Baby Food Cake

In just a few days, my dear, sweet, amazing Grandma would be celebrating her 99th birthday. This will be the first year that I can remember, not getting to bring her something sweet to share with her on her special day. I miss her. And I miss her even more since I started typing these words onto this screen.

So. I can’t be with her this year to bring her a pretty cake and pretty package and a pretty card, but celebrate her, I will!!!

In her honor, this week, I will be sharing her sweetness by posting my most memorable dessert recipes from her kitchen. I cooked these with her, on many occasions. She was my teacher. And I don’t just mean my baking instructor.

First up is her Baby Food Cake. I don’t know where she got this recipe, so I cannot credit the source, but I haven’t seen it anywhere else.

Instructions:

Mix together:  

Baby Food Cake

2 cups self-rising flour  (or regular flour plus 1 tsp baking soda)

2 cups sugar

3 eggs

1 cup oil

1 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp. cinnamon or nutmeg (or some of each)

2 jars of baby food ***

Cook in a greased and floured bundt pan on 300 degrees for one hour.

***Grandma only used plums.  Baby food plums are hard to find these days.  Sometimes I am able to find plums and apples.  Sometimes I can’t even find that and have used apples and blueberries or whatever sounds good.  It isn’t the same, but it’s still yummy.  Of course, mine is never as good as hers, anyway.

Please allow yourself to lick the spoon and bowl. 

Grandma had this really neat way of making the flour that she used to flour the pan taste really good.  We never could wait for her cakes to cool. 

 So simple, and soooo moist.  And definitely not just for babies!

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Here’s to you, my sweet Grandma!
Love,
Brandy