How to make a box cake taste homemade? Any wedding cake recipe?

I am wanting to get in to the wedding cake business and would like to find some easy yet wonderful recipes.

How to make a box cake taste homemade? Any wedding cake recipe?
Old Time Wedding Cake





1 c Butter + 1 tsp. for pans


2 c Sugar


1/2 ts Baking soda


1/2 ts Almond extract


1/2 ts Lemon extract


1 1/3 c Milk


10 Egg whites


pn Salt


4 c Flour


1 ts Cream of tartar





At least 1 hour before starting set out all ingredients to come to


room temperature. Butter one 10" pan %26amp; one 8" pan. In large bowl


cream butter with wooden spoon until fluffy. Use back of spoon, blend


in sugar until mixture is no longer grainy. Add soda %26amp; extracts to


milk %26amp; beat into butter-sugar mixture. Place whites on 16" platter,


add salt %26amp; beat until they are too stiff to slip from platter, about


10 minutes. Heat oven to 350. In small bowl sift together flour %26amp;


tartar. Sift a second time. Fold flour into butter mixture, a large


spoonful at a time, alternate with a spoonful of whites. Continue


until ingredients are blended. Divide batter between buttered pans %26amp;


bake 50 minutes or until cakes begin to pull away from pan edges.


Cool layers in pans 10 minutes before turning them out onto clean


cloths to cool further.





Wedding Cake Frosting





4 1/2 c Powdered sugar


1 c Shortening


6 tb Milk


4 tb Flour or cornstarch


1 ds Salt


1 ts Butter flavoring


1 ts Almond


1 tb Meringue powder





Beat all ingredients together for about 5 to 10 minutes. Use cake


decorating colors instead of food coloring. This frosting is wonderful for


use with cake decorating apparatus. It keeps its shape yet stays soft to


eat for many hours.
Reply:Wedding Cake...it's actually really good.








INGREDIENTS





5 1/4 cups sifted cake flour


6 teaspoons baking powder


2 teaspoons salt


2 cups white sugar


8 egg whites


1 cup white sugar


1 cup shortening


2 cups milk


1 1/2 teaspoons orange extract


1 teaspoon almond extract








DIRECTIONS





Beat egg whites until foamy with sturdy egg beater, or at high speed of electric mixer. Then add 1 cup sugar gradually, beating only until meringue will hold up in soft peaks.


In a large bowl, stir shortening just to soften. In another bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and 2 cups sugar; sift into shortening. Add 1 1/2 cups milk and the extracts, and mix until all flour is dampened. Beat 2 minutes at a low speed of electric mixer. Add remaining milk and the meringue mixture; beat for 1 minute more.


Line the bottoms of one 10 inch square pan and two 8 inch square pans with parchment paper. Pour batter to equal depth in each pan.


Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for about 45 minutes, or until done. Cool layers.


Trim one of the 8 inch square cakes to make a 5 inch square cake. Place the 10 inch cake on a large flat tray or plate. Frost top and sides with thin layer of Ornamental Icing. Cover top of cake smoothly with more frosting. Center 8 inch cake on top of 10 inch cake, and frost as above. Center 5 inch cake on 8 inch cake, and frost. Spread frosting over entire cake to give a flat, even base for decorating. Decorate as desired.
Reply:use a lot of simple syrups made from different fruits like raspberry and lemon to put on the cakes for moisture and taste.





use whole butter and whole milk and the freshest eggs, full fat cream cheeses as much as possible in your mixes and frostings/fillings.

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