California Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Cream shortening, add sugar gradually and cream well.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beat well after each addition.
• Sift flour, baking powder, soda, and salt together. Add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk.
• Fold in vanilla, walnuts, and dates and grated orange peel.
• Pour into well-greased spring-form or angel food pan. Bake one hour at 375.
• Allow cake to cool in pan 10 minutes.
• Pour (spoon) sauce over cake and let stand for several hours or overnight.
• To make sauce: Squeeze juice and pulp of 3 oranges. Add sugar. Bring to boil and simmer until pulp becomes transparent. Pour warm syrup over cake 10 minutes after it comes out of oven.

Steps:

• Combine first 5 ingredients in large bowl.
• Add remaining ingredients over fruit and lift from bottom to stir.
• Bake in well greased angel food pan at 250 degrees for 1 1/4 hours or until well browned on top.

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, combine the apples and sugar; mix well. (Actually I do this as I'm slicing them, so that the sugar keeps the apples from getting dark.)
• Stir in oil, nuts, eggs and vanilla; mix well.
• Combine dry ingredients and add to apple mixture. Blend well to ensure that you won't have little pockets of flour in the finished cake.
• Spoon into a 9x13 pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
• Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour at 350° (325° if you use a pyrex pan). It's important not to overcook this cake, so check it at the lower baking time. The center should be just barely set and the edges still fairly soft.
• Cool in pan before cutting.
• Cut with a sharp knife so that you cut through the apples, rather than dragging half of a slice from an adjacent piece of cake.
• You'll probably need something like a pancake turner to get the slices out, especially the first few.
• This cake doesn't come out in nice, neat slices, but it tastes wonderful.
• It can be served either warm or cold.