Prince Harry and Meghan’s Secrete Wedding Cake Recipe Revealed

Lemon Elderflower Cake with Buttercream Frosting

The fresh flavors of spring can still be with you even if you didn't get a invitation to the Royal Wedding!
The couple has chosen baker Claire Ptak, of London-based Violet Cakes, whose known for her simple buttercream cakes topped with fresh edible flowers. According to the palace’s announcement, the royal cake will be a “lemon elderflower cake that will incorporate the bright flavours of spring” and will have buttercream and fresh flowers for decoration.

In this recipe I used an Elderflour Liqueur, Lemon Juice, and Lemon Extract to give it that unique and Royal flavor. I don't think you will be disappointed. Let's get started! FYI: You can adjust the recipe depending on how big of cake you need.
Royal Inspired Wedding Lemon Elderflower Cake
Ingredients:
Cooking spray or butter, for greasing pans
4 cups all-purpose flour
4 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
4 large eggs, room temperature
2 large egg whites, room temperature
1 3/4 cups butter, room temperature
2 2/3 cups granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp lemon extract
3 tbsp plus 1 tsp lemon juice
2 1/4 cups whole milk, room temperature
Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease three 9-inch (23-cm) round cake pans with cooking spray.
In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, whisk together eggs and egg whites.
In a stand mixer, combine butter and sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 3 to 5 minutes. Add beaten eggs a third at a time, mixing well after each addition and stopping to scrape down sides of bowl with a rubber spatula. Add vanilla, lemon extract and lemon juice. Continue to mix until combined.

Turn mixer to low speed. Alternate adding flour mixture and milk a third at a time. Mix until batter becomes thick and smooth, careful not to over mix.
Divide batter among cake pans, about 2 1/3 cups in each pan. Use an offset spatula to smooth batter to edges of pan. Gently tap pans on table to get rid of any excess air in batter.
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes on middle rack or until cake tops begin to develop a golden color and a toothpick inserted in cake centers comes out clean. For even baking, rotate pans at 15-minute mark.
Remove from heat and let cool for 10 minutes. Use a spatula to gently loosen the edge of cake from pan. Carefully turn cakes out on to a wire rack to cool completely. Remove parchment paper.

Elderflower Swiss Meringue Buttercream
This recipe will give you enough to make the crumb coat, a thin layer of buttercream to seal in the crumbs before adding a second decorative layer, though it may vary depending on how thick you apply the buttercream.

Ingredients:
2/3 cup egg whites, about 5 or 6 large eggs
1 2/3 cup granulated sugar
3/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
2 1/2 cups butter, softened and cut into small cubes (5 sticks)
1/4 cup (50mL) Elderflower liqueur

Fill a medium-sized pot with at least 2 inches water. On high heat, bring to a boil. Turn down heat to medium and reduce to a simmer. In a large heat-proof bowl, add egg whites, sugar, salt and cream of tartar. Place bowl over pot of simmering water making sure bowl does not touch bottom of pot. Add elderflower concentrate and continue to mix until well-incorporated. Stir constantly with a flexible spatula until sugar has completely dissolved and mixture reaches about 185 F, about 10 to 12 minutes.

Pour mixture into bowl of a stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment. Whisk at high speed for about 10 minutes, or until meringue doubles in volume and develops stiff peaks and a glossy appearance. With mixer still running, add butter a few cubes at a time to achieve a thick and creamy texture. Let cool completely before frosting.
Add edible flowers if you wish.

Irish Cream Hot Chocolate Bundt Cake

Baileys® Irish Cream Hot Chocolate Bundt Cake

This rich, and very moist Baileys® Irish Cream Chocolate Bundt Cake is everything you imagine it to be, and no alcohol!
Not only will you impress your guest with it, you will have them begging for more. Made with Baileys® Irish Coffee Creamer so there is no need to worry about the alcohol getting in the way of your fun.

