Apple Pecan Layer Cake Recipe

December 27, 2012 Leave a Comment
Apple Pecan Layer Cake

Apple Pecan Layer Cake

Browned butter frosting highlights this Apple Pecan Layer Cake.  Thin apple slices artfully arranged and brushed with Citrus Glaze make an attractive garnish.

Apple Pecan Layer Cake Recipe

Apple Pecan Layer Cake

Cake:   2 ½ cups flour

2 cups sugar

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 ½ cups applesauce

¾ cup oil

2 eggs

½ cup chopped pecans

Frosting:   ½ cup butter (margarine NOT recommended)

4 ½ cups powdered sugar

6 to 8 Tbsp. apple juice

Preheat oven to 350 F.  Grease and flour two 9 inch round cake pans.

In large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda and powder, salt and cinnamon.  Add applesauce, oil and eggs; blend at low speed until moistened.  Beat 2 minutes at highest speed.  Stir in pecans.

Pour batter into prepared pans.  Bake at 350 F. for 30 to 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.  Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans.  Cool completely.

In small heavy saucepan over medium heat, brown butter until light golden brown, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat; cool completely.  In large bowl, combine browned butter, powdered sugar and 4 Tbsp. of apple juice; blend at low speed until moistened.  Continue beating until well blended, adding additional apple juice until spreading consistency.  Fill and frost cake.  Garnish as desired.     12 servings

(Recipe for Apple Pecan Layer Cake was in the Pillsbury Classic Cookbook, Show Off Desserts Sensational and Simple To Make, 1987)

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Fried Bow-Ties by Minnie DiFulvio/The Greco Family “Cook”Book

October 16, 2012 1 Comment

Fried Bow-Ties

In 1998 my husband, Mike and myself had gone to the First Greco Family Picnic (they have it every 5 years).  Over the next few months, Diane Randesi (one of the children of the Greco clan) had put together a cookbook that everyone who attended the picnic (about 100 people or more) contributed recipe to the cookbook.

Fried Bow-Ties by Minnie DiFulvio/The Greco Family “Cook”Book

Fried Bow-Ties

3 eggs

1 Tbsp. sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

Flour (as much as it takes to make a medium dough mix (see instructions)

Cooking oil (enough to deep fry)

Powdered sugar (enough to roll cookies into)

 

Mix eggs, sugar and vanilla.  Add flour.  Start with 2 cups and add ½ cup at a time until you can knead the dough.  Place in a lightly greased bowl and cover for 1 hour.

Cut dough in pieces and put each piece through macaroni machine until the piece is long and thin.  (If you don’t have a machine, use a rolling pin to roll the dough paper thin.)

Place on board, and cut with a pasty wheel (to make a fluted edge) into 6” strips.  Tie each strip into  a loose single knot and deep fry quickly in a pan of hot oil.  Remove knot-cookie from oil, and place on paper towel to absorb oil.  Roll in powdered sugar.

(Recipe for the Fried Bow-Tie Recipe was in the Greco Family “Cook”Book. Minnie DiFulvio, 1998.)

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