Funny Cake

Funny Cake

  • AuthorVanita
  • PrepSome minutes
  • Cook55 minutes
  • TotalSome time
  • Stylebaking
  • CuisineAmerican
Servings 8
Honestly, the most convoluted, oddly written recipe in the whole recipe box. Sounds pretty interesting, and yes, funny.... I will link to a recipe for pastry (that was near it in the box,) but I think you could safely use a store bought pie crust for this one.

Ingredients

  • 1 pastry mix(pie shell)
  • Butterscotch Sauce
  • 1/4cupbutter
  • 5Tbsplight corn syrup
  • 3/4cupbrown sugar (firmly packed)
  • 4Tbspwater
  • 1/2tspvanilla
  • Cake
  • 1 1/4cupsflour
  • 1tsp baking powder
  • 1/2tspsalt
  • 3/4cupsugar
  • 1/4cupcooking oil
  • 1/2cupmilk
  • 1tspvanilla
  • 1egg
  • 3Tbspchopped nuts

Method

 

  1. Prepare pastry mix - roll out thick and fit into a glass pie plate -- flute edges high.

For Butterscotch Sauce

  1. Combine butter, brown sugar and corn syrup in a saucepan.
  2. Stir over low heat until mixture comes to a boil.
  3. Add water and boil 1-2 minutes.
  4. Remove from heat and add vanilla.
  5. Set aside and allow to cool to lukewarm whil you make the cake.

For the cake

  1. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt & sugar.
  2. Add shortening (oil), milk, vanilla and egg.
  3. Beat at medium speed (with hand mixer) for 2 minutes.
  4. Pour batter into pastry-lined pie plate.
  5. Pour the lukewarm butterscotch sauce gently over the cake batter & sprinkle with nuts.
  6. Bake at 350°F oven for 50-55 minutes.
  7. Best served when completely cooled.

Recipe Notes

cool

I think you know by now that I usually prefer to make my own rather than use store-bought, premade stuff. In this case though, I think if I were short on time, or if you're like me and you suck at making pie pastry, then I'd use a double crust pie shell from the store and mash them together to make the "thick rolled, high fluted" pastry mix.

If you're so inclined to make your own, here's Vanita's Pastry recipe.

The original recipe card as it was written--

 

Nutritional Information

Yeah, just eat less stuff from a box and you'll be finer than a frog's hair.