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    Home » Everything Amish » Plain Culture

    5 Amazing Amish Cake Recipes: Black Magic Cake, Queen Elizabeth Cake, Company Cake, and More!

    Published: May 20, 2017 · Updated: May 20, 2017 by Kevin Williams | 2 Comments

    Amish Cake For CompanyCAPTION:  Amish "Company Cake", man was I delighted to stumble into this once in an Amish home and they were gracious enough to let me photograph it before eating it!

    By Kevin Williams

    Ah, today's post is an ode to cake: strawberry cake, spice cake, and kind of cake is great with me!   "Let them eat cake" could be my life's motto!

    (Related recipes:

    What is cake without ice cream?   Try these recipes:  Quick and Easy Ice Cream, Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream, and Easy Maple Ice Cream. )

    Now to the cake.  Aster I baked a cake yesterday, or attempted to, and it didn't turn out badly.  I just think it's probably similar to a million other cake recipes I've posted here.  So I'm not even posting the recipe.  Here's a short outtake of the video (sorry, Mom, you said you didn't want to be in the video, but you kept walking into it!)

    So, here is a brief gallery of some common and offbeat Amish cake recipes:  the wrong photo appears with some of the cake recipes, I apologize for that, it is a glitch that I can't seem to correct.

    Black Magic Cake
     
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    Prep time
    15 mins
    Cook time
    30 mins
    Total time
    45 mins
     
    Serves: 1 cake
    Ingredients
    • 2 cups brown sugar
    • 2 cups flour
    • ½ cup cocoa
    • 1 /2 cup vegetable oil
    • 2 eggs, beaten
    • 1 /2 cups sour milk
    • 2 teaspoons baking soda
    • 1 cup hot water
    Instructions
    1. Mix together in a bowl.
    2. Add all ingredients to first mixture.
    3. Dissolve baking soda in sour milk before adding.
    4. Last, add hot water.
    5. Pour into 9 X 13 pan and bake at 350.
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    Mrs. Yutzy's Crumb Cake
     
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    Prep time
    15 mins
    Cook time
    45 mins
    Total time
    1 hour
     
    Serves: 1 cake
    Ingredients
    • 3 cups flour
    • 1 1 /2 cups whole wheat flour
    • 3 cups sugar
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 1 cup shortening
    • 1 1 /2 teaspoons baking soda
    • 1 /2 teaspoon nutmeg
    • 1 /2 teaspoon cloves
    • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
    • 1 1 /2 cups sour milk
    Instructions
    1. Blend first five ingredients to make crumbs.
    2. Reserve 2 cups of crumbs for later.
    3. To the rest of the crumbs, in a bowl, add the next 5 ingredients and stir.
    4. Batter will be lumpy.
    5. Pour batter into a 9 X 13 cake pan.
    6. Sprinkle reserved crumbs on top.
    7. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
    8. If you want more of a "hot pudding" in the center, bake for 35 minutes.
    9. Great with milk or ice cream
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    This next one is one of these head-scratchers to find in an Amish recipe collection:  Queen Elizabeth Cake.  In a different Amish recipe collection I saw "Prince of Wales" stew.  Never realized the Amish had an affection for royals!
    Queen Elizabeth Cake
     
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    Prep time
    15 mins
    Cook time
    30 mins
    Total time
    45 mins
     
    Serves: 1 cake
    Ingredients
    • 2 1 /2 cups boiling water
    • 1 cup chopped raisins
    • 2 1 /2 teaspoons baking soda
    • 2 cups sugar
    • 1 1 /2 cups butter, melted
    • 2 1 /2 teaspoons vanilla
    • 3 1 /4 cups flour
    • 2 1½ teaspoons baking powder
    • 1 1 /2 teaspoons salt
    Instructions
    1. Pour boiling water over raisins.
    2. Add baking soda.
    3. Let set while following is mixed:
    4. Mix sugar, butter, vanilla, flour, baking powder, and salt.
    5. Then add the first mixture and bake at 350 - 375 for 30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
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    CAPTION: Amish Company Cake

    AMISH COMPANY CAKE - Click here to enjoy this awesome cake!

    AMISH HOT FUDGE CAKE -  Click here for this amazing sounding confection!

    SOUR CREAM RAISIN CAKE

    This is an interesting recipe from Buchanan County, Iowa, give this one a shot:

    SOUR CREAM RAISIN CAKE

    1 cup sour cream

    2 cups flour

    1 cup sugar

    1 teaspoon baking soda

    2 eggs

    1 cup raisins

    1 /2 teaspoon salt

    1 teaspoon cloves

    1 teaspoon nutmeg

    1 teaspoon vanilla

    1 teaspoon cinnamon

    Mix altogether and bake in a lightly greased loaf pan at 350 until set and a toothpick in the center comes out clean.

    This one also comes from Buchanan County, Iowa's Amish, here's that royal theme again:

    PRINCE OF WALES CAKE

    1 cups sugar

    1 /2 cup lard

    1 egg

    1 /2 cup maple syrup

    1 teaspoon baking soda dissolved in 1 cup sour milk

    2 cups flour

    1 teaspoon cloves

    1 teaspoon nutmeg

    1 teaspoon cinnmaon

    Mix well and bake in a lightly greased loaf pan at 350.

     

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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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    1. Connie

      May 20, 2017 at 11:00 am

      There is a Steak and Shake chain. Maybe that is what your thinking.

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    2. Nana

      May 20, 2017 at 11:12 am

      Might you be thinking of "Steak and Shake" restaurants . We have one of those at the mall and it has great hamburgers or steakburgers as they refer to them. A variety of burgers and fries for four dollars per plate, but by the time you add a shake, tax, and tip you are far closer to ten dollars or a bit better. .

      Reply

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