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| velvetcadi7 |
Posted - Oct 01 2008 : 06:59:47 AM
I have found a couple of great cake recipies to can! The best part is they use applesauce - perfect to make now while apples are in season and give away for holiday or even birthday gifts!
Chocolate Cake Jars
8 pint wide-mouth jars
1/2c +3T unsalted butter
3c sugar, divided
4 eggs
1T vanilla
2c applesauce
3c flour
3/4 c baking cocoa
1t baking soda
1/2 t baking powder
1/8 t salt
Grease inside of jars well. Cream butter and 1 1/2 c sugar til fluffy. Add eggs and remainig 1 1/2c sugar, vanilla and applesauce. Sift dry ingredients together and add to the applesauce mixture, a little at a time. Pour 1 cup of batter into each jar and carefully remove any batter from the rims. Place the jars in a preheated 325 degree oven for 40 min. Warm lids in saucepan of water. When the cakes have finished baking, remove from oven. Place lids on top of jars and secure with rings. Jars will seal as they cool. These can be kept for up to 1 year in sealed jar. After opening, place in fridge for up to 2 weeks.
Another option is an Applesauce Cake
2/3c shortening
4 eggs
1 1/2 t salt
2/3 c water
1/2t baking powder
1 t ground cloves
2 2/3 c sugar
2 c applesauce
3 1/3 c flour
1 t baking soda
1 t cinnamon
nuts and or raisens if desired
12 - 14 wide mouth pint jars
The directions are the same as the chocolate cake - cream shortening and sugar. Beat in eggs, applesauce, and water. Sift dry ingredients and add to applesauce mixture. Stir in nuts/raisens. Pour into well greased jars. Bake at 325 for 45 min. Wipe clean add lid and ring.
Enjoy!!
Amy |
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Oct 05 2008 : 8:02:14 PM
Also I'm not sure about all this stuff, that was said about the batulism, but doesn't almost all canned goods have moisture? All the fruit, all the veggies, pickles, etc etc have lots of "moisture". Yet no one worries about them. I believe it's the vacuum seal that keeps them "good". Plus, I believe the most important thing is using new lids, and making sure the jars and lids are well sterilized.
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Oct 05 2008 : 8:00:13 PM
I agree with Aunt Jenny.
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Oct 05 2008 : 5:20:46 PM
The reason they seal so well and have the vacum is from sealing while still hot Alee. I wouldnt' trust them if they HAD cooled first, unless they were stored in the fridge of course...something to think about.
Jenny in Utah
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| Alee |
Posted - Oct 05 2008 : 07:54:05 AM
Well the safety warning is good to consider. I think I am still going to make these, but I doubt they will last long enough to be troublesome! I store cakes on the counter so perhaps I will let them cool, then cap them. That will keep the fresh and not botulism risk! LOL
Alee
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| Montrose Girl |
Posted - Oct 05 2008 : 06:47:31 AM
I made some this weekend for company. Everyone was pleasently surprised and what fun. One of the ladies asked for the recipe, she has 4 kids.
My Christmas boxes aren't anything fancy, sorry. I was going to get the one rate box from the post office and fill it. Anything that fits, gets sent and jars can weight a bit. It's the larger box as they have two sizes. You could probably decorate, but I was being practical.
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| K-Falls Farmgirl |
Posted - Oct 04 2008 : 10:03:49 AM
Right Heather.. and I know the cake won't last long here either... Family coming for Thanksgiving!
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Oct 04 2008 : 09:37:34 AM
The applesauce is for moisture content not for sweetness. And who wants all those added sweeteners any way? I would use 100 percent apples.
If you make this cake with sugar sub, remember sugar is a preservative. I would probably refrigerate sugar sub ones. With out sugar baked goods go moldy pretty quickly. I'm a diabetic I've learned from experience. It's macrobiotics.
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Oct 03 2008 : 11:14:02 PM
Melissa..I use unsweetened applesauce in mine. Only kind I use in anything.
I have read the warnings..way after I had done these for years so I am fine with them. Just be sure to sterilize your jars and follow directions. I don't keep them around more than 6 months. Heck...if they are around for 3 months it is a miracle!
Jenny in Utah
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| K-Falls Farmgirl |
Posted - Oct 03 2008 : 9:37:27 PM
Melissa I use a sugar substitute * hubby is diabetic but If there is other sugar in the cake I shouldn't think it would matter & depending on the apples used for the sauce. Good luck.
Cheryl #309
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| country roads |
Posted - Oct 03 2008 : 9:30:13 PM
Do you use sweetened or unsweetened applesauce? Or doesn't it matter? We make gift baskets at Christmas time for the adults in the family and friends with all sorts of goodies (cookies,fudge,jellies,etc) and I thought these would go really well with the rest of the yummy stuff!
Take care, Melissa.