INGREDIENTS:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup Nestle® Cocoa
3/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
1/3 cup Baileys® Irish Coffee Creamer
1 tbsp. Hershey® Chocolate Syrup
1 cup butter (2 sticks)
1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 large eggs
GLAZE TOPPING:
1 tbsp. butter
1 1/2 cups confectionery sugar
2 tbsp. milk
2 tbsp. Baileys® Irish Coffee Creamer
1 tsp. vanilla

INSTRUCTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350F. Grease a 9-cup bundt pan.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
Place butter and sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on med-high until light and fluffy (approx. 3mins).
Add eggs one at a time, fully incorporating after each addition. Add vanilla, and Hershey Chocolate Syrup.
Reduce speed to low. Alternate adding flour mixture with Baileys® Coffee Creamer. Beat until just combined.
Spray the bundt pan with cooking spray to keep cake from sticking. Spread the batter evenly in the bundt pan.
Bake for approx. 40 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.

Cool in bundt pan for 15 minutes. Whack bundt pan on the counter to loosen cake and turn out onto cooling rack to cool completely. While you wait you can mix together the ingredients for your Glaze Topping. Add Glaze Topping when cake has cooled. Sprinkle top with powered sugar.
This Irish Cream Chocolate Cake is sure to become one of your new favorites.

Double Fudge Irish Cream Cookies Non-Alcoholic for Saint Patrick's Day!

Looking forward to Saint Patrick's Day, but minus the alcohol? Then I have a great recipe for you!

Baileys® Irish Cream Double Fudge Irish Cream Cookies
I happen to be of Irish decent, but unlike the typical stereotype, I do not drink. It's kind of funny about stereotypes, they are never true for everyone involved.
You want to celebrate your Irish heritage with your sober friends, and leave the hangovers to the wannabe's, here is a delicious way to treat your guest who can manage to socialize without the aid of the Devil's Nectar. No hangover happening here!

Double Fudge Irish Cream Cookies
I have substituted the Baileys® Irish Cream for Baileys® Irish Cream Coffee Creamer. I assure you that your guest will love these. They are soft, and chewy, and wonderful in every way. Let's get started.
Ingredients:
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla

2 2/3 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 packet instant coffee powder
8 tablespoons of Baileys® Irish Cream Coffee Creamer
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips

Directions:
Cream butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla until fluffy. Add in Bailey’s one tablespoon at a time. Add flour, cocoa powder, instant coffee, baking soda and salt and mix until combined.
Fold in chocolate chips.
Drop by teaspoon fulls on to baking sheet.
Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes.

These are proof that you certainly don't need alcohol to have a good time with your friends, and family. They are so good you may even wish to make them on days that it's not Saint Patrick's Day!

Old Fashioned Valentine's Day Brownies you'll LOVE

Old Fashioned Valentine's Day Brownies
These are incredibly good! Rich and chocolatey!!!

Ingredients:
1⁄2 cup butter or 1⁄2 cup margarine
1⁄4 cup cocoa
2 eggs
1 cup granulated sugar
3⁄4 cup flour
1⁄2 cup walnuts (optional)
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350°F
Melt butter in microwave.
Add the cocoa and stir.
In medium bowl beat eggs until frothy.
Add sugar, flour, salt, and vanilla (also nuts if you are using them).
Pour cocoa mixture over egg mixture and stir all together.
Put into a greased 8 x 8 pan. Preferably a heart shaped one. Bake for 30 minutes.

Old Fashioned Buttercream Frosting
Ingredients:
1 cup butter (room temperature
3 cups sugar (confectioners')
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Directions:
In a mixing bowl with electric mixer, combine the butter with confectioners' sugar. Beat on low speed until sugar is moistened, then beat on medium to high speed for about 2 minutes.
Add the vanilla and 1 tablespoon of milk or cream and beat until smooth. Beat in more milk or cream, as needed for spreading consistency. Add a few drops of red food coloring as well, to set the mood!

My Own Sweet Valentine

Like the sweetly budding rose,
Freshened by the gentle rain
Like the Evening Star that glows,
Brightest of the starry train

Like a well arranged Bouquet,
Where the fairest flowers combine,
Odours rich and colours gay,
Is my own Sweet Valentine

A Fantastic M & M Toffee Bark Recipe

It's the perfect treat for any holiday, but especially at Christmas time. The bark is graham cracker based mixed with a layer of hard and brittle toffee, a layer of peanut butter, then a layer chocolate and an extra special layer of M&M's® and red and green sprinkles for the topping. You cannot fail with this extra special treat. Your friends and family will eat this up in no time at all. You may have to make more.

