Best Snow On The Mountain Cake Recipes

MONTANA MOUNTAIN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Grease three 8" layer cake pans; dust lightly with bread crumbs.
• Sift dry ingredients together.
• Cream butter and sugar; add vanilla.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, until well blended.
• Beat in chocolate.
• Add water alternatively with dry ingredients.
• Divide batter into cake pans, spread to level, then push batter up the sides a little bit leaving a slight concavity in the center.
• Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until cake just begins to pull away from the sides of the pan.
• Cool 5 minutes in the pan, then invert and cool completely on cooling racks.
• If necessary for even frosting, cut the tops level.
• Frost layers, staking them, and sides with your favorite frosting (I like coffee flavored Seafoam Frosting).
• With your spatula, quickly pull frosting up in peaks all over the cake.

WHITE MOUNTAIN FROSTING

Steps:

• Combine sugar, corn syrup, and water in small saucepan.
• Cover; heat to rolling boil over medium heat.
• Remove cover and boil rapidly, without stirring, to 242 F on candy thermometer.
• As mixture boils, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form.
• Pour hot syrup very slowly in a thin stream into the beaten egg whites, beating constantly on medium speed.
• Beat on high speed until stiff peaks form.
• Add vanilla during last minute of beating.
• VARIATIONS: Add 1/4 cup sifted cocoa for Cocoa Frosting, folding in till blended; for Lemon Frosting substitute 1 TBSP lemon juice for the vanilla and add 1/4 tsp.
• grated lemon peel and 10 drops of yellow food coloring; for Pink Mountain Frosting, sustitute maraschino cherry juice for the water; for Satiny Beige Frosting substitute brown sugar (packed) for the granulated sugar and decrease vanilla to 1/2 tsp.

SKI CAKE

Steps:

• CAKE: Beat butter and 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy.
• In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt together; add to butter mixture and mix well.
• Add milk gradually.
• In another bowl, beat egg whites with remaining 1/2 cup sugar, and fold gently into mixture; add grated chocolate and vanilla.
• Grease two 9-inch round cake pans and line with parchment paper.
• Pour cake batter evenly between the pans and bake at 350F for 25-30 minutes. Let cake cool.
• ICING: Mix yolks, sugar, butter and vanilla until fluffy.
• Spread icing on one cake layer; place second layer on top and spread icing over top and sides.
• Melt chocolate and drizzle over icing. Use the tines of a fork to make squiggly lines, giving the impression of ski marks in snow.
• Makes 14 servings.

SNOW ON THE MOUNTAIN CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease two 9 x13 inch cake pans. 2. In a medium bowl combine flour, sugar, baking soda, dates, pecans, eggs, vanilla extract and salt. Mix well and spread evenly between prepared pans. 3. Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes. Crumble into small pieces and cool. 4. In a large bowl combine oranges, bananas, pineapple and sugar. 5. On a large serving platter spread 1/2 of crumb mixture. Spoon fruit mixture on top. Sprinkle remaining crumb mixture over fruit. Spread whipped cream over crumbs, sprinkle with coconut and top with cherries. Chill before serving.

MAMA'S SNOW CAKE

Steps:

• In a bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks and extracts; beat well. Combine flour, baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Add to creamed mixture alternately with milk. Add coconut and orange zest. In a small bowl, beat egg whites with remaining salt until stiff peaks form; gently fold into batter. Pour into three greased 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean (if wood burning stove is used, start peeking after 25 minutes). Cool in pans for 10 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely. , For icing, combine sugar, egg whites, water and corn syrup in a heavy saucepan or double boiler. With a portable mixer, beat on low for 1 minute. Continue beating on low speed over low heat until frosting reaches 160°, about 8-10 minutes. Pour into a bowl; add vanilla. Beat on high until stiff peaks form, about 7 minutes. Place one cake layer on a serving plate. Spread with frosting and sprinkle with coconut. Repeat. Top with last layer. Frost top and sides of cake; sprinkle with coconut.