Friday, January 01, 2010

Best Frosting Ever (And I Don't Even Like Frosting)

Here's my mother's Mocha Cake recipe. When she started to go downhill with lung cancer, I made her this cake for her birthday which she enjoyed.

Mocha Cake Recipe

Ingredients
1 Sunshine orange sponge cake
1 cup half and half
2 teaspoons powdered coffee
Whipped cream
Chopped walnuts
Butter mocha frosting

Bake or buy a sunshine sponge cake
Slice in 4 layers. Pour over them with a teaspoon, a cup half and half to which 1 teaspoon vanilla and 2 teaspoons powdered coffee dissolved in a very little water have been added. Fill with whipped cream and chopped walnuts. Frost with butter mocha frosting and decorate with whole walnuts.

Butter mocha frosting
½ lb. sweet butter
6 egg yolks
1 ¼ c. powdered sugar
4-5 level teaspoons powdered coffee, dissolved in water (least amount)
1 Tbsp. vanilla

Beat butter first, then add 1/8 cup of the sugar, then the egg yolks one at a time. Add ½ cup more sugar, then the coffee and vanilla, then the rest of the sugar. Refrigerate frosted cake for about 3 hours.

3 comments:

Mun Mun said...

My first Chinese spam!

Anonymous said...

Hello - any idea where I could buy Bret F a l k art/prints?

Mun Mun said...

Hi, Anonymous,
I asked Bret's brother if he could advise you. He says, "Unfortunately, Bret never sold any paintings or made any prints, and so unless somebody wants to sell one of the paintings he gave to them, I'm not sure how this person could buy one."

He/she could purchase the comprehensive book of Bret's work, of course, "Bob Hope Is Dead", here: "http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/23368"

Mun