LAYER CAKE WITH CARAMEL FROSTING

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NOTE: This is a very dense cake. If you like a fluffier cake, use your favorite two layer yellow cake recipe and just try the yummy frosting.

Provided by GrandmaIsCooking

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h5m

Yield 16 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 14

2/3 cup butter, softened
2 tablespoons vegetable shortening (Crisco)
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar or 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar, I prefer dark
1/3-1/2 cup milk, start with lesser amount
1 lb powdered sugar (10X)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Steps:

  • For cake, cream together shortening and softened butter and sugar until very light and fluffy.
  • Add eggs and beat well.
  • Combine flour, baking powder and salt, and add dry ingredients alternately with milk (3 additions of dry, 2 of milk).
  • Beat only until well blended but do not overbeat.
  • Fold in vanilla extract.
  • Pour into two well greased and floured 10 inch layer pans (or 3 9 inch pans) and bake in a preheated 350 degree (Fahrenheit) oven for about 30 minutes, or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean.
  • Remove from oven, turn cake pans upside down on counter on waxed paper.
  • In a few minutes, remove pans from cake layers and let them cool completely before making the frosting.
  • When cake layers have cooled, make frosting. Melt butter in a heavy pan over medium heat.
  • Add brown sugar and continue cooking until it melts, stirring and watching carefully.
  • After sugar is melted, add 1/3 cup milk and stir in well.
  • Turn burner to medium high, and bring to a full boil, stirring constantly. Boil for at least one minute, but not more than two minutes.
  • Remove from heat and pour over powdered sugar in a metal or heat proof bowl.
  • Beat well for about 10 minutes, adding more milk as needed if mixture is too thick (it will set up and get thicker as it cools).
  • Mix in vanilla extract.
  • Fill and frost layers immediately before frosting sets and becomes very hard to spread.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 500.4, Fat 16.6, SaturatedFat 9.6, Cholesterol 72.6, Sodium 216.3, Carbohydrate 86.4, Fiber 0.4, Sugar 72.9, Protein 3.5

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