Aunt Marys Ice Box Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Grease and lightly flour baking pan. Preheat oven to 325°F
• Mix together dry Ingredients: sugar, soda, cake flour, salt, cinnamon, baking powder
• Drain can of pineapple juice from pineapple, saving the juice.
• Add the following to the dry mixture and beat for 3 minutes: Pineapple juice, eggs, oil, vanilla
• Stir in pineapple, carrots and (optional) pecans
• Bake in Bundt pan at 325 degrees for about 1 1/2 hours. (Can also be baked in 9 x 13 for about 45 minutes.).
• Cool for 10 minutes in pan before unmolding
• Frost with Currant-Nut Icing.
• Currant-Nut Icing
• 4 1/2 cups icing sugar (1 box) 2 Tablespoon vanilla
• 1 pkg (8 oz.) soft cream cheese 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
• 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup currants
• 2 Tablespoon milk
• Plump currants by soaking in 1/3 cup of hot water for 5 minutes.
• Drain well.
• Beat sugar, cream cheese (I use laughing cow cheese), butter, milk and vanilla
• until smooth. Fold in walnuts and currants.
• Spread over cooled cake.

Steps:

• Preheat over to 350 degrees F.
• Sprinkle apples with sugar and let stand.
• Mix beaten egg and butter.
• Sift in flour, soda, salt and cinnamon and mix very well.
• Fold into apples and make sure the apples are well and evenly coated.
• Mix in raisins and, if desired, nuts.
• Note: we use raisins which have been soaked in bourbon.
• Note 2: If using regular raisins, make sure you plump them in warm water or rum or the like, then drain before adding.
• Place in a buttered 8" x 8" square baking dish or in a buttered bundt pan and bake for about 50 minutes.
• Cool briefly on rack in pan; turn out of the pan and allow to cool to room temperature on a rack.

Steps:

• Place a rack into the lower third of oven.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Grease and flour a cake mold pan (such as a bunny cake or train cake mold) using vegetable shortening.
• Sift flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
• Mix 1 1/3 cup milk, lemon extract, 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract, and orange extract in a separate bowl.
• Beat unsalted butter in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until butter is creamy and smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. Beat in white sugar and continue beating until the mixture is light and fluffy, about 5 more minutes. Scrape the sides of the bowl occasionally.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating each egg in thoroughly before adding the next.
• Reduce mixer speed to low and beat in flour mixture in several additions, alternating with milk mixture; begin and end with flour mixture. Do not overbeat. Scrape bowl occasionally.
• Pour batter evenly into prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean, 30 to 45 minutes.
• Place cake in pan on a wire rack and allow to cool for 15 minutes before inverting pan to remove cake. Allow cake to completely cool on wire rack, 3 to 4 hours.
• Beat vegetable shortening, 1/2 cup butter, confectioners' sugar, 2 tablespoons milk, and 1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract in a bowl until frosting is smooth and creamy.
• Pack the frosting into a heavy resealable plastic bag; force the frosting into one corner of the bag. Clip a small corner off the plastic bag, seal the bag, and pipe the frosting onto the cooled cake in desired pattern.

Steps:

• Grease a 9x13-inch pan.
• Spread half the crushed wafers in the prepared pan.
• Beat confectioners' sugar and butter together in a bowl using an electric mixer until creamy; add eggs and whipped topping. Beat until fully incorporated. Fold pineapple and pecans into mixture. Pour pineapple mixture over crushed wafers; top with remaining crushed wafers. Refrigerate until set, about 24 hours.

Steps:

• Combined baking soda and buttermilk and let stand for a few minutes.
• Cream sugar, butter, and shortening.
• Add egg yolks one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add buttermilk mixture and flour alternately until combined.
• Stir in vanilla.
• Beat egg whites until stiff.
• Fold stiff egg whites into batter along with coconut and pecans.
• Evenly divide mixture between 3 well greased and floured, 9 inch pans.
• Bake at 325 for 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out cleanly.
• Top each layer with 'Aunt Mary's Cream Cheese Frosting' and sprinkle on pecans.

Steps:

• Place sheets of waxed paper onto a work surface.
• Stir sugar, cocoa, and evaporated milk together in a large nonstick saucepan over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil; boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir butter and marshmallow creme into cocoa mixture. Quickly stir graham cracker crumbs into mixture.
• Drop cookies by the spoonful onto waxed paper; let stand until firm. Store in airtight containers.