Cake and Desserts Recipes

The Cold Oven Cake | 1976 Recipe

Maybe forgetting to preheat your oven isn’t a bad thing!? Let’s bake a “Cold Oven Cake” from 1976. Recipe Below:

-INGREDIENTS-
• 1 cup butter or margarine
• 1/2 cup shortening: Crisco/Lard (Or omit, and simply use 1 & 1/2 cups of butter)
• 3 cups white sugar
• 3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup milk
• 5 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp coconut extract
• 1/2 tsp salt (not in the recipe, but would be nice!)

-METHOD-
*.) Assure butter, shortening, eggs, and milk are at room temperature
1.) In a large bowl, cream together butter, shortening, and sugar until light and fluffy
2.) Beat in eggs one at a time
3.) Sift together flour and baking powder in a separate bowl
4.) Fold in flour mixture & milk to the butter mixture, alternating in small portions
5.) Stir in extracts
6.) Turn into a buttered & floured 10 inch tube/bundt pan, or similarly sized vessel
7.) Place in a cold oven, setting temperature to 350ºF and bake for ~ 1 hour & 15 minutes.
8.) Cool cake in pan for 5 minutes, then invert onto a cooling rack. Cool completely before slicing.

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