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    Home » Recipes » Amish Cakes

    Amish Cake For Company

    Published: Feb 24, 2021 · Updated: Apr 30, 2022 by Kevin Williams | 6 Comments

    Amish Cake For Company
    Amish Cake For Company

    Prior to the pandemic, I was visiting with an elderly Amish couple in, the Berne, Indiana area. We were strangers to start, I just stopped by to say hello, learn, and converse. I spent many years chronicling Amish culture doing just that, start as strangers, end as friends. We ended up having a nice visit. The Amish woman told me about her family, did some yodeling (a common custom among the Swiss Amish of Adams County, Indiana, but not so much elsewhere) and just generally made me feel very welcome. She also fed me. Cookies. Pie. And as if she didn't think I weighed enough, out came the  cake.  When I saw the cake I commented on how beautiful it was but, trust me, I was NOT hinting for a piece. I was already full from cookies and pie.  But, sure enough, the woman generously responds:

    "You want a piece?"

    "Oh, no...you've been too kind already, this cake hasn't even been cut, I don't want you to to cut it on my account!"  I said.

    "But I just baked the cake this morning in case anyone dropped by," she said.  In my years visiting Amish homes I've found that it is kind of common for an Amish homemaker to have some cake and cookies just "on hand" in case someone stops by. And usually someone does!

    Amish Cake For Company
    Amish Cake For Company

    SIGH.  So I guess I was the "anyone" she made the cake for.  This woman also has over 80 grandchildren, many of them living nearby  so chances are the cake wouldn't last long.  But I was curious as to how Christmas is celebrated with 80 grandkids.  My parents go a bit crazy shopping for their grandchildren, but they only have three.  Can't imagine they would go too crazy if they had 80.  I don't think anyone could afford to go too hog-wild with that many.

    "We give them all a bag of candy and cookies," she said-matter-of-factly.   And the grandkids are excited to get it.  Really neat to hear in our materialistic culture of kids still getting excited over candy.

    Before heading for home, I asked the Amish woman for her cake recipe and she shared it graciously. Then I left. Full. I did ask her, though, what the cake was called and she said she just called it "Cake For Company." Here is this wonderful recipe.

    🎂 Amish Cake For Company Ingredients

    • 2 cups granulated sugar
    • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
    • 1 ½ cups cake flour
    • ½ cup nonfat dry milk powder
    • 1 tablespoon baking powder
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 16 tablespoons butter (2 sticks), cut into ½-inch pieces and chilled
    • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

    📋 Instructions

    1. Blend sugar, flours, milk powder, baking powder, and salt with a wooden spoon until thoroughly combined.
    2. May take awhile to do!
    3. Add butter and vanilla until the mixture resembles coarse meal.
    4. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 X 13 cake pan.
    5. Beat the prepared cake mix with a wooden spoon, 1 ¼ cups warm water and 2 large room-temperature eggs until the mixture is smooth.
    6. Scrape the batter into the prepared cake pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 25-27 minutes for two 9-inch layer cakes, 35 mins for a 9 X 13 cake pan. Cool the cake in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.
    7. Cool completely.
    8. Add your favorite frosting and sprinkles.

    🎂 More Amish Cake Recipes

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    Amish Nut Cake

    Mennonite Golden Butter Cake

    Lazy Woman's Cake

    🖨️ Amish Cake For Company

    Amish Cake For Company

    Amish Cake For Company

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    Cook Time 27 mins
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American, Amish

    Ingredients
      

    • 2 cups granulated sugar
    • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
    • 1 ½ cups cake flour
    • ½ cup nonfat dry milk powder
    • 1 tablespoon baking powder
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 2 sticks butter cut into ½-inch pieces and chilled
    • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
    • 1 ½ cups warm water
    • 2 eggs large room temperature

    Instructions
     

    • Blend sugar, flours, milk powder, baking powder, and salt with a wooden spoon until thoroughly combined. May take awhile to do!
    • Add butter and vanilla until the mixture resembles coarse meal.
    • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 X 13 cake pan.
    • Beat the prepared cake mix with a wooden spoon, warm water and room-temperature eggs until the mixture is smooth.
    • Scrape the batter into the prepared cake pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 25 minutes for two 9-inch layer cakes, 35 mins for a 9 X 13 cake pan. Cool the cake in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.
    Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
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    About Kevin Williams

    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    Comments

    1. farmhousebarb

      December 19, 2014 at 8:52 pm

      Sounds as if you didn't need to worry about eating on the way home!! I had a great aunt that always had something ready for company. She was the only person I ever knew that did that

      Reply
      • brenda

        December 21, 2014 at 5:13 am

        definitely something our family was always prepared for. as far back as great grandparents that I had knowledge of.

        Reply
    2. Mary Stepleton-Hitt

      May 20, 2017 at 11:31 am

      Enjoy your amish365.com very much! I love writing ang cooking too as well as entertaining my family and friends. How do you have time to write every day tending two little ones? Blessings,
      Mary Margaret

      Reply
      • Kevin

        May 22, 2017 at 1:34 pm

        Thanks, Mary, and welcome to Amish365.com Not easy to write with two little ones, but I squeeze it in!:)

        Reply
    3. Karen

      August 19, 2017 at 6:13 pm

      My grandaughter attended a sports camp in Woodward. She talked about the cake that was served. It was sweet and very moist. I would love to make it for her birthday in a couple weeks. Can you help me find a recipe? She said the Amish made all the wonderful food.
      Thanks so much!

      Reply
      • Kevin

        August 21, 2017 at 9:47 am

        Karen, do you know whether it was chocolate, white, yellow, or spice or something else?

        Reply

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