Re: REC: Spice Cake with Maple Frosting

Jill McQuown wrote:

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?

  because i like plain maple better.  i'm used to eating
maple sugar candy which has no vanilla added.

  if i wanted vanilla icing i'd make that and save the
maple syrup for something else.

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

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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.

  we make lemon cakes that a lot of people really enjoy but
of course not everyone likes them.  just the way it goes...


  songbird