Best Waldorf Astoria Cake Recipes
WALDORF ASTORIA RED CAKE
My mom used to make this when I was little. It is a very rich and elegant cake. The frosting is very unusual tasting in that it is almost like a custard.
Provided by v monte
Categories Desserts Cakes Chocolate Cake Recipes
Yield 20
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Cream together the shortening, sugar, and eggs.
- Make a paste with food coloring and cocoa. Add to shortening mixture.
- Add salt and buttermilk to mixture.
- Next add flour, vanilla, vinegar, and baking soda in that order. Mix.
- Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) in two 8 inch round greased and floured cake pans. Let cool.
- To Make Frosting: Cook 5 tablespoons flour and 1 cup milk until thick, and then cool.
- Cream together 1 cup confectioners' sugar, 1 cup butter or margarine and 1 teaspoon vanilla 'til fluffy. Add to flour mixture.
- Cut layers of cake in half lengthwise. Spread frosting on each half layer. Stack and frost over all.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 287 calories, Carbohydrate 34.7 g, Cholesterol 44.5 mg, Fat 15.4 g, Fiber 0.6 g, Protein 3.3 g, SaturatedFat 7.6 g, Sodium 325.2 mg, Sugar 22.2 g
WALDORF-ASTORIA RED VELVET CAKE (1920S RECIPE)
Found on CakeCentral.com while researching the original recipe. I am personally not sure about this icing. I may try the other roux one. Originally posted by descakes. "This is the original Waldorf-Astoria Red Velvet Cake recipe and a huge favorite with family and clients alike! The Cream Cheese/Mascarpone Frosting is to die for:) I know it's going to sound odd but give it a try and you'll be delightfully surprised!" NOTE: I (cookfromscratch) tried this recipe yesterday and was sorely disappointed. It was a good recipe, but not lacking the flavor for Red Velvet.It was a lot of trouble for a good chocolate cake. The red color was also lacking, however, I did use natural food color due to allergies. I am going to keep looking. for a natural Red Velvet recipe.
Provided by cook from scratch
Categories Dessert
Time 20m
Yield 1 layer cake, 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Pre-heat oven to 350°F.
- Butter three 9" round cake pans and line them with parchment paper or waxed paper.
- Melt Chocolate in a metal bowl set over a saucepan of boiling water or in the top of a double boiler (or melt in microwave for 20 - 25 seconds).
- Meanwhile. place the sugar, eggs, oil and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and mix on low speed for two minutes.
- In a mixing bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda and salt.
- Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture and continue to mix on low speed, scraping down the sides of the bowl with a spatula so everything is well incorporated.
- Add the melted chocolate to this mixture and continue to mix on low speed. Add the pureed beets and food coloring.
- Continue to mix on low speed until everything is thoroughly combined.
- Evenly divide the batter between the three prepared pans and tap down to remove air bubbles.
- Bake in the middle of the oven for 20 - 25 minutes or until center of cake springs back when touched, or when an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Remove the pans from the oven and transfer to a cooling rack. Let cool for ten minutes in the pans, then turn the layers out onto the rack and let cool completely.
- Icing: Pour cream into a small bowl and whip to soft peaks. Set aside in the refrigerator.
- Place the cream cheese in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and mix on low speed until it is soft and smooth.
- Add the mascarpone and continue to mix on low speed until the cheeses are well combined.
- Add the vanilla and powdered sugar and mix until everything is just combined.
- Turn off the mixer and fold in the whipped cream by hand with a spatula.
- Keep refrigerated until ready to assemble.
- Chef's note: Sliced canned beets are easier to work with in this recipe than whole beets.
