Happy Easter! He is Risen! What a glorious time of year when we celebrate the risen Savior!
Tomorrow, we will consume our weight in sugar, with all the chocolate bunnies, the ham with it’s sugary glaze, baked beans, coconut cakes and handfuls of colorful jelly beans. Sometimes, (and this happens maybe once every 5 years) I even get on sugar overload. Randy loves these teacakes, because they are not real sweet…just like having a little spoonful of sugar to pop in your mouth. They can be decorated to look like any holiday, but are especially pretty on Easter dessert tables, with lightly colored colors of Easter. But perfect for your coffee time in the afternoon and because there is no coconut to add even more calories, you can even have a few more pieces….am I the only one that thinks like that?
1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
3 cups all purpose flour
4 large eggs
2 teas vanilla (or 1 full teaspoon of almond extract, which is what I use as it makes me taste like wedding cake)
1 table baking powder
1/2 teas salt
1 cup whole milk
1/2 cup sour cream
Cream Cheese Frosting (if desired) or sprinkle cookies with colored sugar as your topping
Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 13×9″ baking cake pan. and dust with flour.
In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar at medium speed with mixer until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla.
In another medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat until well combined. Beat in sour cream. Spread batter evenly into prepared pan.
Bake for 35 min or until cake tests done. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 min. Remove from pan and cool completely.
Trim off 1/2″ from all the sides. Level cake using a serrated knife to trim off rounded top. Cut cake into 3×2″ cubes. Spoon cream cheese Frosting on top of each cake piece. Garnish with colored sugar or raspberries.
Frosting:
1 8 oz cream cheese softened
3 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup whole milk (add gradually, you might not need it all)
Mix all ingredients and mix until well blended.
Be sure to share the Good News of Christ and His love for us with someone…invite them to church! Have a glorious Easter
Chocolate Castles as wel 