Today's Case:
Morrison's Cafeteria Devil's Food Cake
Re: Morrison's Chocolate Cake
From: Sally
Date: 12/29/2023, 4:56 PM
To: Phaedrus
On 12/29/2023 11:12 AM, Sally wrote:
Thank you so much for your reply - I just saw this, my apologies.
I appreciate you taking the time. The chocolate cake recipe may
be the layered Devil's Food Cake. I'm not sure. Like the potatoes,
I don't remember anything super "special" about the cake, except
it had that "Morrison's" flavor. Again, thank you for your time.
Happy Holidays!
Hello Sally,
I hope you are having Happy Holidays as well!
I am sending you the Morrison's Devil's food cake recipe. As I said before, the only chocolate cake recipes that I have from Morrison's are the Devil's Food and the German Chocolate Cake. These are, of course, food service recipes, so they have to be modified for home use, which is not in my repertoire. The Devil's Food cake recipe makes 10 layers. That mysterious "quick blend," from reading about commercial baking, to be an emulsified type of shortening which allows cakes and icings to incorporated more air and water. Wesson makes a "Super Quick Blend." "MFB" is also shortening. MFB stands for “made for baking”. It is a silicone free, solid shortening created specifically for retail and grocery doughnut shops. I have no idea whether you can buy these in small quantities for home use. If you try to use the recipe, I'd just use your regular shortening for both.
The cake recipe doesn't say what kind of icing to use. I'm sending you Morrison's Fudge icing recipe, but your own chocolate buttercream might work just as well.
Happy New Year!
Phaed
Morrison's Devil's Food Layer Cake
Ingredients Amount Method
Quick Blend 1 lb 4 ozs Mix for 7 minutes at second speed
Cake Flour 2 lbs 8 ozs
Sugar 3 lbs 10 ozs
Cocoa Powder( dutched) 11 ozs
Milk Powder (whole) 4 ozs
Baking Powder 1 - 3/4 oz
Soda 1/2 oz
Salt 1 oz
Whole Eggs 2 lbs
Vanilla 1/2 oz
Water 10 ozs
Water 2 lbs 2 ozs Add slowly, 2 lbs 3 ozs of water.
Mix for 3 minutes at low speed.
Grease pans with mixture of a ratio of 1 lb of MFB to 8 ozs bread flour.
Scale 1 - 1/4 lbs to each layer.
Baking Temperature: 360° - 375°
Yield: 10 layers
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Fudge Icing
Ingredients Amount Method
Brown Sugar 1 lb 8 ozs Place brown sugar, Pet milk,
syrup or honey, and vanilla in
kettle and heat until luke warm.
Stir constantly to avoid burning,
Syrup or Honey 8 ozs
Vanilla Flavoring as desired
Powdered Sugar 4 lbs Place warm mix in mixing bowl
and add powdered sugar, cocoa
and shortening.
Shortening MFB 12 ozs Mix until smooth.
Allow icing to become firm before slicing cake.
