How to Make Award-winning Old Fashioned Sugar Cake

Old Fashioned Sugar Cake. Old Fashioned Sugar Cake Old Fashioned Sugar Cake-made in a cast iron skillet, no icing needed for this light and flavorful cake! Some of it I've had for years. If you're feeling nostalgic or just want some classic comfort food, bake up this Old Fashioned Sugar Cake.

This simple cake is one that can be found across the entire southern United States, probably brought by immigrants from Eastern Europe. As the name suggests, old-fashioned sugar cake is a simple sweet, vanilla-scented cake similar to a pound cake but usually baked in a cast-iron skillet. With a handheld or stand mixer with paddle attachment, cream together your milk, shortening and vanilla for a few minutes.

Hello everybody, I hope you're having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, old fashioned sugar cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I'm gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Old Fashioned Sugar Cake Old Fashioned Sugar Cake-made in a cast iron skillet, no icing needed for this light and flavorful cake! Some of it I've had for years. If you're feeling nostalgic or just want some classic comfort food, bake up this Old Fashioned Sugar Cake.

Old Fashioned Sugar Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It's simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It's enjoyed by millions every day. They're fine and they look wonderful. Old Fashioned Sugar Cake is something which I've loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have old fashioned sugar cake using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Old Fashioned Sugar Cake:

1. {Get 1/2 cup of canola or vegetable oil.
2. {Prepare 1 cup of milk (I use Almond unsweetened milk).
3. {Get 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
4. {Make ready 2 cups of plus 2 tbsp all purpose flour.
5. {Take 1 1/2 cup of granulated white sugar.
6. {Prepare 4 tsp of baking powder.
7. {Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
8. {Make ready 4 of large egg whites.
9. {Prepare of Confectioner's sugar for dusting.
10. {Take of Caramel sauce made from Sweetened Condensed Milk (optional).

In a separate bowl, place your flour, baking powder, salt and sugar, and mix these all together. Add flour about one third at a time, mixing until all is incorporated. Grease and flour a fluted tube pan. Old fashioned sugar cake is a delicious, moist cake, similar to a pound cake, that is baked in a cast iron skillet.

Instructions to make Old Fashioned Sugar Cake:

1. Cream together shortening and milk for about 3 minutes, (it will look like small curd cottage cheese.) Add in vanilla..
2. In a separate bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add flour, one third at a time to the milk mixture, blending well after each addition..
3. Lastly, add in egg whites, beating just until all combined..
4. Pour batter into a greased and floured (do not use a spray) 10 inch cast iron skillet..
5. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 40-45 minutes, using a toothpick inserted in the center to test for doneness. (last picture is with caramel sauce on top.).

This vanilla cake does not need frosting. A simple sprinkle of powdered sugar will do. Some of it I've had for years. When we used to go camping, there was nothing better than cooking over the fire in my cast iron skillet. Some of it I've had for years.

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