American Cake
A red velvet cake from a Southern diner. A coconut layer cake at a church potluck. A rum cake from a Cuban grandmother in Tampa. The American cake is wherever someone’s grandmother decided it was.
Featured american cake recipes
- Red velvet, the Southern original — Iris · Charleston, SC · Cocoa, buttermilk, vinegar, the red is from beets in the original. The cream cheese came later.
- Coconut layer cake, church potluck — Iris · Mobile, AL · Three layers, seven-minute frosting, a snow of fresh coconut. Sliced with a long knife.
- German chocolate cake, the Texas one — Iris · Dallas, TX · German Sweet Chocolate, a coconut-pecan filling. A 1957 newspaper recipe ate America.
- New York cheesecake, dense and tall — Iris · New York, NY · Cream cheese, sour cream, a graham crust. Bake high, drop the heat, do not open the door.
- Pineapple upside-down cake — Iris · Hawaii · Brown sugar, butter, pineapple rings, maraschino cherries. Baked in a black skillet.
- Carrot cake, with cream cheese — Iris · Boulder, CO · Grated carrot, walnut, cinnamon, a tooth of pineapple. Cream cheese to finish.
- Texas sheet cake, fudge-frosted hot — Iris · Austin, TX · A sheet pan of buttermilk chocolate cake, fudge frosting poured warm.
- Cuban rum cake, three-step soak — Iris · Tampa, FL · A bundt, a hot rum syrup, three patient soakings. Tastes better Tuesday than Sunday.
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