Re: REC: Spice Cake with Maple Frosting

On 4/27/2025 7:58 PM, songbird wrote:

Jill McQuown wrote:
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Maple Frosting
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1/4 c. vegetable shortening
1/2 tsp. salt
1/3 c. pure maple syrup
2 tsp. vanilla
3 Tbs. milk
3 c. powdered sugar
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Sift sugar.  In a large bowl combine shortening, salt, syrup, vanilla
and 1 cup of sugar; mix well.  Gradually beat in remaining sugar and
milk until frosting is smooth and creamy.  If too thin, add a little
more powdered sugar.  If too thick, add a little more milk.  Use
frosting immediately.

    as much as i do love a good vanilla, in this case i
would not use it.
 

Why no vanilla?

If, for some reason, you don't like maple frosting, buttercream works
nicely with the spice cake, too.

    lemon icing is also nice for many spice cakes.
     songbird

Not a fan of lemon icing.  My mother used to bake lemon pound cakes when I was a kid and I didn't care for those, either.
Jill