sides of cake with thin layer of frosting.
• Refrigerate 15 minutes. Frost top and sides of cake with remaining frosting. Refrigerate until ready to serve. (Cake can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate).

OLD FASHIONED SUGAR CAKE RECIPE - (4.5/5)

Steps:

• 1.Cream together shortening and milk for about 3 minutes, (it will look like small curd cottage cheese.) Add in vanilla. 2.in a separate bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add flour, one third at a time to the milk mixture, blending well after each addition. 3.Lastly, add in egg whites, beating just until all combined. 4.Pour batter into a greased and floured (do not use a spray) 10 inch cast iron skillet. 5.Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 40-45 minutes, using a toothpick inserted in the center to test for doneness. 6.Let cool on wire rack for at least 45 minutes before serving, lightly dust with powdered sugar if desired. Notes You can also bake this in 10 inch casserole dish or a 10 inch baking pan.

OLD FASHIONED SUGAR CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together shortening and milk for about 3 minutes, (it will look like small curd cottage cheese.) Add in vanilla.
• In a separate bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add flour, one third at a time to the milk mixture, blending well after each addition.
• Lastly, add in egg whites, beating just until all combined.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured (do not use a spray) 10 inch cast iron skillet.
• Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 40-45 minutes, using a toothpick inserted in the center to test for doneness.
• Let cool on wire rack for at least 45 minutes before serving, lightly dust with powdered sugar if desired.
• NOTE: You can also bake this in 10 inch casserole dish or a 10 inch baking pan. (I use cast iron because the cake bakes more evenly).

OLD FASHIONED SUGAR CAKE

Steps:

• Cream together shortening and milk for about 3 minutes, (it will look like small curd cottage cheese.) Add in vanilla.
• in a separate bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add flour, one third at a time to the milk mixture, blending well after each addition.
• Lastly, add in egg whites, beating just until all combined.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured (do not use a spray) 10 inch cast iron skillet.
• Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 40-45 minutes, using a toothpick inserted in the center to test for doneness.
• Let cool on wire rack for at least 45 minutes before serving, lightly dust with powdered sugar if desired.
• Notes
• You can also bake this in 10 inch casserole dish or a 10 inch baking pan.