Fern Cakes
From leigh561 17 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 24
When I was a kid, I would stop at McKinna's Bakery on the way home from church picking up a dozen or so pastries for my grandmother. These were always my favorite ones. They are very time consuming to make, but to me they are well worth the effort. Read more How many servings will depend on how thick you roll the pastry shell. Left over batter can be cooked as a cupcake too. See less
Ingredients
- Pastry Shell shopping list
- 6 Cups of flour shopping list
- 2 Cups Crisco shopping list
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1 teaspoon baking soda shopping list
- 1 teaspoon cram of tartar shopping list
- 1 cup milk shopping list
- strawberry jelly (or any berry flavor you like) shopping list
- cake shopping list
- 1 white cake mix (water oil and eggs per box) shopping list
- 2 teaspoons rum or almond flavoring shopping list
- 1 cup finely chopped coconut shopping list
- 1 cup finely chopped walnuts shopping list
- icing shopping list
- 1 cup powdered sugar shopping list
- few tablespoons boiling water shopping list
- 1 tablespoon Crisco shopping list
- couple of drops of milk shopping list
- cocoa powder shopping list
How to make it
- Pastry Shell
- Mix together all ingredients
- roll out like a pie dough
- Cut to be about the size of a cupcake shell
- mold the dough into cupcake pan that has been lightly sprayed with cooking spray (I like bakers joy for this recipe)
- Once all the shells have been placed into the cupcake pans, drop 1/2 teaspoon of jelly into the bottom of each shell
- Cake filling
- Mix cake mix according to box, adding the above additional ingredients
- Spoon cake into the shells with the jelly.
- Fill as you would a cupcake, about 3/4 ways full
- Bake at 350 for about 30 min
- Tops should be a dark golden brown
- Allow to cool till the cake feels cool to the touch.
- Slip a knife in besides each cake to help lift it out and finish cooling completely
- White icing
- Mix all icing ingredients together, adding water one tablespoon at a time until the icing is nice and creamy.
- If it is too funny, just add powdered sugar to it
- Spread icing on each of the cakes and allow the icing to harden
- Fern design
- With the remaining icing add some cocoa powder to give it a rich chocolate color and taste.
- Using a plastic baggie, put icing in bag, snip off a small piece of the corner of baggie.
- Pipe a vertical line down the center of the icing
- Now place two V's over the chocolate line to make what looks like a tree (fern)
- I didn't take the above picture, but it will give you an idea what they should look like.
The Rating
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thanks a bunch sweetie it sounds very good saving alot of your recipes ....
minitindel
in THE HEART OF THE WINE COUNTRY loved it
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