Here are the versions of our most used cake recipe because we never used mixes. Use any one of them at your own discretion. One of them really does work but its up to you to figure out which one. I am not listing the sources but I bet you can tell which one I WON'T be using again.
OK, most of my siblings that were around when we had the rule that everyone had to try at least 1 or 2 bites of whatever creation any of us made for the family should remember the "Best Two Egg Cake" I made. All mom and I could figure was that I must have mixed up the Flour and the Baking Soda with reversing the amounts of each. I put something like 2 cups of soda into it and really thought I was following the recipe so well. It was the basic cake recipe we used through the years for most birthday cakes and cupcakes and seemed to always work without fail. SO, how did I make it so awful that one time and have it be one of the continuing family jokes through the years. I can still taste how awful it was and at the same time how funny it was that everyone had to eat some.
OK, most of my siblings that were around when we had the rule that everyone had to try at least 1 or 2 bites of whatever creation any of us made for the family should remember the "Best Two Egg Cake" I made. All mom and I could figure was that I must have mixed up the Flour and the Baking Soda with reversing the amounts of each. I put something like 2 cups of soda into it and really thought I was following the recipe so well. It was the basic cake recipe we used through the years for most birthday cakes and cupcakes and seemed to always work without fail. SO, how did I make it so awful that one time and have it be one of the continuing family jokes through the years. I can still taste how awful it was and at the same time how funny it was that everyone had to eat some.The answer came about a year ago when I was looking up the recipe online and soon after visited Mormor and Papa and was able to get a copy from the old family "Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book" from 1976. It is so worn and
stained and covered in years of pancake and other batter spilled and wiped off from 9 plus kids using it as THE cookbook until mom bought the Fanny Farmer CookI copied the version from the cookbook but also found online one version of the cake listed "2 1/2 cups of Baking Powder/" I vaguely remember that mom had bought a paperback version of the cookbook when I was young because it was the NEW NEW version and our older one was kind of worn way back then. I also vaguely remember how she got frustrated with it and threw it away saying she was staying with the old one because the new one just didn't have things work right. Well..... it now seems that the edition I think she threw away had at least one major error in one of our most used recipes and the terrible cake I made was from that edition. Kind of nice after more than a couple decades to find out I followed the recipe correctly and it really wasn't my fault. To all my siblings that had to suffer, this was one time that I didn't play a joke on anyone. Yes the toothpaste frosting and that time I did the terrible Tabasco sauce Popsicle were real jokes but at least the salty cake wasn't.
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