Aunt Nell's My Cake Recipe – Old Cookbook Show – Glen And Friends Cooking
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Aunt Nell’s My Cake Recipe – Old Cookbook Show – Glen And Friends Cooking This recipe comes from a 1951 Church Cookbook published in California – the …
Makes me think of pecan slices from Joy of Cooking. I liked the older version with no sugar in the "crust".
This type and texture would be perfect with a scoop of ice cream. Like all cakes but this one in perticular.
My video messed up must be me?
They look just like what my mom called “nut smacks”. She was a ladies auxiliary part of the Legion and took them for for events.She would say don’t eat those they’re for the Legion.🙁
My father was in the RCNavy, and because they were moved around so often, all the military wives would make a special effort to socialize & make friends every place they ended up. My mother would get together with the neighbour ladies every few weeks for tea out of good china cups & saucers and many special squares, cakes & cookies. These butter tart squares were a favorite; also graham icing squares, Nanaimo bars & lemon loaf.
My mother-in-law made that, usually at Christmas, but she called them squares. I became addicted to them. Probably because I am also addicted to butter tarts. Absolute winn er to me!
2:16 yo I thought they were tomatoes for a second until he started cracking the shell 🤣
LET'S GIVE A CHEER TO AUNT NELL!😍 I guess the right cheer would be YUM-YUM; NELL NELL!
This kind of reminds me of the Ooey Gooey Butter Cake. Aunt Nell's cake looks super yummy.
Hoping to see some comments on ballpark baking time and how it came out for others. I don't bake much so was worried about the "bake until brown" instruction but wanted to try the coconut version (in a 9-inch metal pie pan). After 16 minutes, mine was quite dark brown, had risen slightly, then started to fall around the edges. It wiggled somewhat when I took it out of the oven but seemed to set as it cooled. Seemed to, but didn't. When I tried to cut out a test piece, it was goop. I covered it with foil, and went back in the oven for another 15 minutes. Cooled again, cut out a piece and tried it. Not bad but super sweet, still goopy and the cookie layer wasn't cooked. I'm sure it's user error, but I'll probably discard what's left and not try again.
is that a 9×9 pan?
in the oven now. i did raisins, hope it comes out okay.
That's called Pecan Pie bars here! A long time oft-requested favorite. Aunt Nell was a smart lady. Thanks for sharing.
Joules has the best job in this show
Watched the video, almost immediately made the 'cake', it's very yummy! Very very sweet so next time I might add a little ginger to the topping. Thank you for the inspiration!
Those community cookbooks are the BEST. The recipes in there are all home-tested. They also reflect how people actually cook (as opposed to how they want others to think they cook).
In New Zealand this is called Dream Cake popular in the mid 20th century but has disappeared from cookbooks of the last 30 years. My Grandmother and Great Grandmother liked it and I've made it before for relatives. Sometimes it is also called American Crunch.
Her version with coconut and walnuts would be delicious! It would have elevated the typical butter tart square. Maybe you could try again..see how it differs? Yum!
we called these Dream Squares. Butter tart filling on shortbread. The best!
My grandmother made almost exactly the same thing and called them "Yum Yums" (and had even less detail in her recipe):
Yum Yums Oven 350
Rub together fine crumbs. Line a pan 8 x 8 with mixture.
(Tip: Whenever you use glass drop temp by 10 degrees.)
1 C Flour
1/2 C Butter
2 T Sugar
On top add:
2 eggs well beaten
1/2 C coconut
1 t vanilla
1 1/2 C Brown Sugar
1 C Nutmeats
1/4 t Baking Powder
2 T Flour
Bake 350 30-40 min Do not over bake – should be soft.
Mouth watering recipe 🤤 Yummy and tasty 👌 my friend
As a hermit, I'm very interested in that "hermit cake" on the page you showed.
Sounds like a pecan tassie in bar form.
In the oven now, I’ll let you know how it comes out.
Glenn, Grandma (your Aunt Nell) used to substitute pecans for the walnuts too! I don't think she ever used walnuts in the recipe. She made individual small "tarts" in small aluminum disposable pans. Usually the crust was formed up the sides of the pan. They were hugely popular at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Hundreds were made be her over the years. Sometimes not at holidays. I have recollections of climbing into her acaia tree with as many as I could liberate and a glass of milk and an old kid's book to spend an afternoon in the summer. The church ladies were mostly neighbors and acquaintances who had lived in the same area since well before WW II.
This reminds me of a cookie variation in the old Betty Crocker cookbook. I saved it as "Coconut Chews" because my family liked the coconut and walnut added to the topping. It had a cookie crust and the oh-so-sweet chewy top, THEN topped with a lemon glaze/icing. Yum. But we cut them into 1 x 2" cookies because that was a lot of sweet.
Question, I've been looking for an affordable relatively good quality for use in my house. Do you have any suggestions or videos on this? Canadian Tire, Home Hardware & Walmart are my locals. That cake looks great! 👍👍
Can i just say I love it when you call us all friends?
Maybe I need to go out more……
In the Midwest, this would be closer to a bar cookie (biscuit, as you say)… Still, looks yummy.
Btw, in my youth, the family would order a box of Florida oranges through the school, They would arrive somewhere between US Thanksgiving and Christmas. I remember them being heavy, juicy, and as sweet as candy. Much better than the ones found in supermarkets now. (And no dyes.)
How long did you bake them?
In my family there is a similar thing. Pie dough crust and for the topping we use honey, sugar chopped walnuts and eggs. My mom told me that the original recipe called for corn syrup instead of honey. We are from Argentina.
Thanks 👍
Looks like a winner🍁
There's cookie on the bottom! that was such a genuine reaction. Lovely Looking cake
I have my Grandmas similar recipe . We always called it Caramel Frosted Squares . Delicious !
They look like if pecan pie was in a brownie form and I am all here for it.
I’m saving this recipe for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Thanks Glen.
Aunt Nell was my grandmother and I miss her, My Cake and meals at her house every day. I remember eating lots and lots of this with walnuts (try Chandler Walnuts) or coconut, not pecans, but this variation is very appealing as well. I watched her make My Cake many times and, just a guess, but I'm betting if she had a food processor, she would have used it to make this. I've never seen the photo you used, but thank you so much for this memory!
Sitting here 15 miles from Carmichael, watching someone in Canada making a Carmichael version of a Canadian recipe. Definitely going to make this one, that looks delicious.
Have you ever tried Hawaiian butter mochi?
Hey! Glen. Don’t you have some Irish cook book? Hope to see them coming to life soon.
So its a bar cookie?
… I was legit over here watching this get put together, and blurted out, "… is that gooey butter cake?? It's gooey butter cake!"
I'd like to dip that in a machhiato.
A butter tart square by another name.
During the holidays, I make a dessert tray with multiple types of bars and cookies. I plan on adding Aunt Nell’s “cake” this year.
take this to the next level by soaking/hydrating some raisins in rum or kahlua for an hour, and then adding them into the filling. Also adding some cinnamon and nutmeg to the flour/butter mixture. but looks good.