yellow cake orange curd chocolate frosting
(from Zina D’s recipe box)
Source: Martha Stewart (from RecipeThing user maude)
Categories: Cakes/Pies/Pastry
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 C cqke flour
- 1 1/2 C all purpose flour
- 1 T baking powder
- 1 t salt
- SIFT
- 2 sticks butter cream with
- 1 3/4 C sugar
- 4 eggs one at a time
- CREAM
- 2 t vanilla ext
- 1 1/4 C milk at room temperature
- add flour and milk at room temperature to creamed butter
Directions
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8 inch pans with parchment paper=MUST BE AT LEAST 2 INCHES HIGH
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Butter cake pans
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Put parchment paper in bottom
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Flour pans
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Fill pans
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Bake 350 degrees for 30 minutes
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Orange Curd
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12 egg yolks
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1 1/2 C sugar
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zest 2 oranges
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1/2 C lemon juice
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1/4 C plus 2 T orange juice
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Stir with wooden spoon on medium low heat.
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Cook until wooden spoon coated
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Add 2 sticks plus 5 T cold small pats cold butter
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Chill
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Cut each cake in half horizonally
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1/2 C orange curd for each layer leaving about an inch all the way around
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toothpicks
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Chill in refrigerator
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FROSTING
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1 pound unsweetened chocolate
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2 2/3 cut whipping cream that has been brought to a boil
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1 t cornsyrup
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Melt chocolate cream mixture
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Add 2 sticks plus 5 T cold butter-cut into size of pats of butter
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Frost and chill