Nancie McDermott, “Southern Pies”, 2010 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Nancie McDermott, “Southern Cakes: Sweet and Irresistible Recipes for Everyday Celebrations”, 2007. The “table of contents” is shown BELOW.
Table of Contents
Pound Cakes. 1
Waddad Habeeb Buttross’s Classic Pound Cake
Chocolate Pound Cake with Chocolate-Pecan Frosting
Marble Molasses Pound Cake
Brown Sugar Pound Cake
Cream Cheese Pound Cake
Miss Edna Faust’s Blue-Ribbon Pound Cake
George Pyne’s Bourbon Pound Cake
Sweet Potato Pound Cake
Antiques and Heirlooms. 2
Colonial Queen Cakes
Angel Food Cake
Kathy Harr’s Mississippi Delta Jelly Cake
Lane Cake Lady Baltimore Cake
Ozark Pudding
Dr. George Washington Carver’s Metropolitan Cake with Peanuts
Jelly Roll Burnt Sugar Cake
Luba Tooter Cohen’s Babka Gigi’s Fabulous Caramel Cake
Coconut Cakes. 3
Fresh Coconut 101 Classic Coconut Cake
Pearl Mae Oakley’s Coconut Cake
Miss Nannie’s Fresh Coconut Cake
Lemon-Filled Coconut Cake
Coconut-Cream Cake
Pineapple-Coconut Cake
Mashula’s Coconut Cake
Fruitcakes and Other Holiday Favorites. 4
Classic Dark Fruitcake
Eudora Welty’s White Fruitcake
Orange Slice Cake with Orange Glaze
Japanese Fruitcake
Mother’s Date-Nut Cake
Johnny C’s Tres Leches Cake
Mother’s Cinnamon-Pecan Coffee Cake
Alice Lenora Duke Wooten’s Tipsey Cake
Maw maw’s Slip and Slide Passover Torte
Sister Sadie’sRosh Hashanah Honey Cake
Layer Cakes, Plain and Fancy. 5
Oatmeal Cake
Tomato Soup Cake
Pumpkin-Raisin Cake with Lemon-Cream Cheese Frosting
Banana Cake with Chocolate Frosting
Carrot Cake
Charleston Huguenot Torte
Red Velvet Cake
Hummingbird Cake
Thibodaux Chocolate Doberge Cake
James McNair’s Peanut Cake
Everyday Cakes. 6
Cornelia Walker Bailey’s Pear Bread Ocracoke Island Fig Cake with Buttermilk Glaze
Sallie Anne Robinson’s Daufuskie Island Carrot Cake
Sapelo Island Hard Time Cake
Louisiana Syrup Cake
Persimmon Pudding
Blackberry Jam Cake with Caramel Glaze
Shenandoah Valley Blueberry Cake
Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Fresh Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze
Alleghany County Molasses Stack Cake
Chocolate Cakes (Southern Style). 7
Sybil Pressly’s Buttermilk Cake with Old-Time Fudge Icing
Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake with Divinity Icing
Mississippi Mud Cake
Helen Hudson Whiting’s Celestial Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Wet Cake with Speedy Chocolate Frosting
Jackie Bays’ White Chocolate Layer Cake
Frostings, Icings, and Fillings. 8
Everyday Confectioners’ Sugar Frosting
Seven-Minute Frosting
Cream Cheese Frosting
Browned Butter Frosting
Old-Fashioned Chocolate Fudge Frosting
Classic Boiled Icing
Old-time Vanilla Cream Icing
Blanche’s Never-Fail Chocolate Icing
Quick Caramel Glaze
Lemon Curd Boiled Custard
Here I presented: Nancie McDermott, “Southern Cakes”, 2007.
SUMMARY.
The book consists of eight (8) chapters of recipes.
Chapter 1. “Pound Cakes”.
Chapter 2 “Antiques and Heirlooms”.
Chapter 3. “Coconut Cakes”.
Chapter 4. “Fruit Cakes and Other Holiday Favorites”.
Chapter 5. “Layer Cakes: Plain and Fancy”.
Chapter 6. “Everyday Cakes”.
Chapter 7. “Chocolate Cakes (Southern Style)”.
Chapter 8. “Frostings, Icings, and Fillings”.
This book is specific to the American South; and, the recipes are not for beginners. The book is written by an expert baker.
Below is a list of cakes that everyone knows is from an India Cake List,.
| Black Forest Cake |
| Blueberry Cake |
| Butterscotch Cake |
| Carmel Cake |
| Carrot Cake |
| Cheese Cake |
| Chocolate Cake |
| Coffee Cake |
| Fruit Cake |
| Lemon Cake |
| Mango Cake |
| Pineapple Cake |
| Rasmalai Cake |
| Red Velvet Cake |
| Strawberry Cake |
| Vanilla Cake |
“Rasmalai” cake is “Saffron-Cardamom Cream” cake in the English language; since, some people may not know Rasmalai Cake.
Nancie McDermott, “Southern Pies”, 2010 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
