Dee's Zucchini bread
Source of Recipe
Dee's Zucchini bread from the recipe card that she wrote Paula Anderson
3 eggs
1 tsp. soda
1 cup oil
3 tsp. cinnamon
2 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
3 tsp. vanilla
2 cups grated zucchini
3 cups flour
1/2 cup raisins and or nuts
1 tsp. salt
Beat eggs, add oil, sugar and vanilla.
Stir in zucchini. Mix well.
Sift together flour, salt, soda, cinnamon and baking
powder. Mix well.
Add nuts and raisins.
Place in greased loaf
pans and bake at 325 F. for 1 hour.
Remove from oven; cool 5-10 minutes. Remove cakes from pans; cool completely on Cooling Rack.
Makes 2 loaves. Freezes well.
"I generally never sift anything and I am always
generous with the vanilla and cinnamon.:"
(Dee died on March 14th of this year)
ja Paula
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Q: Lately, I've had trouble removing my bundt cake from the pan after baking. I grease the pan thoroughly and let the cake cool for 2 hrs. Do you have any ideas? It's stuck and won't come out! A: A big issue with bakers seems to be the often occurring problem of getting such cakes, nice as they are, to come out of their Bundt pans in one piece. Part of the trick is to prepare the pans in a certain way: with equal parts of shortening, oil and flour, and use a pastry brush to apply it; get every nook and cranny but not so much that when the cake comes out it has white flour on it in spots. The other part of the trick is to do certain things when unmolding:
(1) Just before the Bundt cake is through baking, place a folded bath towel in the sink and saturate it with steaming hot water. Keep the towel in the sink;
(2) When the cake comes out of the oven, Immediately set it on top of the towel, pan side down, and leave it for ten seconds; and,
(3) Immediately invert the cake onto a cooling rack. The cake will come out clean and whole without sticking. Be careful because cakes are very delicate when hot and can break apart easily. If the cake starts to break apart, leave it in its pan to cool for 20 minutes and try to unmold, again.
COMMENT: Up until now, every cake I've baked in my Nordic Ware bundt pan has always stuck and torn in parts. With your advice on oiling the pan with the special three part mixture followed at the end of baking with the steam-removal method, the cake came out perfectly. Thank you so much for the tips! Anne Pfeiffer 1-11-04, Ask Sarah
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