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Oct 03 2008 : 1:37:12 PM
Well, we've never had a problem with any one getting ill from them. lol Of course none have EVER lasted for a year in our home! lol hahaha
However, I would still vacuum seal. Other wise they aren't really "sealed".
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| soapmommy60543 |
Posted - Oct 03 2008 : 09:30:21 AM
More recipes:
http://allrecipes.com/Search/Recipes.aspx?WithTerm=jar+cakes&SearchIn=All |
| soapmommy60543 |
Posted - Oct 03 2008 : 09:23:19 AM
Did anyone see the warnings about these? Here is a link: http://chefmom.com/askchefmom/cakejar.htm
I'm still planning on doing these on one of our project days with my two kids and niece and nephew, but we will be sure to keep them in the fridge when cooled, and I'm sure they won't last long enough, even in the fridge for us to get some dreaded disease. |
| velvetcadi7 |
Posted - Oct 03 2008 : 08:05:04 AM
Tina - I like mine with Whipped Cream or Ice Cream but
Heck, everything is better with frosting!!! |
| K-Falls Farmgirl |
Posted - Oct 03 2008 : 06:20:51 AM
Karen. Thanks for the idea.. Awesome. Could you send me your chocolate gingerbread recipe by email?
Thanks!~!
Cheryl #309
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Oct 03 2008 : 06:04:07 AM
Spice cake needs no frosting, it would be the same as eating something like a sweet bread-banana nut bread.
It comes out just fine, that's why you grease the jar.
Yes, you would cut it into rounds. Like a rolled cake-jelly roll, pumpkin roll, yule log, etc.
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Oct 03 2008 : 05:46:14 AM
Just curious as to how well they come out of the jar? And then you just slice them into rounds? Then what? I mean, do they need frosting or anything? These would make great gifts for the neighbors but, I'm wondering if I need to include a jar of frosting, too?
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| Alee |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 4:05:04 PM
You are so clever! I am going to try this right away!
Alee
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| velvetcadi7 |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 12:37:57 PM
I am glad you all like this idea! With 3 kids of my own, I am always struggling to come up with inexpensive gifts for the adults in my family - mom, aunt, etc.
I just started canning last year - yep learned from a book too! - and gave my mom a big basket with 2 dozen jars of stuff I had made. She loved it! I really suprised her when she started returning the empty jars and I let her trade them in for full ones! She has shopped my pantry all year long!
We have my family and my husbands over for Christmas and I think I will decorate these with ribbon and berries and set one out at each place setting.
I love the idea of making small ones and calling them cow patties! That would be really cute for our 4-H group!!! |
| wild daisy |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 11:53:54 AM
I agree what a wonderful idea. Who knew cake could be canned.
Karin could you send us your chocolate gingerbread recipe? This sounds really good!
I just heard on the news that the consumption of flour has hit a 20 year high. Wonder why? My family has always loved to cook (yes even my husband cans and cooks). The kids were always the last to sit down in health class when they asked the kids if they ate out last night, this week or even this month. We usually kept eating out to a special night or during vacations.
Madelynne
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| Sandra K. Licher |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 11:20:04 AM
Amy....thank you so much! I am strapped this Christmas as I'm sure alot of us are so I am wanting to make homemade gifts. I already made peach jam and garlic dill pickles but this would be a great addition!
Laurie...I was interested when you mentioned "Christmas boxes". That sounds like a great idea and would you expound on that a little? Like are they really "boxes", what do you put in them? I am looking for Christmas ideas and it would be nice to have a "box" of homemade things. So far I have the jam and pickles...now the cake and I saw some crocheted hearts with red ribbon that might be a nice package decoration but then I have 3 sons and only one daughter so maybe not so much. Any others out there "making" Christmas this year?
Sam in AR..... "It's a great life if you don't weaken!"
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| dutchy |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 08:15:52 AM
Oke, thanks for the answers. Guess I can't make them then, darned :(
AH well, There are other things to make, lol.
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
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| Montrose Girl |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 06:34:22 AM
Dutchy, these are all good questions. There are lots of new farm girls around that probably are thinking the same thing. I remember when first started to can, learned it all from a book. Boy do I wish I knew about this site then! Ha. Thanks for hte recipe. This may have to go into my Christmas boxes this year.
Best Growing |
| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 05:56:48 AM
That is a "canning" jar, but you don't want to use that kind for cakes. The kind you want to use for cakes are like by Ball, or Mason. With a metal cap. That way you put the metal cap on while baking and they seal! Just like if you were canning anything else. The heat seals the cap. I don't think the rubber kind keeps food as long as the metal caps, nor do I think can you put that kind of rubber in the oven. I know the jars would be ok in the oven, but the cake wouldn't be canned in the end.
Canned cakes are delicious!
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| horse |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 03:13:14 AM
I have canned cakes and I use those little jelly jars. It makes the cakes easy to come out. I sell mine and call them,'cow patties.'
Laura
Farmgirl Sister #354
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