2 Egg Cake and Sugarless Chocolate Frosting

by Mrs Marvel

This recipe for a 2 egg cake has been rated as “good.” I haven’t tried it, but I have to say that it isn’t a whole lot different from many other cake recipes I have seen. What I do find funny (in an OCD organizational sense) is that the cake recipe is for a 9″ cake, but the frosting recipe is for an 8″ cake. It makes me wonder now if they were intended to go together or just was a space-saving method, like the person ran out of recipe cards or something. Also, the frosting is called “sugarless” but there is plenty of sugar in it with the chocolate and sweetened condensed milk. This is not for someone on a low sugar diet. Continue reading →

Break O’ Dawn Sponge Cake (Prudence Penny) & Cocoanut Frosting

by Mrs Marvel

This sounds like a nice light flavored cake. Sponge cakes require care when folding ingredients, so that the whipped egg whites do not deflate. If they deflate, the cake will be flat, thin and firm. The reason is they have no raising agent, like baking powder or baking soda. Once the cake is baked, care must be taken not to allow it to fall. To accomplish this, sponge cakes make be turned upside down to cool. This sounds crazy, like the cake is going to fall out of the pan, but somehow it works. The tube pan referred to here is the type used to make angel food cake. My good friend Diane B suggested keeping a bottle of wine handy for when the cake comes out – she may use it to hang the cake, but if it’s as fiddly as all these precautions suggest, you may want to pour a glass first. Continue reading →

Beef Pie Encore

by Mrs Marvel

The recipe above is called Beef Pie Encore, but really it should be “Home made TV dinner.” I can remember when TV dinners came in the foil tray, and as an experiment my mom saved a few and made our own TV dinners. It must not have been a tremendous success because we stopped doing it pretty quickly. However, it is no different from some of the “meals in minutes” dinners and premade dinner kits that are on the market today. Frugality gets a new name every few generations, and these days we call it a life hack. Really, it’s just creative use of leftovers, hah. Continue reading →

Apricot Drop Cookies

by Mrs Marvel

For a sweet treat that seems fairly easy, these apricot drop cookies would be a good recipe to try. Apricots are easy to come by dried, and you can try different ones for their flavor, texture, and moistness. I prefer dried apricots that are a little plump with some moistness remaining. When they are too dry, they just seem like fruit leather to me. Continue reading →

Pineapple Casserole

by Mrs Marvel

I’m not 100% sure what a pineapple casserole would taste like, but with the flour and sugar, it sounds like maybe a dessert? This is an interesting one and I wonder how it would taste. The addition of a Ritz cracker topping is very unusual. Continue reading →