- Original Poster's note - This cake works well as a wedding cake but use a cream cheese/buttercream as the icing noted here will not harden.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1225.5, Fat 85.8, SaturatedFat 31.5, Cholesterol 221.4, Sodium 790.9, Carbohydrate 109.3, Fiber 4.1, Sugar 78.4, Protein 12.3
WALDORF ASTORIA RED CAKE & WALDORF ICING
This recipe was my mother's. SUPPOSEDLY, this is the original of what would become known as the "Red Velvet Cake". As the story was told, this recipe was created by the Waldorf Astoria's baking Chef for the opening of the Waldorf or very shortly thereafter. Now whether this is true history or not is not for me to say because I...
Provided by Billie Neal
Categories Cakes
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- 1. "WALDORF ASTORIA RED CAKE" Cream shortening, sugar and eggs.
- 2. Make a paste of cocoa and cake coloring and add to mixture.
- 3. Add vanilla and buttermilk alternately with flour and salt, beating after each addition.
- 4. Mix soda and vinegar and blend into mixture.
- 5. Bake 25 to 35 minutes at 350 degrees.
- 6. "WALDORF ICING" Cook milk and flour until thick, let cool.
- 7. Cream well, butter and sugar, beat until butter turns white.
- 8. Add vanilla and cool mixture.
- 9. Beat till fluffy like whipped cream.
WALDORF-ASTORIA RED VELVET CAKE
Steps:
- Cream shortening, sugar and eggs. Make a paste of food coloring and cocoa. Add to creamed mixture. Add buttermilk alternating with flour and salt. Add vanilla. Add soda to vinegar, and blend into the batter. Pour into 3 or 4 greased and floured 8" cake pans. Bake at 350°F for 24-30 minutes. Split layers fill and frost with the following frosting. Frosting: Add milk to flour slowly, avoiding lumps. Cook flour and milk until very thick, stirring constantly. Cool completely. Cream sugar, butter and vanilla until fluffy. Add to cooked mixture. Beat, high speed, until very fluffy. Looks and tastes like whipped cream.
WALDORF ASTORIA CAKE FROSTING
This easy white frosting is perfect for wedding cakes.
Provided by Tina Ashbridge
Categories Desserts Frostings and Icings
Time 30m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- In a large bowl, combine confectioners sugar, shortening, milk, salt, butter flavored extract and vanilla. Beat until smooth and fluffy.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 306 calories, Carbohydrate 37.9 g, Cholesterol 10.7 mg, Fat 17.4 g, Protein 0.4 g, SaturatedFat 7.1 g, Sodium 30.2 mg, Sugar 37.2 g
SOUTHERN RED VELVET CUPCAKES (WALDORF ASTORIA RED CAKE)
Steps:
- 1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line mini muffin pans with 48 mini cupcake liners or line regular-size muffin pans with 24 regular cupcake liners. 2. In a mixing bowl, sift together flour, sugar, baking soda, cocoa powder and salt. 3. In a large mixing bowl, stir together eggs and oil. 4. In a mixing cup, mix buttermilk, food coloring, vinegar, and vanilla extract. Lightly whisk. 5. Gradually add the dry ingredients and buttermilk mixture to the egg mixture, starting and ending with the dry ingredients. We are trying to achieve a dark brown, red color, so add more cocoa powder, if the red is not deep enough. 6. Add the batter to the mini cupcake liners until they are 3/4-full and bake for 13-14 min, or until done. For regular sized cupcakes, bake 22 min or until done. Let the cupcakes cool completely. 7. Frost with cream cheese frosting (see pumpkin bar recipe).