We begin by buttering the pan, or cooking spray if you prefer. Add 1 cup each of butter and brown sugar to a pot, and bring to a boil. Boil for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Next you layer the bottom of the pan with Graham Crackers, and pour in your boiled butter/brown sugar mixture. Bake for 4 minutes at 400 F.

Remove from oven and add 3/4 cup of peanut butter. You can spread it with a spatula, but as you can see...I did not. I'll leave that up to you. Place back into the oven for a minute, until the peanut butter is melted (about 1 minute).

Remove from oven and layer your chocolate on top (2 cups, and I used milk chocolate chips), and place back in oven until melted. This will probably take a minute or two. When the chocolate is melted you can then spread it out with a spatula.

When you are finished spreading the chocolate, sprinkle the M % M candies over the top, and add red and green sprinkles...just for fun. Cool at room temperature, then transfer to the refrigerator to chill completely. Once it is chilled completely you will be able to break the toffee bark into pieces. Then it's time to enjoy your work!

1941 Black "Midnight Cake" Recipe for your Spooky Halloween Party

I think this black “Midnight Cake” could be just the thing for your Halloween Celebration this year.
It is a strikingly dark and chocolaty, not to mention, very moist, and light cake. This 1941 recipe is great for those who are eager to learn how to make a perfect black Devil's Food Cake, and you can mix it up in no time at all.
The Snowy White frosting makes for a great contrast.

Black Midnight Cake Recipe
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Shortening
1 1/4 cups Sugar
2 Eggs
1 cup Hot Water
1/2 Cocoa
1 1/2 cups Sifted Gold Medal “Kitchen-tested” flour
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 tsp. Baking Powder
1 tsp. Vanilla
Double-boiler icing ingredients:
1 Egg White
3/4 cup Sugar
1/8 tsp. Cream of Tartar
3 tbsp. Water
1/2 tsp. Vanilla (or other flavoring)

Cake Directions:
Cream shortening, add sugar gradually, and cream until fluffy. Blend in well-beaten eggs. Slowly add hot water to cocoa and mix until smooth. Stir to dissolve completely.
Sift flour, salt, soda, and baking powder together, and add to creamed mixture alternately with hot water and cocoa mixture. Blend in vanilla.
Pour into an 8-inch square pan (2-1/2 inches deep) which has been greased and lined with paper. Bake 50 to 55 minutes in a moderate oven (350 F).
When cool, spread Double-Boiler Icing (see below) over top and sides.
Icing Directions:
Combine in top of a double boiler the egg white, sugar, cream of tartar, and water, and beat together just enough to completely blend ingredients. Place over rapidly boiling water, and beat with rotary beater until mixture is white and very light. (Icing is done when it barely holds its shape and is not runny as the beater is pulled out.) This takes 5 to 7 minutes depending on the size of boiler and vigor of beating. Remove from over hot water, and do not beat any more. Fold in the flavoring.
This makes a generous amount of icing for an 8-inch square cake.
Note: If icing becomes “grainy,” add a few drops of lemon juice to make it satiny smooth again.
Fluffy Marshmallow Icing Variation:
Add 3 marshmallows, cut in quarters, to the icing immediately after removing it from heat. Stir until marshmallows are melted and icing is fluffy.

After that, maybe you would like to try a little Snow Ghost Pie!

Old Style Texas Tornado Cake

Texas Tornado Cake

It may go by many names, but this wonderful cake with it's coconut and walnut frosting is moist, delicious, and very easy to make!
Texas tornado cake contains fruit and nuts, with coconut icing. It’s not clear when this cake was invented, or where it’s from. Some insist that “Texas tornado cake” is another name for an “earthquake cake.”

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs 3 cups fruit cocktail with liquid
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup chopped nuts
Frosting:
1 Stick butter
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup evaporated milk 1 cup flaked coconut

Directions:
Cream together sugar, eggs, fruit cocktail, baking soda and flour. Pour into lightly greased and floured 13x9x2-inch cake pan. Mix brown sugar and nuts together and sprinkle onto unbaked batter in the pan. Bake at 325 degrees for 40 minutes or until golden brown on top. While still hot, poke holes into the cake to allow the frosting to seep inside. Ice cake while hot.
Frosting Directions:
Boil margarine, sugar and milk 2 minutes. Stir in coconut. Spoon over cake as soon as cake is taken from the oven. I am sure you will be enjoying this delicious cake just as much as I, and others did!