Sift together dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl.
Cut in shortening with a pastry blender or knives until crumbly. Add eggs and mix to make firm dough.
Add bird seed and knead until smooth.
Wrap in waxed paper and plastic bag and chill thoroughly.
Use your favorite white cake recipe or use 1 white cake mix and bake according to instructions in 9 x 13-inch cake pan.
Let cool 10 to 15 minutes.
Poke holes in the cake with a toothpick, fork tines, etc.
Melt butter, brown sugar and 2 tablespoons of pineapple juice in a saucepan.
Spray sides and bottom of a cake pan.
Pour brown sugar mixture into it.
Arrange pineapple rings and cherries on top.
Prepare cake mix according to directions on package, or make your favorite cake recipe and pour over mixture in cake pan.
Bake in a 350\u00b0 preheated oven for 40 to 45 minutes.
Let stand to cool a few minutes, then invert onto a plate.
Prepare favorite white cake recipe or boxed cake mix and divide batter between 1 (8-inch) square pan and 1 (8-inch) round pan.
Bake according to directions.
Remove cakes from pan and cool.
Use any good cake recipe
to make 4 layers.
Bake 2 plain, then add raisins, nut meats, cinnamon and cloves.
When cool stick with filling.
Combine flour, soda, salt, sugar and cinnamon.
Add eggs and oil.
Stir until dry ingredients are moistened.
DO NOT BEAT.
Stir in vanilla, pineapple, 1 cup pecans, and bananas.
Pour batter into 3 greased and floured 9-inch round pans.
Bake at 350\u00b0F for 23-28 minutes.
Cool in pans for 10 minutes.
Remove from pans and let cool completely on wire rack.
Frost with Humming Bird Cake Frosting (recipe #15993).
Melt the lard and peanut butter, and mix in the dry ingredients and bird seed. Often we mix in bacon fat, bread crumbs, Red River cereal, or whatever we have on hand. Work well together. Make into 4 x 4 x 2 inch blocks and freeze. Place in suet feeder in a tree and watch the birds come to feast!
Cut Twinkies in half lengthwise; line cake pan.
Bake a yellow cake (follow cake recipe), but add 2 packages of French vanilla (instant as directions says) pudding as a topping (for regular cake size) for cake instead of icing.
Pour over the cake.
Then drain one large can of crushed pineapple and spread all over top of pudding.
Then top pineapples with Cool Whip (1 tub).
Sprinkle with 2 cups of coconut and sprinkle chopped finely chopped pecans as decoration.
Can be frozen.
Prepare cake as directed in 13x9 pan,
*note: this chocolate cake recipe makes 10 servings based on
pecans, cilantro, crumbled seaweed, and wild rice with a generous amount
Cake.
Preheat oven to 350
aking pan. I double this recipe and use a bundt pan
For the cake:.
Line 3 (9-inch)
To make chiffon cake: Let egg whites
Preheat oven to 350\u00b0.
Grease tube cake or Bundt pan.
Sift together dry ingredients.
Add pineapple with juice, oil, vanilla, eggs and bananas.
Mix until blended, but do not beat.
Pour batter into prepared pan.
Bake 1 hour and 20 minutes.
Cake will crack slightly on top.
Cool in pan on rack.
This cake will remain moist and fresh for some time.
You can also use a 9 x 12-inch pan, but adjust baking time (start checking at 45 minutes).
ake:
BOTTOM LAYER (cake):
Bake according to directions
***Cake Recipe***.
Adjust an oven rack
econd half for Bienenstich (Beesting Cake)recipe #137652 recommended. Or freeze for
Make cake recipe as directed, add 1/4