WALDORF ASTORIA ORIGINAL RED VELVET CAKE WITH COOKED ICING RECIPE - (3.7/5)
Provided by Shirl
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray three 9-inch round cake pans with flour-added cooking spray. For a higher ratio of cake to frosting, use two 9×2 inch pans. You may also use three 8-inch pans. If you use three 8-inch or go with two 9-inch, you will probably need to tack on about 4 minutes to the cook time due to the batter being deeper. Using high speed of electric mixer, beat shortening and sugar until creamy. Beat in eggs, vanilla extract and butter extract, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Make a paste of red food coloring and cocoa powder, then stir that in. Or, do what I did and stir the red food coloring and cocoa in, then beat. When the batter turns red, stir in the salt and beat so that it's very well mixed. Starting and ending with flour, add the flour and buttermilk alternately to batter, stirring so that flour gets absorbed. Place the baking soda in a little cup. Add the vinegar to the baking soda, then stir the fizzy vinegar mixture into the cake batter to lighten it. Now, dump the cake batter into the pans, dividing evenly. Bake for 20 minutes or until a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out with moist crumbs. Let cakes cool in pans on a rack for 10 minutes. Flip out of pans and cool completely. Note: If your oven runs hot, cook the red velvet cake at 325 degrees F. The cakes will turn out dry if overcooked. Make the frosting. In a heavy saucepan, whisk together 3 tablespoons of flour and 1/4 cup of the milk until smooth. Whisk in salt and remaining milk. Turn heat to medium and cook, whisking constantly, until mixture is thick and creamy. Let it cool completely. Using your electric mixer, beat butter and granulated sugar until fluffy. Beat in the vanilla. Beat in the thoroughly cooled flour mixture. Beat and beat until the icing is fluffy and no longer grainy (this may take a while, depending on how good your mixer is). For this recipe, I recommend using a stand mixer. Cover cake with frosting.
WALDORF-ASTORIA CHOCOLATE CAKE
As a child, my mother told me that this was considered to be JFK's favorite cake recipe. I know it became my choice for birthday cake every year. Today I substitute Splenda blend for the sugar and double sift the dry ingredients to make it fluffy. You cannot further reduce calories by using any of the light mayonnaises. if you do not have or like miracle whip, you can substitute regular mayonnaise with no change in quality.
Provided by Patti McD
Categories Dessert
Time 1h5m
Yield 1 loaf, 12 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- sift dry ingredients together into a large mixing bowl.
- Add moist ingredients and mix until well blended.
- Pour into a well-greased loaf pan.
- Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
- if you double, bake in well-greased bundt pan for 90 minutes. Allow to cool in pan before turning out or top will separate from the cake.
- Dust with powdered sugar bfore serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 148, Fat 0.4, Sodium 158.2, Carbohydrate 33.6, Fiber 0.9, Sugar 16.8, Protein 2.5
WALDORF ASTORIA CAKE (RED CAKE)
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- CAKE: Cream shortening and sugar till fluffy. Add vanilla and eggs, one egg at a time, beating between each one. Mix food coloring and cocoa together, then add to sugar mixture. Add buttermilk and flour alternately. Lastly, add soda dissolved in vinegar (add before it stops fizzing) Bake 350 for 30 mins. or until toothpick comes out clean. FROSTING: Cook flour and milk unil thicker. Cool. Cream sugar, butter, and vanilla until very fluffy with mixer. FOLD sugar/butter mixture into cooled milk mixture.
WALDORF-ASTORIA CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE
Provided by MauiDreaming
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- preheat oven to 375F in a bowl, sift dry ingredients together. beat in miracle whip, then water and vanilla. pour into cake pan, bake until springy...about 50 minutes. frost when cool with chocalate frosting or ganache
WALDORF ASTORIA CAKE
This recipe if from one of my Grand mothers recipe book. She put lots of love in this cake when she made it.
Provided by Eddie Jordan @EDWARDCARL
Categories Cakes
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- Mix vinegar and soda, set aside. Cream sugar with shortening and add eggs. Make a paste of cocoa and food color and add to creamed mixture.
- Add buttermilk,salt, and flour alternately. Add vanilla then soda and vinegar.
- Beat well and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes in two well oiled and floured pans. Cool and split each layer to make 4 thin layers
- FROSTING PART 1: Cook over low flame until thickened, remove from heat and add 1 stick butter. Chill mixture.
- FROSTING PART 2: Add to first part and beat at high speed until fluffy. Ice after putting layers together. Garnish with Coconut.
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